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Boyer Street, Loughborough
Image: © Geoff Pick
Taken: 3 Oct 2011
0.05 miles
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Great Central Railway - temporary structure
This is behind the main repair depot and is covering several boilers - presumably to allow work to proceed in the dry.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 25 Jan 2014
0.05 miles
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Great Central Railway - breakdown crane
Seen to the north of the locomotive works is this magnificent Ransomes & Rapier 45 ton breakdown crane built in 1939,
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 28 Jan 2017
0.06 miles
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Great Central Railway - Ransomes & Rapier breakdown crane
This is a runner and had recently undertaken a boiler lift.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 28 Jan 2017
0.06 miles
5
Great Central Railway - close-up of a crane
This is the business end of a Ransomes and Rapier steam breakdown crane. This is in ticket and had recently been involved in a boiler lift.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 28 Jan 2017
0.06 miles
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Great Central Railway - steam crane boiler feed pump
A Mumford of Colchester inverted vertical single cylinder rotative feed pump on a Ransomes & Rapier breakdown crane. The vertical boiler is seen beyond. This crane is workable.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 28 Jan 2017
0.06 miles
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Restorations North of Loughborough (preserved) Station
A view of the DMUs to the right, the centre right one is under restoration ready for trips over the Mountsorrel branch further south. The carriage body is now a bookshop.
Image: © Ashley Dace
Taken: 7 Nov 2010
0.06 miles
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Loughborough Loco shed
Seen off the roadbridge once the line continued north ,where the shed now stands , crossing over the Midland Main line and onwards to Nottingham and the north. Will it ever do so again ?
Image: © roger geach
Taken: 25 May 2009
0.07 miles
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Freehold Street, Loughborough
Peel Drive leads off to the left and ahead is a wall sign for the Taylor Bell Foundry - this is not a historical relic, the foundry is still very much operational.
Image: © Stephen McKay
Taken: 23 Mar 2022
0.07 miles
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Loughborough: John Taylor & Co's Bell Foundry (1)
Owned by the Taylor family since 1784, and with a presence in Loughborough since 1839, the bell foundry now claims to be the largest in the world. This is the view looking westwards along Freehold Street with the campanile tower on the right.
Image: © Nigel Cox
Taken: 17 Jul 2011
0.07 miles