Bells, Trains and More!

Bells they are a-ringing, and things they are a-changing down at the Bellfoundry!

The only remaining dedicated bellfoundry in the country is entering a new phase of its life! Thanks to funding initiatives over the past few years, amongst other things, the Bellfoundry Museum has had a makeover!

Staff from the Bellfoundry Trust have been working hard on developing an amazing new offer designed to share with you some of the history of one of Loughborough's most important industries, where you can also experience the thrill of metal casting.

As if that weren't enticing enough, the Bellfoundy Trust has teamed up with another of Loughborough's most important and exciting heritage sites to offer you an unforgettable day out! Read on to find out more!    

Museum & Tours

Come and learn about a key part of Loughborough’s rich history at Taylor’s Bellfoundry Museum, home to the UK’s last bellfoundry.

At our Museum, you will not only learn about Taylor’s 250-year legacy, but also about the critically endangered heritage craft of bellfounding. Did we forget to mention that there are plenty of bells to hit? We are not the loudest museum in town for nothing!

Keen to see the bellfoundry process and its craftsmen in action? Then a bellfoundry tour is for you! Led by our experienced and knowledgeable tour guides, come and be immersed in our Victorian factory, watching history being made.

*** New for 2025! ***

** All our tickets now include an annual pass for our Museum! **

* Pay once and get a year’s worth of visits and hitting bells! *

We look forward to welcoming you to our Museum, and on our tours!

A visitor to the museum striking one of the bells on display 
©Reproduced by permission of the Bellfoundry Trust

Visitors enjoying a tour around the Bellfoundry works 
©Reproduced by permission of the Bellfoundry Trust

Bellfoundry Story

How did John Taylor come to set up a bellfoundry here in Loughborough?

The Taylor family had been bellfounding in both Huntingdonshire and Oxford since the 1780s. In 1838, the Loughborough Parish Church put out an advert for a bellfounder to re-cast and re-hang their bells. But the job had to be done in Loughborough itself. John Taylor applied and won the job, moving his bellfoundry up to Loughborough. He originally set up shop in Packhorse Lane, before, 20 years later, buying a piece of land (known as the Cherry Orchard) and building a purpose-built bellfoundry, which still stands today.

Taylor’s have not only left their mark on Loughborough as a town, with both the Parish Church and the War Memorial Carillon ringing Taylor bells, but in the UK and all over the world, there are Taylor bells that will ring for many centuries to come. We have even cast the largest and heaviest church bell in the UK. Want to know more? Why not pop into our Museum to learn more about Taylor’s legacy and the bellfounding process!

John Taylor ©Reproduced by permission of the Bellfoundry Trust

Saturdays with the Bellfoundry & Great Central Railway

Trains & bells make the perfect Saturday trip out in Loughborough!

Come and see two of Loughborough’s industrial heritage sites in one day.

On the first Saturday of the month, Taylor’s Bellfoundry Museum and the Great Central Railway are teaming up to offer an all-day joint ticket to visit both sites.

For £12.50 you get:

*  Access to Taylor’s Bellfoundry Museum

*  Access to the Great Central Railway’s museum

*  Hot drink & cake at the Great Central Railway’s café

You can book your tickets here:

https://loughboroughbellfoundry.merlintickets.co.uk/ (click on Events) [1]

We look forward to welcoming you to our Museum!

A perfect Saturday spent at the Bellfoundry Museum and the GCR 
©Reproduced by permission of the Bellfoundry Trust

Friends of the Bellfoundry

This year, we are re-launching our membership scheme, Friends of the Bellfoundry.

This membership is perfect for anyone who enjoys bells and bellringing, industrial or local history!

For £50 a year, you get:

*  Access to a members-only Casting Tour (once a year)

*  Free Museum entry for you AND your party

*  15% discount in the Museum Gift Shop

*  An exclusive joining gift

·   Your membership fee goes to the Loughborough Bellfoundry Trust. We are a charity based at Taylor’s Bellfoundry, whose aim is to protect the Grade II* listed buildings, and inspire a love for bellfounding, its history, and associated crafts for generations to come.

For more information or to express interest, please contact us at info@belltrust.co.uk

Volunteering

If you love engaging with people as much as you love history, why not consider volunteering with us as a tour guide? Come and join our friendly group of volunteers who can quickly bring you up to speed on all things bells. All you need to bring is a strong voice and confidence talking to groups. Tours take place weekday mornings and afternoons and the first Saturday of every month. [2]

All volunteers get free access to our Friends scheme. Contact us on info@belltrust.co.uk

A volunteer getting hands-on with a tuning fork 
©Reproduced by permission of the Bellfoundry Trust

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NOTES

[1] You can find out more information about what’s happening down at the Great Central Railway on the GCR’s website: https://www.gcrailway.co.uk/

[2] You can find the answers to some frequently asked questions (FAQs) about volunteering on the Trust’s website: https://belltrust.co.uk/volunteers/

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About the author

This post has been written by members of the Bellfoundry Trust, a small team dedicated to running the Bellfoundry Museum, and the Bellfoundry Tours, as well as looking after the Volunteers who dedicate their time to ensuring visitors to the Bellfoundry experience the best possible visit.

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Please note, the views expressed in this Guest Blog Post are the views of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the blog owner, lynneaboutloughborough.

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Loughborough's Heritage Open Days Success

I'm sure you're all aware that the past couple of weeks have been Heritage Open Days, a time that sees many heritage buildings that aren't usually open, allowing the public access. Or, sites that normally make a charge. throwing open their buildings for free, or putting on something special for the Open Days.

This year, some Loughborough venues got together to offer a greater contribution to Heritage Open Days than has happened in previous years. Loughborough's Heritage Open Weekend took place last weekend, and many buildings, groups, and organisations took part, offering free art sessions, free roadshows, free guided walks, free demonstrations, or free access to archive material.

On Saturday morning, I was lucky enough to be able to do a quick tour of some of the town centre offerings, and it was lovely to see lots of pink bunting around! Sorry I didn't get as far as the GCR, the Bellfoundry, or the Grammar School. 

On Saturday afternoon I went on a guided walk related to Zeppelins, and on Sunday, I spent a very sunny morning walking a group of people around some of Loughborough's Art Deco heritage, and a very wet afternoon showcasing some of our heritage sites!

Thank you so much to everyone who was involved in providing such a variety of places to visit!

Here's some very quickly-taken photos from the weekend.

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Q is for Q 30541

In ‘Loughborough A-Z’ for the entry under letter ‘Q’ I chose to write about Charles Quastel, the head of the Spiritualist movement who came and opened Loughborough’s Spiritualist church on Steeple Row in the 1960s; the Queen’s Anniversary Prize, which our university has won numerous times; Quercus Petraea, because we in Loughborough are surrounded by these oak trees, and the Quorn Hunt, because so many of Loughborough’s gentry were part of this.

So, for today’s Q I contemplated writing about a local family going by the surname Quail, but eventually decided to appeal to the railway enthusiasts, by writing – very briefly – about the Q class locomotive, most especially Q 541, also known as Q 30541.

Apparently, the Q class was designed by Richard Maunsell, and was actually his last design. Q 541 was built in 1939 at Eastleigh for Southern Railway, and began its life at Guildford, but only stayed there for 8 years, before being moved to Three Bridges, which I believe is in Crawley. The railways were nationalised in 1948, following The Transport Act of 1947, and Q 541 was re-numbered to Q 30541.

In 1953 the loco moved briefly to Stewarts Lane in Battersea, before spending the next 10 years in Bournemouth. In 1963 it moved back to Guildford, after a few months in Basingstoke, but its life in it the place of its original home was short-lived as the engine was withdrawn in late 1964, and found itself at the scrapyard in Barry.

I don’t know what happened to it for 8 years, but in 1973 it was bought by a group of enthusiasts, and restoration took place at an engineering factory in Gloucestershire. Once some of the work was completed, the loco moved to the Bluebell line in Sussex, where restoration was continued, and finally completed in 1983. It was re-numbered with its original 541 number, and painted in Southern Railways black as it had been originally.

Sorry if I’m preaching to the converted, but railway locomotives have a kind of MOT test for engines, which once issued last for 10 years, after which the engine has to be fully overhauled, a process which can take some time, and indeed this is what happened next to Q 541. Withdrawn for its 10-year overhaul in 1992, it actually took 22 years until the engine was ready to run again, and in 2015, painted in BR black and numbered 30541, it returned to service on the Blubell Line.

So, what exactly does this have to do with Loughborough, other than the fact that we have the wonderful Great Central Railway in our town? Well, Q 30541 has paid many visits to other railways across the country, like Nene Valley, Severn Valley, and Mid-Hants, and on 4th and 5th February 2017 the engine visited Loughborough! As far as I know it was returned safely, but is now again subject to an overhaul.

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Great Central Railway Through Loughborough

Here's another fascinating guest post for the blog's 10th anniversary! 

I've known Nick for a while now - we often seem to be at the same heritage event, or in the same heritage meeting - but I have no idea of actually how long we've known each other! Anyway, I am pleased to be able to share with you Nick's guest post on my blog, in which we hear about his memories of visiting Loughborough's Great Central Railway with his father, and especially their encounter with 34039, aka 'Boscastle'! What a lot of work goes on behind the scenes at the GCR, so visitors can enjoy a great day out!      

 The Great Central Railway through Loughborough:

some personal thoughts and connections

Nick Shaw

There’s much talk at the moment about the billions being spent on HS2 to improve rail links between London, the Midlands and the ‘Northern Powerhouse’. A high-speed rail link is apparently needed to bring Britain’s largest economic regions (London, the Midlands and North-West) together.

Yet turn the clocks back 130-or-so years and exactly that was proposed by Edward Watkin, an ambitious industrialist and chairman of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway [1]. Having already achieved a network of railways to connect the North West with the coalfields of Nottinghamshire, Watkin had a grand plan to extend his railway not only to London, but also to continental Europe via a Channel Tunnel.

Construction of his ‘London Extension’ started in 1894 and in 1899 the Great Central Railway opened with Marylebone as its magnificent London terminus. To fulfill the aim of being a high-speed link the line was built to a continental loading gauge (ready to accommodate trains to and from Europe), no sharp curves, no steep gradients, and no level crossings. It was the original HS2 - albeit 130 years early.

The Great Central was subsequently amalgamated into the LNER and, post-nationalisation, into the Eastern Region of British Railways. The 1950s saw the growth of vehicle movements by road and the GCR was run-down as services were transferred to the Midland line.

In 1963 the smaller country stations such as Rothley and Quorn & Woodhouse were closed, but the Beeching Report of the same year saw the death knell of the line. On 3rd May 1969, the last train departed from Loughborough Central and the line closed.

In some ways it was an opportunity missed, as the line had other features which contributed to it being a fast and safe railway. For example, take a visit to the current Loughborough (Midland) Station and you’ll see that the platforms are built each side of the tracks, necessitating buildings such as waiting rooms having to be built on both sides, as well as attendant dangers of having to cross the running lines.

The Great Central had a different plan. Rather than building the platforms around the tracks, at the smaller stations they built the tracks around the platform, meaning only one set of buildings was required and there were no issues in crossing the tracks. Our local stations at Loughborough Central, Quorn, Rothley and the now-demolished Belgrave and Birstall were all built to this genius pattern. No wonder the motto of the GCR was ‘Forward’.

On that final day in 1969, my father climbed a few steps up the water tower at the end of the platform at Loughborough Central to photograph the last train departure, with a young 8-year-old in shorts looking on [2]. That 8-year-old was me – and thus started a now 54-year interest in the fortunes of the resurgent Great Central Railway.

The last train leaving Loughborough Central before closure May 1969, Nick in shorts looking on!

As that last train pulled out of Loughborough, a group of enthusiasts were forming the Main Line Preservation Group with the aim of restoring and preserving the Leicester to Nottingham section, with Loughborough Central as its base.

The group set about the early stages of restoring the station and then in January 1973 staged its first operating day with one industrial steam locomotive giving demonstrations. My father and I were there to record that day too, and this year the GCR is proudly celebrating 50 years of operations, still looking ‘Forward’ to what they hope to achieve in the future.

January 1973, opening weekend at the GCR

The first mainline locomotive to arrive at Loughborough was West Country Pacific 34039 ‘Boscastle’, in a totally unrestored state from Barry scrapyard. On display on that opening day in 1973, my father photographed the loco with yours truly inspecting the front buffers of the rusting hulk.

The unrestored Boscastle at the GCR opening weekend, January 1973, with a young Nick at the buffers

Robert Nelson No.4 at the GCR in January 1973

The herculean task facing the groups and volunteers trying to restore these magnificent engines is that it takes hundreds of thousands of working hours to strip them down, clean and repair every part and then slowly put it all back together again. This process can take years, dependent on the resources and finances available.

Steam locomotives are very high maintenance. After all, they are basically a huge kettle where the boiler holds heated water to a pressure of 250psi, with all the attendant risks that brings. Following years of restoration, the locos are granted a 10-year certificate, at the end of which they have to be stripped down to the last nut and bolt for the whole process to start again.

The current GCR fleet of steam locos at Loughborough comprises 15 engines, of which at any one time around 5 or 6 are operational with the remainder going through that cycle of repair and restoration. You have to take your hat off to the committed volunteers in the loco shed who give so much time to keep the engines running.

In Boscastle’s case, it took nearly 30 years of painful hard work until the loco was launched into service in early 1992, yet just eight years later it had to be withdrawn pending another full overhaul.

Boscastle finally in steam at the GCR in January 1992

The Flying Scotsman leaving Loughborough's GCR late 1992

It’s sobering that in its 50-year sojourn at Loughborough, Boscastle has spent 42 years under restoration or repair. As part of the GCR’s 50-year anniversary, the partially restored Boscastle was wheeled out in June and I took the opportunity to recreate the photograph of me standing by the front buffers – with a little less hair these days.

A restored Boscastle pictured in June 2023, with Nick again at the buffers!

Throughout the last 50 years the modern-day GCR has adopted the ‘Forward’ motif and pushed through with some big infrastructure projects, making it the only double-track heritage main line railway in the UK. Apart from casual visitors and enthusiasts, this also makes it a valuable testing centre for new locomotives and vehicles as the modern-day national railway continues to evolve. Special dispensation allows steam locos to run at up to 60mph and diesels to 75mph under strict conditions, but this can also be a valuable source of income for the line.

What it lacks at the moment is a rail connection to the national network, but the current project to re-unite the Loughborough to Leicester section with the Loughborough to Ruddington northern section [3] will see the creation of an 18-mile railway, including that all-important connection to the national network to bring in locomotives, charters and other vehicles without the need to transport them on a low loader.

This ‘Bridging the Gap’ project is well-advanced with a bridge already in place over the midland main line and the rusting A60 bridge next to the Brush works having been replaced last year [4].

When will it all be completed? Who knows, but it could well be within the next three or four years. In which case, which loco will pull the first train over the gap to reunite the two sections? I guess it could be any from the fleet, but I know that a good few people who have followed the GCR’s fortunes over the years will be hoping it’s 34039 Boscastle. And I hope to be there to witness it – and it will be before HS2 is finished.

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Notes

[1] There is a society dedicated to Sir Edward William Watkin, called the WatSoc, where you can find lots of information about Sir Edward and the family. An entry for him also appears in 'A-Z of Loughborough', and there are numerous books written about him, for example, that by Canon John Neville Greaves, called 'Sir Edward Watkin 1819-1901: the last of the railway kings'

[2] The Platform Water Tank and both the South and the North Water Tanks were added to the Register of Listed Buildings, and assigned Grade II status in 2005.

[3] 'Bridging the Gap', i.e. the actual railway bridge that was installed in November 2017 is the final entry in 'Loughborough in 50 Buildings'. The whole project to link with Ruddington is now branded under the title 'Reunification', which has its own website.

[4] 'Bridging the Gap', i.e. the actual railway bridge that was installed in November 2017 is the final entry in 'Loughborough in 50 Buildings', and lynneaboutloughborough posted some photographs of the replacement of the bridge near Brush. 

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About Nick

Although Nick now lives in Wymeswold, he works in the centre of Loughborough, and can often be seen around the town, and in Charnwood on official business, sporting the yellow high-vis jacket we so often see these days!

Nick seems to think he is a bad cricket player, a bad football player, and average cyclicst: of course, I can't possibly comment, but I would imagine he puts his all into whatever he does! 

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New railway bridge

Work on the railway bridge over the A60, close to The Brush.

The work that has recently taken place to demolish and rebuild the A60 bridge, and make it higher, is part of the Reunification of the Great Central Line, which would see the Leicester to Loughborough steam train travel all the way to Ruddington. The project is covered on the GCR's own webpages, but below are some of my photos from the recent work to replace the A60 bridge. I knew it was being demolished and replaced with a higher bridge, but what I hadn't realised was that the increase in height was only to be 3 inches!! 

Photos from 1st October 2022 on the first weekend of the works. By the time I got there, the bridge was already demolished!!!! And, it wasn't possible to get particularly close to the action, as both the road and the footpath were closed, and even the footpath by the side of Brush was out of bounds.

Here's the bridge in situ, in 2019, heading towards Nottingham

Here's the bridge in 2020, heading into Loughborough

Looking towards Loughborough

Road closed from Nottingham into Loughborough

Digger in action

Digger in action

Digger in the distance!

Road closed going out of Loughborough 

A couple of weeks later, on 15th October, I went down to see how the work was progressing, and at least this time I could actually get closer!

Looking from Loughborough towards the bridge

The former bridge adjacent to the footpath to the Meadows (going towards Nottingham)

Remains of the bridge opposite the footpath to the Meadows, heading towards Nottingham

As above

Close-up of the remains next to the footpath

Looking towards Loughborough

During the works, the road was either closed, or there were temporary traffic lights in action. The work was a little delayed, so I popped down again on 21st November to see what was happening - lots!

Looking towards Nottingham

In the direction of Nottingham

Looking towards Loughborough

Next to the Hermitage Brook

Looking along the track towards the GCR station

My final visit was on 27th November, and I was pleased to see that essentially, the work has been completed.

Looking from close to the Brush

Looking towards Nottingham

Under the bridge

Looking towards Loughborough

Under the bridge coming towards Loughborough

Looking towards Nottingham

Looking towards Nottingham

Looking towards Loughborough

Looking towards Nottingham

Interestingly, this bridge is very, very similar to the one that was replaced in late 2017, which is close to the civic amenity site.

The bridge near the civic amenity tip 

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