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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]
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 ...
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Leicester Belgrave Road railway station; Leicester Central railway station; Leicester West Bridge railway station; Leire Halt railway station; Lilbourne railway station; Long Clawson and Hose railway station; Loughborough Derby Road railway station; Lowesby railway station; Lubenham railway station; Lutterworth railway station
The Leicester passenger terminal had always been of the most basic description, but it was not until 13 March 1893 that the Midland Railway opened a new station there, at West Bridge. [ 28 ] The original Leicester termination of the L&SR continued in use as the West Bridge branch until passenger services were withdrawn on 24 September 1928 and ...
Leicester West Bridge is a former railway station in Leicester, Leicestershire.It was the terminus of the Leicester and Swannington Railway until 1928.. Being one of the earliest public railways, and intended for the transport of coal, the idea of carrying passengers had not occurred to the line's promoters.
The station was also well provided in summer with specials, especially to Skegness and Mablethorpe. The Peterborough trains were stopped as a war economy in 1916. Local traffic was never heavy, and by 1950 there were only two Grantham trains remaining, one of which was a semi-fast with limited stops which connected with the Flying Scotsman at ...
English: Old railway bridges, Leicester. A pair of old railway bridges across the River Soar in Leicester. The bridge further away from the camera, at a slightly higher level than the one in front, carried the main line of the Great Central Railway southwards out of Leicester, heading towards Rugby, Aylesbury and London's Marylebone terminus.