Scenic route
Great Central Railway
Loughborough → Leicester North · United Kingdom
- Distance
- 13 km
- Fastest time
- 50 min
- Top speed
- 40 km/h
- Operator
- Great Central Railway
- Train
- Preserved express steam & Mk1 coaches
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- In service since
- 1899
Britain’s only double-track heritage main line, where two steam expresses can pass at speed just as they did on the last main line built towards the Continent.
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