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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 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]
Leicester station could refer to: Leicester railway station, a railway station in Leicester, England, formerly on the MR Leicester Campbell Street railway station, a former name for the above; Leicester London Road railway station, a former name for the above; Leicester Central railway station, a former GCR station in Leicester, England
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
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Vic Berry's well-known stack of Type 2 diesel locomotives, 3 October 1987.. Vic Berry established his Leicester scrapyard in 1973 on the site of what had been the former GC Braunstone Gate goods yard, just south of Leicester Central railway station. [1]
The line left the crowded corridor through Nottingham (and Nottingham Victoria), which was also used by the Great Northern Railway (GNR), then struck off to its new railway station at Leicester Central, passing Loughborough en route, where it crossed the Midland main line. Four railway companies served Leicester: GCR, Midland, GNR, and LNWR.
This is a diagrammatic map of the Great Central Main Line, part of the former Great Central Railway network. The map shows the line as it currently is (please refer to legend), and includes all stations (open or closed). Some nearby lines and branch lines are also shown, though most stations are omitted on such lines if they are closed.