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View from Dover Street, looking towards London Road.
©Terry Roberts
Dist:0.1km<br/>View NW across the Locomotive Yard and main line to the Goods Station, with Engine Shed Sidings signalbox over on the right: the recently (1945) rebuilt Shed was to the right, London Road Station to the left. The Depot (coded 15C in the Wellingborough District) was large, with an allocation in 1954 of 74 locomotives, comprising 11 4-6-0s, 12 4-4-0s, 7 2-8-0s, 2 2-6-0s, 27 0-6-0s, 1 4-4-2T, 5 2-6-4Ts, 3 2-6-2Ts and 6 0-6-0Ts. These covered much of the passenger and freight work in and around Leicester and on the LMR lines radiating from there, also a number of duties on the main London St Pancras - Sheffield route. (The photograph features 0-6-0s Nos. 43710 and 44522 with 4-6-0s Nos. 44853 and 45137 in the third row). The Depot closed to steam on 13/6/65, but remained in use by Diesels for some years.
©Ben Brooksbank
Dist:0.1km<br/>A "Merrymaker" excursion from either Marylebone or St Pancras (forgotten which) to a mystery destination (Norwich) accelerates smokily out of Leicester. Early spring, 1974.
©Robin Webster
Dist:0.1km<br/>Taken from Swain Street Bridge. The tower blocks are part of St. Peter's Estate.
©Steve Rowe
Dist:0.2km<br/>Engine Sheds outside Leicester Station.
©gary radford
Dist:0.2km<br/>Compare this shot with the more recent one [[399333]].
©Stephen Craven
Dist:0.2km<br/>Hotel Ibis near the railway station in Leicester.
©Lambert
Dist:0.2km<br/>The diesel depot at Leicester in 1985 with locomotives of several different classes visible. This depot has since closed.
©Rob Newman
Dist:0.2km<br/>The headquarters building of the Leicester Mercury, a regional newspaper covering Leicester and the surrounding areas.
©Malc McDonald
Dist:0.2km<br/>The large building on the right-hand side of the street is The Rowley Building, a former clothing factory which closed in 1999. It has now been converted into apartments. It is only a few minutes' walk from here into Leicester city centre.
©Malc McDonald
Dist:0.3km<br/>The roundabout is on the ring road, and is the junction between St Matthew's Way and St George's Way.
©Keith Williams
Dist:0.3km<br/>Wimbledon Street is flanked with former industrial buildings - mills and factories. These have now been converted into residential apartments. People living here are just a few minutes' walk from Leicester city centre. The tower block in the background is a British Telecom office block, believed to be the tallest building in Leicester.
©Malc McDonald
Dist:0.3km<br/>Telephoto view from the summit of Croft Hill, some 11 kilometres distant. For an alternative version, see [[511666]]
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.3km<br/>The white plaque visible on the far left of the front of the building celebrates Queen Victoria's 60th Jubilee, and is shown in detail here [[740214]].
©Keith Williams
Dist:0.3km<br/>View SW, over the Down side of the station; ex-Midland London St Pancras - Derby/Sheffield etc. main line, junction with secondary lines to Melton Mowbray and Peterborough, Rugby, Birmingham and Burton-on-Trent. Just leaving is the 12.25 stopping train to Corby via Melton Mowbray, headed by Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 No. 44985.
©Ben Brooksbank

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