Leeds
Location type
StationNames and dates
Leeds Wellington (1846-1938)Leeds City (1938-1967)
Leeds (1967-)
Station code: LDS National Rail
Where: Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, England
Opened on the Leeds and Bradford Railway.
| Nearby stations Leeds Central Hunslet Lane Holbeck Low Level Holbeck High Level Marsh Lane [2nd] Marsh Lane [1st] Royal Gardens Hunslet [2nd] Hunslet Moor Armley Canal Road Hunslet [1st] Wortley and Farnley Farnley and Wortley Burley Park Armley Moor | Joint Line Junction Goods (LNWR and LYR) Goods (GNR) Canal Junction [Leeds] Goods (NER) Leeds Junction Three Signal Bridge Junction Whitehall SE Junction Engine Shed Junction [Leeds] Whitehall Road Goods Whitehall East Junction Whitehall Junction [Leeds] Whitehall SW Junction Holbeck Junction Whitehall West Junction |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 15/07/1967 | Newcastle and Berwick Railway Edinburgh Waverley to Leeds 'North Briton' derails at Acklington. The train was travelling at 75mph and derailed due to the track condition. No casualties. |
| /04/1996 | Great North Eastern Railway Begins running the East Coast Main Line franchise using Class 91s and Mk4 trails to Glasgow and Leeds, and HSTs to Hull, Aberdeen and Inverness. (And also the Class 89 for Leeds and Bradford.) |
| 17/10/2000 | Great North Eastern Railway Great North Eastern Railway (GNER) London Kings Cross to Leeds train de-rails at 115mph and crashes at Hatfield, killing 4 people, when the railway track breaks due to gauge corner cracking. Over 100 speed restrictions were applied across the railway network where similar track wear was known. |
