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The Mountsorrel Railway was a network of industrial railway lines that served the granite quarries which dominate the Leicestershire village of Mountsorrel. After being closed in the 1950s, a section was reopened in 2015 as a heritage line run by the Mountsorrel & Rothley Community Heritage Centre.
The Mountsorrel Railway project was originally devised and financed by Railway Vehicle Preservations Limited [16] and aimed to rebuild the Mountsorrel branch off the Great Central railway at Swithland sidings to the working Mountsorrel quarry. In 2006, the branch was essentially intact but the track was lifted in the mid-1960s.
Great Central Railway Plc. 1961 ~ No. 1898 (25788) [51] Mark 1 SK: In 2010, this coach was purchased from the Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway in Scotland, and rebuilt externally by Nemesis Rail to allow conversion into a bar car for the new Pullman style train. Pullman style Umber & Cream. Great Central Railway Plc. 1961 No. S4914 [52] Mark 1 TSO
All the sidings, the Mountsorrel Branch and the second main line had gone, but were eventually restored by the volunteers of the Great Central Railway and the Mountsorrel Railway Project. Swithland Sidings now has the Up and Down main lines, Up and Down passing loops, a complex of sidings for the storage of railway vehicles and the re-instated ...
The closest railway station is Mountsorrel railway station on Bond Lane, just about around a kilometre outside of the village. The station is the terminus of the Mountsorrel Railway , a heritage railway and the branch line of the Great Central Railway .
The Great Central Railway was the first railway granted a coat of arms.It was granted on 25 February 1898 by the Garter, Clarenceux and Norroy Kings of Arms as: . Argent on a cross gules voided of the field between two wings in chief sable and as many daggers erect, in base of the second, in the fesse point a morion winged of the third, on a chief also of the second a pale of the first thereon ...
Rothley railway station is a heritage railway station on the preserved section of the Great Central Railway's London Extension.Built to the standard island platform pattern of country stations on the line, it originally opened on 15 March 1899 and has been restored to late Edwardian era condition, circa 1910.
This is a diagrammatic map of the Great Central Main Line, part of the former Great Central Railway network. The map shows the line as it currently is (please refer to legend), and includes all stations (open or closed). Some nearby lines and branch lines are also shown, though most stations are omitted on such lines if they are closed.