C01E - East Midlands Region

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Personal recollections of railways

Feb 5, 20224 min read

Railway Battles

The story of two ‘battles’ to prevent railways being built in the East Midlands in the nineteenth century..... Perhaps you have been out...

Jan 9, 20224 min read

A Favourite Tunnel

Summary: Glenfield tunnel in Leics and memories of Leicester West Bridge. . . . . . . The subject of tunnels features regularly in...

Oct 30, 20212 min read

A signal achievement

The Rutland village of Ketton, on the Peterborough to Leicester cross-country line, still retains a traditional manual signal box. Of...

Sep 20, 20214 min read

Great Central

The Great Central Railway and Sir Edward Watkin. . . . . . . . When sitting down to write these posts, sometimes there is a dilemma...

Aug 16, 20214 min read

Newfoundpool

A district of inner city Leicester and its origins. . . . . . . In idle moments travelling, masked up, on today’s trains, you can feel...

Jun 28, 20213 min read

Horace Gamble (1922 -2021)

The story of the late Horace Gamble, Leicester railway enthusiast. . . . . . Browsing through the latest railway literature to arrive via...

Apr 12, 20213 min read

‘Swan Lake’ and the ‘Black Pad’

Modelling Leicester South, including ‘the Black Pad’ location. . . . . . . OK, so how many of you are modellers? ‘Not me,’ perhaps, but,...

Sep 28, 20202 min read

Museum at Leicester North station

As some may know there is a project to create a new railway museum at Leicester North station on the Great Central Heritage Railway (the...