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4 unusual facts about Leicester Campbell Street railway station


Leicester Campbell Street railway station

The offices for Royal Mail now occupy some of the site of the old station buildings on Campbell Street.

With buildings designed by Charles Trubshaw, the new station was built with the platforms largely in the previous positions, but with the entrance and main buildings fronting onto London Road.

Leicester Campbell Street railway station was the first proper railway station in Leicester, opened in 1840 by the Midland Counties Railway.

Thomas Cook

With the opening of the extended Midland Counties Railway, he arranged to take a group of 540 temperance campaigners from Leicester Campbell Street station to a rally in Loughborough, eleven miles away.



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