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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 ...
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 original Sydney station was opened on 26 September 1855 in an area known as Cleveland Fields. It was a temporary timber and corrugated iron building, constructed rapidly in late August to early September 1855, in time for the opening of the line to Parramatta for passenger trains. [3] The first Sydney railway terminus, pictured in 1871
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]
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.
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
Central stations emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century during what has been termed the "Railway Age". [1] [3] Initially railway stations were built on the edge of city centres but, subsequently, with urban expansion, they became an integral part of the city centres themselves.
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.