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The station featured in the Midland Counties Railway Companion of 1840 The façade as seen from London Road in 1856. The first station on the site opened on 5 May 1840. It was originally known simply as Leicester, becoming Leicester Campbell Street on 1 June 1867, and Leicester London Road from 12 June 1892. [2]
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Leicester, ... Leicester Central railway station opened. (closed 1969) 20th century. 1900s.
1831 – First railway in Australia, for the Australian Agricultural Company, a cast iron fish belly gravitational railway servicing the A Pit coal mine. 1831 – First passenger season tickets issued on the Canterbury & Whitstable Railway. 1832 – The Leicester and Swannington Railway opened in Leicestershire. It was the first steam railway ...
The Great Central Railway (GCR) is a heritage railway in Leicestershire, England, named after the company that originally built this stretch of railway.It runs for 8.25 miles (13.28 km) [citation needed] between the town of Loughborough and a new terminus in the north of Leicester.
Leicester Campbell Street station from the Midland Counties' Railway Companion of 1840. While the Derby-Nottingham tracks had been supported on stone blocks, the section to Rugby used kyanised timber sleepers. At Leicester there was another magnificent station in Campbell Street, originally planned as a terminus on a spur from the main line.
Opened on 15 March 1899, the station was part of the Great Central Railway's London Extension linking Nottingham with Marylebone in London. The railway crossed built-up Leicester on a Staffordshire blue brick viaduct, incorporating a series of fine girder bridges. In a detail typical of the high standards to which the London Extension was built ...
The 1930s art deco pub will be knocked down to allow Leicester railway station to be redeveloped. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290 ...
The Leicester and Swannington Railway (L&SR) was one of England's first railways, built to bring coal from West Leicestershire collieries to Leicester, where there was great industrial demand for coal. The line opened in 1832, and included a tunnel over a mile in length, and two rope-worked inclined planes; elsewhere it was locomotive-operated ...