A PROPOSAL to reconnect Leicester with Rugby by rail has emerged and is to be progressed under the DfT’s‘Restoring Your Railways’scheme.
Backed by South Leicestershire MP Alberto Costa, the proposed line would use part of the extant Midland route from Rugby for around three miles before crossing the M6 and A5 roads and heading north-east using a new alignment to join with the former Great Central Railway London Extension trackbed, just south of Lutterworth.