Three senior national rail industry figures join the board of the Great Central Railway Development Company

Three senior national rail industry figures join the board of the Great Central Railway Development Company.

The company, established last month is charged with reuniting the two sections of the Great Central Railway in Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire. They are currently divided by 500 metres of missing infrastructure including a bridge over the East Midlands Main Line at Loughborough.

The three new directors are Andrew McNaughton, (Chief Engineer of HS2), Steer Davies Gleave founder Jim Steer, and the head of Major Projects for Bircham Dyson Bell, Robbie Owen. They join the board as non executive directors.

The project could cost up to £15million and would create an 18 mile independent main line railway between the outskirts of Nottingham and Leicester. The route would be available for high speed vehicle testing, to carry freight traffic and heritage passenger services. It would be connected to the national network via an existing junction at Loughborough.