Rushcliffe Halt on the Great Central - Nottingham

In theory it was easy to get to Rushcliffe Halt. Catch a bus from outside Loughborough station and ask to be set down at East Leake Gypsum Works.

Yet when I got to East Leake I found there were roadworks, with the result that the bus was radically diverted and did not go anywhere near the gypsum works.

I should not have been surprised. After all, I once wrote that:

The Great Central Railway - Nottingham is a bit of a mystery to those of us in Leicestershire. Rather like the Eastern Roman Empire.

But it took more than that to put me off. I walked from the centre of East Leake to Rushcliffe Halt and caught a train.