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  1. Flipper
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    Bridge that Gap: Great Central Railway News

    Well you need to do more repairs now duck, 'cos there is a couple of hundredweight of iron broken off and lying in the bottom of the pit as I type...
    Beitrag von: Flipper, 26 Januar 2015 im Forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
  3. Flipper
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    Bridge that Gap: Great Central Railway News

    There's no room for owt at Swithland, all the useful space is now taken up with an enormous and awful thing of a mushroom hue. The turntable at...
    Beitrag von: Flipper, 24 Januar 2015 im Forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
  4. Flipper
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    Bridge that Gap: Great Central Railway News

    That's a fair assessment I would say, and is the basis of my comment that the South has just as much to offer the North as the other way round....
    Beitrag von: Flipper, 23 Januar 2015 im Forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
  5. Flipper
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    Bridge that Gap: Great Central Railway News

    Perhaps in the short term, to allow for construction traffic . . .
    Beitrag von: Flipper, 23 Januar 2015 im Forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
  6. Flipper
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    Bridge that Gap: Great Central Railway News

    Both parties bring something to the table. I'm sure the Ruddington based group will enjoy having access to a fully signalled, double-track...
    Beitrag von: Flipper, 23 Januar 2015 im Forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
  7. Flipper
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    If you could...

    Monday 25th July 1898. Loughborough.
    Beitrag von: Flipper, 24 Oktober 2014 im Forum: Bullhead Memories
  8. Flipper
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    Bridge that Gap: Great Central Railway News

    Alan, it seems to me that if the GCR / link sit down for the year or two of solid work it would take to do the detailed planning you demand, then...
    Beitrag von: Flipper, 22 Juli 2014 im Forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
  9. Flipper
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    Bridge that Gap: Great Central Railway News

    I'm less familiar with the line north of Loughborough, but they do have a number of larger areas which might have potential, and I believe that...
    Beitrag von: Flipper, 20 Juli 2014 im Forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
  10. Flipper
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    Bridge that Gap: Great Central Railway News

    To be slighty clearer than I was in my previous post, the plc hold a long* leasehold on the line, but Charnwood are the freeholders. *Although...
    Beitrag von: Flipper, 20 Juli 2014 im Forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
  11. Flipper
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    Bridge that Gap: Great Central Railway News

    The DCRT owns Lovatt House, and allows the plc the use of it. The plc rent Green Acres from Leicester City Council, and rents everything else from...
    Beitrag von: Flipper, 20 Juli 2014 im Forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
  12. Flipper
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    Bridge that Gap: Great Central Railway News

    It's much easier to shoot you down in flames by pointing out that there is by no means "plenty of room" at Quorn ! Quorn station yard represents...
    Beitrag von: Flipper, 20 Juli 2014 im Forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
  13. Flipper
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    Bridge that Gap: Great Central Railway News

    A two-road shed on the Down side between Bridges 331 and 332 should be worth a second thought, although it would require building right up against...
    Beitrag von: Flipper, 18 Juli 2014 im Forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
  14. Flipper
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    GCR fails in bid for lottery money

    Quite the opposite I would think ;-)
    Beitrag von: Flipper, 31 Mai 2014 im Forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
  15. Flipper
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    GCR TPO set

    Speaking purely from my own experience on the GCR, I can utterly refute the above ! I turned up out of the blue, knowing nobody on the railway....
    Beitrag von: Flipper, 16 Mai 2014 im Forum: Heritage Rolling Stock
  16. Flipper
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    GCR TPO set

    It's probably worth stating here that Tony is not a member of staff on the GCR, and his pronouncements should not be taken to come from any...
    Beitrag von: Flipper, 16 Mai 2014 im Forum: Heritage Rolling Stock
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    Bridge that Gap: Great Central Railway News

    So far as I am aware, the relevant clauses in the statuory instrument under which they operate the section of the GCR London Extension between 86m...
    Beitrag von: Flipper, 18 Dezember 2013 im Forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
  18. Flipper
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    Bridge that Gap: Great Central Railway News

    Indeed, I am informed that there are currently no plans for Lafarge to move stone traffic along the GCR. Thankfully. Flip
    Beitrag von: Flipper, 18 Dezember 2013 im Forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
  19. Flipper
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    Bridge that Gap: Great Central Railway News

    The only way that "bridging the gap" works to the benefit of all concerned is with a full and complete merger between the two lines. Not two...
    Beitrag von: Flipper, 18 Dezember 2013 im Forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
  20. Flipper
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    Bridge that Gap: Great Central Railway News

    As a registered company, the annual accounts of the GCR's supporting company are a matter of public record.
    Beitrag von: Flipper, 17 Dezember 2013 im Forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
  21. Flipper
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    Bridge that Gap: Great Central Railway News

    Agreed, although of course at the start the track was continuous throughout, from Abbey Lane to Weekday Cross, albeit largely out-of-bounds to the...
    Beitrag von: Flipper, 16 Dezember 2013 im Forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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