Great Central Railway around Leicester

Superb footage thanks for sharing. At 5.39 Hall No 6911 on 1N63 10.34 Bournemouth West -Bradford Exchange. At 6.00 Scot No 46122 on 1E24 Poole-Sheffield Victoria. Then at 6.10 Standard 5 73000 1N83 Bournemouth West-Newcastle all worked into Nottingham Victoria on Saturday 8th August 1964. I have slides in my collection from the photographer at Nottm Vic that day with captions. Hope this helps Cheers Simon

Better times all together, wonderful footage wouldnt sound have been great.

Great video. I recognise most of the locations, Leicester Central, Abbey Lane Sidings, Belgrave and Birstall, Aylestone. Wonderful stuff!

The great thing about the G.C. you could see any loco on it from halls to a spamcan on football specials

When British railways ruled

Fantastic video 👍🏻 What a shame it got pulled up as it would of a ready made HS2 😊

When they closed this line myself and my friends used to ride our dirt track motor bikes along it from Leicester to Rugby, along the way it passed some great areas to ride on--canal tow paths old claypits,quarries,wastelands ,woods etc - I had a lock up garage just off the line on Marlow Road and lived on Western Road just across from the old "black pad". (seen in the film) previous to having the garage we had to push our bikes over Upperton Road bridge then ride down the tow path, through what is now Aylestone Meadows nature reserve and up onto the line ----- All the pathways at Aylestone were "carved out" by our bikes. Fantastic to see trains on the skyline In some of the shots you can see the flattened oval in the field where we rode before the railway was closed

Great footage

Great shots. I lived near this line as a. Kid.

Most enjoyable video. Having grown up in Leicester born in the 60's this was a reminder of the line that ran behind Humberstone park where Grandad lived.

Superb video of a line that should never have closed , i have a commisioned painting by jill York of a B1 on the famous bowstring bridge in Leicester

Amazing to see this film around the Central area!

Thanks for bringing the sadly missed GC back to life

Great content thanks for the upload, the GC was deliberately run down by the London Midland region,so as to pave the way for the closure due to the poor economic returns ,then hastily signed off for closure by that villain Marples, who later did a moonlight flit to France for tax evasion.
Bad as our current politicians are, so were the lot in the sixties.

Wonderful videos, thanks for sharing.

Do you have any footage of the Belgrave Road Station In Leicester?

Wonderful content and quality, thanks for sharing.

What a shame, it all was closing down, l have fond memories of staying on the station at Qourn & Woodhouse in the early sixties, l would cycle there from Derby. Did travel from Derby Friargate to Nottingham Victoria, onwardsto Grantham.

Another great video of my favourite railway!!

That Merchant Navy wasnt hanging about !