Nick Pigott

Jan 7, 2025 | therailwayhub.co.uk | Nick Pigott

Nick Pigott visits a former Great Central Railway tunnel that has been repurposed as the world’s longest indoor vehicle test track. The decision of HS2’s designers not to use the majority of the former Great Central route has not stopped the GCR’s Catesby Tunnel from having a high-speed future of its own. At almost 1¾ miles, Catesby was the longest bore on the Marylebone-Sheffield main line and is once again breaking records as the longest indoor vehicle test track in the world.