Mountsorrel Post (52) September 2015

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MOUNTSORREL POST YOUR FREE COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER

SEPTEMBER 2015

www.birstallpost.co.uk

No. 52

Railway to open in October AFTER EIGHT years of hard work and over 80,000 hours of volunteer time, the official opening date of the Mountsorrel railway and the new station on Bond Lane has been announced. The volunteer run Mountsorrel Railway Project (MRP) will be welcoming visitors on the weekend of October 24/25 to ride for the first time on public passenger trains. The Great Central Railway will be operating the trains and using the weekend to assess the level of public interest in the line, which is expected to start operating regularly in 2016. Steve Cramp from the MRP said: “To think back eight years ago to the enormity of the challenge that lay ahead of us, it really does make you realise just how remarkable it is to have achieved what we have. This really was a major restoration which for the most part has been tackled by hand without machinery in the same way that it would have been done in Victorian times. “Over the

Pic: (top) volunteers working on the line & (inset) Onefamily customer Tony Johnson & volunteer Malcolm Law with plans at the MRP

past eight years some 300 volunteers mainly from Mountsorrel and the surrounding villages have got involved with the physical work and it just goes to show what is possible when the community works together. The outstanding memory for me personally is how wonderful it has been to see so many people from different backgrounds, abilities and age ranges working side by side together.

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“Of course, this isn’t the end of the line, we still have much work to do to complete the community heritage centre, which is being built on Swithland Lane. We need volunteer help with that so please get in touch if you would like to get involved.” The official opening will take place at 11.30am on Saturday October 24 by Lord Faulkner, President of the Heritage Railway Association, at Bond Lane, Mountsorrel. Four trains are scheduled for the 24th and six on the 25th, from Mountsorrel to Swithland sidings where it will halt and return. Tickets can be booked from the Continued on page 2

New Mayor MOUNTSORREL COUNCILLOR John Capleton has been appointed Mayor of Charnwood.

He will be supported by Meg Jenkinson as his Mayoress. Cllr Capleton’s chosen charities for the year are Twenty Twenty and the Sorrel Youth Care. The new deputy Mayor is Birstall councillor David Gaskell. Pic: Mayor John Capleton

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