 This shift in location placed the new station inside Leicester's city boundary, allowing the 'Leicester' tag to be included in the name, along with unlocking extra funds to assist in the construction.In the 1990s, David Clarke, who setup the Gray Paul Ferrari dealerships in Loughborough and Nottingham, and went on to become president of the GCR, approached the railway about the possibility of double-tracking the line.As a signalling enthusiast, Clarke aspired to operate a signal box on a double track main line, and so the campaign to raise funds to double the section between Quorn and Rothley was launched, with Clarke himself providing a large amount of the capital.