THE project to reunify the surviving Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire sections of the Great Central Railway (GCR) reached its latest milestone in the early hours of Saturday, October 1 when work got underway to replace a bridge over a road in Loughborough.
The original GCR bridge over the A60 Nottingham Road, in the northeast corner of the town, was 125 years old and was showing signs of old age with corrosion evident and was deemed to be beyond economic repair. It has also been struck many times by high-sided vehicles.