We’re ready to get building again with your help. In 2026 we want to get more of the Reunification project in place.
The ambitious scheme will rebuild 500 metres of missing railway, which will relink two halves of the heritage line, creating an eighteen mile rail corridor through Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire.
Next Summer a further 60 metres of new formation will be built, including crossing a factory car park on a viaduct and a bridge over a minor road (Railway Terrace) in Loughborough. This will add to the three phases of the project which are already complete.
“Now we have planning consent to build all the remaining infrastructure needed to complete Reunification, we want to move forward with physical work. It shows everyone we mean business while ticking off more of the job and locking the funds we’ve raised into concrete. There is a little more work to do before we can begin, like the final design of the new structures but we are confident of starting to build the next sections in 2026, providing we can raise another £900,000.”
Malcolm Holmes, General Manager, Great Central Railway
The estimated cost of the next two sections is £3.5m. Fundraisers and supporters at home and around the world have already secured £2.6m for this work leaving £900,000 to find. Already more than £5m has been invested into delivering the scheme including all the building work so far, securing the planning consent and ground investigation work.
“We are moving forward all the time with our plans to reunify but we know everyone wants to see more railway appearing – and so do we! Building in 2026 is a really exciting prospect as we chase the remaining funds we need. Thank you to everyone who makes a donation because every pound will really count towards getting contractors on site”.
Andy Fillingham, Great Central Railway (Nottingham)
Supporters can donate on line and even set up regular standing orders at www.gcrailway.co.uk/unify
Or you can download our appeal leaflet here and use it to donate through the post using a cheque, made payable to DCRT with ‘Reunification’ written on the rear. Send it to Lovatt House, 3 Wharncliffe Road, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 1SL.
Here we grow again, or at least we can and will, with your help. Thank you.
