For almost two years now a most familiar weekend sound drifting across Ruddington has been sadly missing – that of the distant whistles and gentle chugging of steam trains making their way in and out of Nottingham Transport Heritage Centre.Please find our January 2023 update >>HERE<<.In fact, heritage passenger services last ran atGreat Central Railway (Nottingham)(as it was then known) during the February 2020 half term – before all trains were cancelled and the centre closed to visitors due to the initial Coronavirus outbreak. Whilst other attractions at the Mere Way site managed to reopen in August 2020in the wake of the first ‘lockdown’ – and then most of the regular events restarted last year – ‘big’ trains running passenger services – both steam and diesel – have remained conspicuously absent.The railway charity reached that “difficultdecision”initially because of the challenges of introducing the required social distancing and cleaning regimes and also because it depends entirel...
