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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]
Arrivals and departures ... Station details: 1832: 1977: Yes: North Yorkshire Moors Railway, National Rail: Gelert's Farm halt ... Leicester North
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.
The Midland Main Line (MML), sometimes also spelt Midland Mainline, is a major railway line from London to Sheffield in Yorkshire via the East Midlands.It comprises the lines from London's St Pancras station via Leicester, Derby/Nottingham and Chesterfield.
During 2021 Leicester City Council successfully applied for £11 million of funding from the Government's ZEBRA scheme, which was used by Arriva Midlands to order 24 Wright StreetDeck Electroliner battery electric buses that were delivered by October 2023 and entered service from April 2024, mainly on the services 47, 48, 50 and 51 to the south ...
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. In addition, the Great Western and Great Central Joint Railway is also shown.
Leicester North station. Reconstruction of the 500-metre (547 yd) Loughborough Gap is underway which will unite the two surviving preserved sections of the GCR. This will result in an 18-mile (29 km) section of the line from Leicester North station to Ruddington station, south of Nottingham, open for heritage trains. Network Rail were involved ...
Such was the case at West Bridge until 1893 when, belatedly, the Midland Railway built a new passenger station around 150 yards away, nearer to the houses on the (then new) Tudor Road. Passenger trains on the stub to Leicester West Bridge ended in September 1928, although coal and oil traffic continued until 29 April 1966 [ 2 ] after which the ...