Disused railway flight sim: Market Harborough to Melton Mowbray (GN&LNW Jt Ry)

Using Google Earth satellite imagery, we follow the track bed of the former railway from Market Harborough to Melton Mowbray North. The route was owned and operated by the London and North Western railway, and jointly (from Welham Jn) with Great Northern railway. Intermediate Stations were Hallaton, East Norton, Tilton, John O'Gaunt and Great Dalby. There was a tunnel at East Norton and viaducts at East Norton (now demolished) and John O'Gaunt (preserved). The line opened in 1879 and regular passenger services ceased in 1953.
Satellite imagery is dated 30/5/2021. The background music is Tchaikowsky's 1812 Overture.

[@railwaychristina3192]

Always wondered about what lookec to be an old alignment! Thank you and great Tchaikovsky 😊

[@flymuzza9205]

You're so welcome!

[@terrymoore1830]

Market Harborough to Melton Mowbray via Moscow. Very enjoyable.

[@1258-Eckhart]

Somebody should have told Napoleon that if he'd set out from Mkt. Harborough, he'd only get as far as Melton Mowbray, and he'd have saved himself a ton of trouble. This is a wonderful little railway, which earned its keep (and it DID earn its keep) by transporting coal from the Nottinghamshire coalfields to Rugby and Coventry, there to be devoured by industry. The southern bit after Marefield Junction in later years was treated to the spectacle of passenger trains from Leicester to Peterborough drawn by the magnificent GN Stirling Singles at the end of their lives, the equivalent of running the service today with HST's. The equally magnificent John O'Gaunt (or Twyford) Viaduct on this line is sadly not quite "in preservation", in fact it has allegedly been removed from the Listed Buildings register. I quake in my boots (sadly one thousand miles away) as to its future.

[@flymuzza9205]

Thanks for some fascinating background detail.