Rugby to Leicester in under 20 minutes; try doing that today. I can remember tank engines chuffing along that line at the Rugby end.
@keithbutler22225 ай бұрын
thank you for this...great to finally see this route
@brianwillson9567 Жыл бұрын
These videos are absolutely brilliant.
@MyJon642 ай бұрын
The disused line was my childhood play area back in the early 70's 🙂🙂
@minimaxi8022 жыл бұрын
A useful link for trains from Sheffield, Derby, Nottingham and Leicester to get to London Euston if the line to St Pancras is closed.
@richardsmith12152 жыл бұрын
Amazing view of a railway in an area I thought I knew , well done
@robertstaines94197 ай бұрын
Remember before midland main line was built south of Wigston this was the way all London trains went via West Coast main line or the oldLNWR to Euston Station it is quite a historical line Leicester station was rebuilt 12:23 for London extension and moved from Campbell Street to London Road the only remaining bit of cell street station now is one gate post the platforms were still there until 1970s when the station car park was built they had been used by postal trains for years before but fell into disused when mail rail ended
@andrewtaylor59842 жыл бұрын
The Midland line from Rugby to Leicester was closed at the beginning of 1962 on the understanding that the Great Central would remain open. The first attempt to close the GC came around this time, but it was reprieved. Then came Beeching a year later. The big mistake was to transfer the line from the Eastern to the London Midland Region. The latter region had no use for the line.
@bobtudbury85052 жыл бұрын
why what did beeching do?
@davidoliver22183 жыл бұрын
Great Video, it’s a shame not more of the old line is accessible. Would have made a great cycle path..
@bazmurphy77923 жыл бұрын
It did as far as I know go into a tunnel under the Lutterworth Rd. One end has totally gone now and I believe only the cutting is left on the other. Gills coner tunnel. Great video.
@flymuzza92052 жыл бұрын
Thanks for that Baz, I'll make the change if and when I update the vid
@rickorider3 жыл бұрын
Great footage! It was criminal to destroy this line of brilliant engineering.
@neiloflongbeck57053 жыл бұрын
The entire route duplicated 2 other mainlines that were faster and more convenient for passengers.
@rickorider3 жыл бұрын
@@neiloflongbeck5705 Yes it did seem to be a long way from some villages etc....still seems wrong to destroy it!
@neiloflongbeck57053 жыл бұрын
@@rickorider lots of stations were along way from the villages of the same name. But the GCR served Manchester, Sheffield, Nottingham, Leicester and Rugby all served by either the LNWR or the MR, both of which had faster connections with London due to have shorter routes.
@rickorider3 жыл бұрын
@@neiloflongbeck5705 Thankyou...very interesting!
@andrewtaylor59842 жыл бұрын
@@neiloflongbeck5705 Like me, you have confused the Midland route from Rugby to Leicester with the GC. The Midland route was one of the earliest lines built, and was, for a time, a key route from London to the Midlands and the North. Many people think that the GC duplicated other lines, and whilst it did, up to a point, there are some journeys over that route no longer possible; the Woodford Halse to Banbury link should have been a key north-south route avoiding London, but the regional management of the railways prevented this. Nobody seemed to be able to run inter-regional services. Then came the fateful decision to put the GC under London Midland Region control. One can fairly say, almost without exception, that when a line was transferred from one region to another, the receiving region had no use for it. The LNER made good use of it. At one time there were endless freights at night as well as overnight passenger trains on the East Coast Main Line, including relief trains in summer. The GC offered some relief. In prewar days, there was an overnight train from Marylebone to Newcastle. Several places on the GC now have vastly increased populations since 1966, and could easily support a station today.
@thisisbob10013 жыл бұрын
Great video. Thanks for making
@flymuzza92053 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching!
@nicholasjones7645 Жыл бұрын
So they could build HS2 60 years ish down the line (No pun intended) absolute sacrilege if you ask me !
@englishjona64582 жыл бұрын
Complete crime, that line could serve all them factories
@bussesandtrains1218 Жыл бұрын
sir the great central railway existed and the midland railway still exists
@flymuzza9205 Жыл бұрын
You're right, "Buses and trains 121", but what point are you trying to make here?
@CasinoWoyale10 ай бұрын
10'47": It's Asquith Way, not Askwith Way.
@flymuzza92057 ай бұрын
Whoops! A shameful error!
@rickorider3 жыл бұрын
Could never understand why these lines were not given away to people who would preserve them. Lots of legal stuff I guess or bylaws and rights of way. But why let it just get over grown and destroyed?
@neiloflongbeck57053 жыл бұрын
Depends on the purchase or lease terms. Land owned by the railways could be sold off to support services that were not cut. Land only rented had to go back to the original owners or their heirs and descendents. As for letting things get overgrown, it us not often possible to return cuttings and embankments back to how things were before the railway was built due to cost and the amount if material needed, so leaving things to go back to nature in that way is the easier and cheaper option.
@rickorider3 жыл бұрын
@@neiloflongbeck5705 Thankyou...very interesting....I guessed that there was a lot of legal stuff regarding who owned the land...still seems sad to see these railways vanish.
@andrewtaylor59842 жыл бұрын
They did manage to preserve most of the Loughborough to Leicester section. One of Beeching's dirty tricks was to sell off railway land for far less than its market value. He also sold off locos and rolling stock for less than their written down value. But then, Beeching was an industrial chemist with no accountancy qualifications. If you were to put an accountant in charge of a chemistry lab, he would probably blow the place up.