Great Central Railway Locomotives
This is a comprehensive list of locomotives and rolling stock based at the preserved Great Central Railway at Loughborough, Leicestershire and the Nottingham Transport Heritage Centre near Ruddington.
Read more about Great Central Railway Locomotives: Mainline Steam Locomotives, Industrial Steam Locomotives, Mainline Diesel Shunters, Industrial Diesel Shunters, Mainline Diesel Locomotives, Diesel & Electric Multiple Units, Coaching Stock
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“For us necessity is not as of old an image without us, with whom we can do warfare; it is a magic web woven through and through us, like that magnetic system of which modern science speaks, penetrating us with a network subtler than our subtlest nerves, yet bearing in it the central forces of the world.”
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“Her personality had an architectonic quality; I think of her when I see some of the great London railway termini, especially St. Pancras, with its soot and turrets, and she overshadowed her own daughters, whom she did not understand—my mother, who liked things to be nice; my dotty aunt. But my mother had not the strength to put even some physical distance between them, let alone keep the old monster at emotional arm’s length.”
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In the days of long ago,
Ranged where the locomotives sing
And the prairie flowers lie low:—”
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