All joined up and somewhere to go

When we visited the Great Central Railway [North] on one of their gala days in 2001, reunification of the two sections of the GCR was still just a glint in the collective eye of its most prominent movers and shakers.

With the bridge now in place at Loughborough, which will eventually allow through running from south Nottingham at Ruddington to Leicester North, the golden spike moment appears to be a lot closer.