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Wellington Station Leeds - DNT00129
Built by the Midland Railway in 1846, with subsequent re-builds, it was the first station in Leeds centre. Up until the building of New Station in 1869 it was shared by the London & North Western Railway but thereafter it was used exclusively by the…
Leeds Wellington Station Entrance 1926 - DNT00130
However all is not what it seems. The structure across the station entrance is a replica of the old Moot Hall and has been erected as part of the tercentenary celebrations of Leeds being granted a Royal Charter of Incorporation in 1626. The actual…
New Station, Leeds - DNT00131
The station concourse Seen here late 19th or early 20th century and before ticket barriers were erected to the right of the newsagents. The station was accessed by New Station Street off Boar Lane. When it was built in 1869 by the LNWR and NER it…
Leeds New Station Train Shed - DNT00132
Seen here late 19th or early 20th century looking westwards with an NER train on the right. This view and the bridge across the lines remained little changed until into the second half of the 20th century. The platform numbering is not sequential.…
New Station, Leeds - DNT00133
A North Eastern Railway Leeds to Edinburgh service about to depart for York from New Station. The roof sign with its back to the station advertising Waddington Pianos was on New Station Street, off Boar Lane, which was the access to the station from…
Leeds City Square Looking West - DNT00134
On the right the imposing general Post Office building which still stands today although no longer the post Office. On the left just out of view to the front of the tram was the entrance to Wellington Station whilst looking ahead is Wellington Street…
Leeds City Square Looking East - DNT00135
In the centre the War Memorial which was dedicated in 1922. To the left with the clock is the now demolished Royal Exchange Chambers and on the right the old Midland Railway’s Queens Hotel and to the right of that the gates into Wellington Station.…
Holbeck Stations, Leeds - DNT00138
Holbeck Low Level Station seen here and Holbeck High Level Station on the higher level line above it were built by separate railway companies and operated as separate stations up until nationalisation in 1948. The only external access was by the…
Leeds City Centre Railway Stations 1906 - DNT00139
Extract from OS Map Yorkshire CCXVlll.NW - Revised 1906; Published 1909.
Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland. http://maps.nls.uk/index.html
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Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland. http://maps.nls.uk/index.html
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC-BY-NC-SA)…
River Aire under Leeds Station 2006 - DNT00142
The River Aire running under Leeds Station through the ’Dark Arches’, a Victorian labyrinth of vaults and arches which support the station.
Osmondthorpe Station, Leeds - DNT00144
The station, or probably a halt, on the Leeds Selby and York line was opened in 1930 by the LNER between Marsh Lane and Cross Gates stations following construction of a large housing estate. It was closed in 1960. The station is seen here possibly…
Cross Gates Station Leeds - DNT00145
Originally on the Leeds & Selby Railway which opened in 1834 from Marsh Lane which was the first station in Leeds. However due to the machinations of George Hudson, the ‘Railway King’, it fell into disuse between 1840 and 1850 and the line was not…
Cross Gates Station - DNT00146
Station staff posing for the camera on the ramp from the entrance building down to the eastbound platform with the footbridge to the westbound platform to the right.
Cross Gates Station, Leeds - DNT00147
The attractively decorated interior of the entrance porch to the station with staff posing for the camera in NER days.
Scholes Station, Nr. Leeds - DNT00148
The first station on the NER Wetherby line after it branched off the Leeds-York/Selby line at Cross Gates but it was nearly ¾ mile from the village of that name. It opened at the same time as the line in 1876 and closed with the line in 1964. It’s…
Thorner Station - DNT00149
Thorner station looking south with its well maintained flower beds which won it the NER’s first prize for the ‘best kept wayside station’ in 1912 and 1913.
When it opened with the line in 1876 it was called ‘Thorner & Scarcroft’ becoming just…
When it opened with the line in 1876 it was called ‘Thorner & Scarcroft’ becoming just…
Bardsey Station - DNT00150
Looking down on the station early 20th century which was on the NER's Cross Gates – Wetherby line; opened 1876 and closed 1964.
Collingham Bridge Station, Nr. Wetherby - DNT00151
The station seen here after the line was doubled in 1901. It opened 1876 and closed with the line in 1964.
Wetherby Station - DNT00152
Seen here early 20th century on the NER’s Cross Gates – Wetherby line. This is the second station in Wetherby the first having been on the Church Fenton- Harrogate line but when the line from Cross Gates opened in 1876 it’s junction with the…
Kippax Station, Nr Leeds - DNT00153
The station seen here with very well maintained gardens was on the NER Castleford to Garforth single track line which opened in 1878 primarily for coal traffic and the Kippax coalfield. The line closed to passengers in 1951 and fully over its whole…
Methley Station (MR) - DNT00154
The station seen here in in LMS days (1923-1948) opened in 1841 at the same time as the Leeds – Derby line of the North Midland Railway, later a constituent part of the MR. The station closed in 1957 having been re-named Methley North in 1950 to…
Lofthouse & Outwood Station c.1905 - DNT00155
The original station was opened by the Bradford, Wakefield and Leeds Railway in 1858, and was originally named Lofthouse. This was renamed Lofthouse and Outwood in July 1865. It closed on 13 June 1960.[1] A different Lofthouse and Outwood station,…
Ardsley Station - DNT00156
An intermediate station on the Bradford, Wakefield & Leeds Railway between Leeds and Wakefield which opened in 1857 and became part of the GNR network in 1865. The station closed in 1964.
Beeston Station, Leeds, 1961 - DNT00157
On the GNR Leeds - King Cross main line only a few miles out of Leeds centre it opened in 1860 and closed 1953.
Armley & Wortley Station, Leeds - DNT00158
After Holbeck High level this was the first station out of Leeds Central on the GNR ‘short line’ to Bradford which had opened in 1854. The line was also used by the L&YR for their Leeds traffic from Bradford, Halifax and the west.The timetable…