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Tornado is now scheduled to be hauling passenger services on the GCR tomorrow (Thursday 5th Sept 2024)...

Numbers are limited to 30 passengers per journey, spread across a 2 car set. Plus other measures as per 30907's post - face coverings to be worn throughout (including on platforms), trains being cleaned between journeys and so on...

The Great Central Railway is running a DMU service over the next two weekends (5/6 and 12/13 September) operating a Rothley - Leicester North - Nunckley Hill (Mountsorrel Branch) - Rothley circuit: http://www.gcrailway.co.uk/special-events/railcar-running-days/ The two class 101 units are...

Some of the BR built Hawksworth 94xx class had short working lives, with the last ones built not entering service until 1956. If Wikipedia is to be believed, 8447 was in service for only 4 years and 9 months. Similarly, many of the late build BR standards - 'Evening Star' included, went too soon...

Yes, the Emporium at Loughborough Central still deals with VHS tapes...

Syston (on the Midland Main Line) remained open for cement traffic into the 70/80's. The original station had long closed but the reopened Ivanhoe Line station is roughly where the cement sidings were. Beeston (near Nottingham) still has an active infrastructure yard on the site of the former...

Going back to East Leake on the GCR(N) - as has been stated earlier, the goods yard site was lost to housing development years ago and I would imagine difficulties with planning consent for rebuilding and re-opening due to the lack of car parking. East Leake station and Rushcliffe Halt are at...

I regularly use Nottingham City Transport but haven't seen an Inspector on a bus for years...

This event should also see the return to service following overhaul of 8F 48305. Amongst the seven locos in steam, there are two 8F's and a 9F scheduled to be in service...

There doesn't seem to have been a great deal published about the history of railway bus services - the first comprehensive study of this topic that I'm aware of was 'Railway Motor Buses and Bus Services in the British Isles 1902 - 1933' by John Cummings. This was published by OPC in two volumes...

Carlton and Netherfield (both on the outskirts of Nottingham) are less than ten minutes apart by foot, although the limited service at Netherfield is an issue here...

Worth bearing in mind that the full length through platforms (1/3/6/7) sometimes hold up to three sets at the same time, so yes, you'll need to keep moving about to catch everything...