Leeds Central railway station
| Leeds Central | |||
| Location | |||
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| Location | Leeds | ||
| Area | City of Leeds | ||
| Operations | |||
| Platforms | 8 | ||
| History | |||
| 1854 | Opened | ||
| 1967 | Closed | ||
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Leeds Central was a railway station in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It was opened in 1854 as a joint station between the London and North Western Railway, the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, the Great Northern Railway and the North Eastern Railway. It replaced the cramped LNW terminus at Wellington Street, which had opened in 1848 with the line to Dewsbury. It closed in 1967, when its services were moved to Leeds City to consolidate all of Leeds train services in one station.
The station was not architecturally distinguished and was built above street level. The site is now a retail park which in turn is to be redeveloped into offices. Part of the Leeds Central station site had also since became a Royal Mail sorting office that is latterly being redeveloped into the West Central residential development and La Lumiere, a 170-metre (560 ft) high skyscraper. A goods lift and a viaduct that approached the station still remains standing as a memorial today.
References
- Cobb, Col. Michael H. (2005). The Railways of Great Britain - A Historical Atlas. Ian Allan Publishing. ISBN 0-7110-3002-2.