The Great Central Railway

The following pages show pictures of the old mainline Great Central Railway in the years before closure in the 1960's, and the presently preserved section between Loughborough and North Leicester.

44872 waits to depart Nottingham Victoria on the last day
of through working to London, 3rd September 1966.

I was a frequent traveller on the GCR in the 1960's, and was sad to witness its closure. I was fortunate to purchase the totem shown below, of the station I visited many times, at a sale of railwayana at Stoke in the late 1960's, for the princely sum of £1-10-0.