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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 ...
Leamington Spa railway station; Leeds railway station; Leicester railway station; Lewes railway station; Lichfield Trent Valley railway station; Lincoln railway station; Littlehampton railway station; Liverpool Central railway station; Liverpool Lime Street railway station; Liverpool Street station; London Bridge station; London King's Cross ...
"Central Station" is a common proper name for a railway station that is the central or primary railway hub for a city, for example, Manchester Central, [13] which is not to be confused with those stations in which "Central" appears in name not because they were "central" in the sense above but because they were once served by railway companies ...
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.
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]
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
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 Great Central Main Line (GCML), also known as the London Extension of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (MS&LR), is a former railway line in the United Kingdom. The line was opened in 1899 and built by the Great Central Railway running from Sheffield in the North of England , southwards through Nottingham and Leicester to ...