Platform Water Tank At Loughborough Central Station

The platform water tank at Loughborough Central Station is a railway water tank built in 1899 for the Great Central Railway. It is made of wrought and cast iron and features a standard design of a circular tank constructed from wrought iron plates mounted on a cast iron column. This tank is part of a group with Loughborough Central Station and is one of the few examples of such water tanks still in place, with two others located in Loughborough.

Loughborough Central Station was inaugurated by the Great Central Railway as part of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway's London Extension, which was promoted in 1893. The railway became the Great Central Railway in 1897. The station opened on 15th March 1899 and remained operational until 5th May 1969. It was reopened on 23rd March 1974 as the headquarters of the Great Central Railway, a private steam preservation line. The station itself is largely unaltered since its construction in 1898 and continues to operate as a traditional steam railway.