Great Central Railway 50th Anniversary of Closure Gala 3rd September 2016

Stanier Black 5 4-6-0 44984 returns to Loughborough as train 1B01 at 09.20.

It's 50 years to the day that the Great Central route to London Marylebone was severed south of Rugby and the Last Main Line was no longer a main line. The present-day GCR is marking the anniversary by running a timetable as close to that of 3rd September 1966 as possible.