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Trains Again! – Great Central

With lockdown gradually easing in the UK, our heritage railways are considering how to reopen safely. One of the first to do so is the Great Central Railway at Loughborough, so I spent the day experiencing their ingenious solutions.

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Steam Punk at the Great Central

Our attention was recently caught by an advert for a steampunk event at the Great Central Railway in Leicestershire. Steampunk is a Victorian Sci-Fi genre, inspired largely by the technology of the Industrial Revolution during the 19th Century. So, what better setting for such an event than a heritage railway with its own late-Victorian influences. We ordered our tickets straight away!

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