Railway museum plans
The Great Central Railway has lodged a £10million bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund, for the funding of a new railway museum in Leicester.
£10 million bid lodged for new railway museum
The Great central Railway have submitted a bid for £10million to the Heritage Lottery Fund. for the building of a new railway museum in Leicester.
Filled with priceless artefacts from the national collection, the new attraction will be based at GCR's terminus in Leicester North.
Plans for the new museum have been described as "world class" and Managing Director of the Great Central Railway Bill Ford said:
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