Thanks - I don't doubt, and this is all what I would expect. But ... this is something that should be on a high profile web page - linked to and from the GCR, Unification, EMRT and NHR web sites - not a forum post.Hi etr 221.
I think the reunification videos connected to the website do explain in more detail the various benefits of the project - both to the GCR and to the NHR as well as the East Midlands as a whole. Essentially though, reunification gives direct access for the GCR to the main line for possible charters, testing contracts and locomotive servicing. It creates an 18 mile Main Line Heritage railway which is unique. It provides two destinations from Loughborough GC. It gives a range of destinations from Ruddington. The sum is greater than the parts.....and it fulfils that driving ambition of many thousands of people to have a preserved Main Line between two major cities - Leicester and Nottingham. It must also be remembered that we are very fortunate to still have so much steam on the main line....but it sometimes hangs from a thread...
And like fgwrich I like forward to seeing it. But it really needs a greate degree of cooperation and - dare I say - unification than is apparent to project the vision, achieve the vision and show off the vision