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View north from Leicester North station
A view from the new platform built for the Great Central Railway's preserved line shows the former access from the overbridge to the island platform at what was once Belgrave & Birstall station.
Image: © Peter Whatley
Taken: 21 Sep 2002
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Former access to Leicester North Station
The original station was obviously an island platform accessed by stairs from the bridge through the now infilled entrance marked by red bricks. The entrance structure is of the same style as those at Rothley and Quorn & Woodhouse stations. This is now a preserved line. The road over the bridge is, appropriately enough, Station Road.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 28 Jan 2012
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Leicester North departure
The 09:45 for Loughborough departs with LMS 'Crab' No. 13065 in charge of a rake of coaches in blood and custard livery with a griddle car. The food looked tasty but with a 30 minute wait it didn't fit in with our plans for the morning. The orange bricks mark the original entrance to Birstall Station. This was a typical Great Central island station accessed from the over bridge. The new station is a single platform accessed on the flat. I have never tried this angle before.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 27 Jan 2018
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Bridge over the Great Central Railway at Leicester North
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 1 Jun 2024
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Once this was double track
Approaching the former Belgrave and Birstall station bridge on a Great Central Railway train heading for Leicester North.
Image: © Christine Johnstone
Taken: 4 Aug 2012
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Site of Belgrave & Birstall station
Part of the site of Belgrave & Birstall station, on the Great Central Railway's London extension on the northern outskirts of Leicester, is now used by the heritage railway called the Great Central Railway for its southern terminus, Leicester North. The bricked up former entrance to Belgrave & Birstall can be seen on the road bridge to the north of the present station; it led to an island platform, hence the two bridge portals. While much of the present GCR is double track, the section into Leicester North is single, using the former down side.
Image: © Richard Vince
Taken: 1 Sep 2012
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Great Central Railway
Image: © Tim Glover
Taken: 20 May 1995
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Belgrave & Birstall Station Site
North of Leicester North station on the Great Central Railway heritage line is the road bridge Which has the bricked-up entrance to the former platforms. The locomotive has just run round its train from Loughborough
Image: © Kevin Waterhouse
Taken: 14 Sep 2014
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Belgrave & Birstall railway station (site), Leicestershire
Opened in 1899 by the Great Central Railway on the line from Leicester Central to Nottingham Victoria, this station closed in 1963 and was demolished.
View north towards Rothley and Nottingham. Only the former entrance on the bridge survives. To the south was an island platform. Image taken from the later 'Leicester North' station of the heritage Great Central Railway.
Image: © Nigel Thompson
Taken: 29 Dec 2007
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The leaving of Leicester North
On the preserved Great Central Railway. 46521 is running tender first to Loughborough while another locomotive simmers in the background waiting to swap engines with the 9F bringing in the next train. This was the winter steam gala.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 25 Jan 2014
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