• Project Summary
• Project Description
• Business Potential
• History of MCR

Project Summary

• A nationally unique investment in a sustainable rail infrastructure network with large scale carbon emission savings, general environmental benefits and widespread political support as well as support from the Regional Growth Fund.

• A private 30 mile rail network with a direct connection to the West Coast Main Line at Stoke on Trent.

• Direct access to major quarries in the Staffordshire Moorlands.

• Potential to provide direct rail access to Alton Towers Theme Park.

• The town of Leek reconnected to the national rail network.

• Significant involvement in the release of several major land development projects.

• A new nationally significant railway engineering test facility.

• A major involvement in the expansion of the Churnet Valley Railway to one of the UK’s top heritage railways.