Great Central to close during March 2023

THE Great Central Railway is to shut for four weeks in March 2023 while the steel decks of the bridges immediately to the north and south of Quorn & Woodhouse station are replaced.

Both bridges have been subject to speed restrictions.

GCR interim general manager Richard Patching said: “This work will close the whole railway during that time. The loss of income will be considerable, besides the bridge reconstructions themselves. The bridges are being tackled together as the work will involve very specialist machines and cranes being transported to GCR and it would make no sense to do this twice over.”

The refurbishment of the Loughborough locomotive shed, which has been in progress for more than three months, will continue until well into next year. “Regrettably, this project is now considerably more challenging and costly than had been understood previously,” said Richard.