THE Great Central Railway (GCR) plans to push ahead later this year with constructing the next stages of its project to reunify the surviving Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire sections – and this March every pound donated to the scheme will be matched by another from a donor up to the value of £150,000.
Three phases of the sevenphase project are now ready for track to be laid on them.
These include a new bridge to carry GCR heritage trains over the Midland Main Line, the refurbishment of the bridge over the Grand Union canal and as of November 2022, the replacement bridge over the A60 road.
Ongoing fundraising means there is more than £1.4 million pounds ready to spend on the next phase of the work – the factory flyover. Expected to cost around £2.8 million, it is actually two stages of the project combined; a bridge across a factory car park and another to cross Railway Terrace Road in Loughborough.