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What a Beauty!! Alycidon at Loughborough Central Station on the GCR
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Class 55 (Deltic) No. 55009 "Alycidon" - (owned by the Deltic Preservation Society) - standing on Platform 2 at Loughborough Central Station on the Grand Central Railway (GCR) during the Spring Diesel Gala on Friday 29th of April, 2022 -
I was going to entitle this thread "Where are the Men of Vision", simply because the person that I had in mind was the late, great Sir Edward Watkin (26 September 1819 – 13 April 1901) - who, as far as I am concerned, was one of the last and, indisputably, among the greatest visionaries that this planet has ever known. You can do a Google search, just as easily as I can. But, just to make it easy for you, you can click on this, if you want to know more: Wikipedia - Sir Edward Watkin Frankly, I really don't mind whether the next great visionary - if ever there is one - is, female, male, gender neutral, LGBTQ (or whatever they call it) - as long as they revive HS2 and basically reroute it, as closely as humanly possible, along the route of the former London Extension of the Great Central Railway. All linked in to the Channel Tunnel, of course - exactly as Sir Edward Watkin had it all schemed-out in the 1890's!!
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View of the lines - the Great Central Railway about a mile South of Loughborough
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A train passing under the bridge which carries a footpath from the A6 to Charnwood Water, during the Spring Diesel Gala on the heritage Great Central Railway, Leicestershire, England Photo taken from the garden of The Cedars Hotel and Restaurant in Cedar Road, just off the A6 - about a mile South of Loughborough Central Station -
Class 37 Diesel 37714 on the Great Central Railway
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The Spring Diesel Gala on the heritage Great Central Railway, Leicestershire, England Class 37 diesel, 37714 heading South out of Loughborough on the up line, passing D123 with a train of four old heritage railway coaches, waiting at a signal on the down line Photo taken from the garden of The Cedars Hotel and Restaurant in Cedar Road, just off the A6 - about a mile South of Loughborough Central Station -
Spring Diesel Gala on the Great Central Railway
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The Spring Diesel Gala on the heritage Great Central Railway, Leicestershire, England Class 45 diesel, D123 waiting at a signal on the down line with another diesel-hauled train passing on the up line. Photo taken from the garden of The Cedars Hotel and Restaurant in Cedar Road, just off the A6 - about a mile South of Loughborough Central Station -
From the album: Bring Back the Trains!
The Spring Diesel Gala on the heritage Great Central Railway, Leicestershire, England Class 45 diesel, D123 hauling a train of old coaches on the down line, heading into Loughborough Photo taken from the garden of The Cedars Hotel and Restaurant in Cedar Road, just off the A6 - about a mile South of Loughborough Central Station
