Quote: Highbury Rhino "Were there ever two main railway stations in the centre of Leeds? I have a vague memory of going to Warrington on a steam train from a 'Leeds Central' station in the early 60's. Did this then become Leeds City Station or were there two and Leeds Central closed...or did I dream the whole damn thing?'" As immortalised in the Hue and Cry song www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONc3OMOb98I Hue & Cry of course supported Madonna at Rounday in 1987, spooky

Quote: Highbury Rhino "Were there ever two main railway stations in the centre of Leeds? I have a vague memory of going to Warrington on a steam train from a 'Leeds Central' station in the early 60's. Did this then become Leeds City Station or were there two and Leeds Central closed...or did I dream the whole damn thing?'" As immortalised in the Hue and Cry song www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONc3OMOb98I Hue & Cry of course supported Madonna at Rounday in 1987, spooky

There were two stations. Leeds City (where it is now) and Leeds Central (situated between Wellington Street and Whitehall Road) approximately rlHERErl.

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Quote: William Eve "There were two stations. Leeds City (where it is now) and Leeds Central (situated between Wellington Street and Whitehall Road) approximately rlHERErl.'" www.leodis.net/display.aspx?reso ... SPLAY=FULL www.leodis.net/display.aspx?reso ... SPLAY=FULL

The 'Cobourg' reinvented itself as a Thai restaurant this week.

Am I right in thinking that the remaining stone building used to be a train lift, or did I just make that up?

From the "Secret Leeds" Facebook page...




I'm struggling to work this one out - yes its obviously where the Armley Gyratory (that big roundabout) is now, the roundhouse tram depot and the railway arch is still there and I think the gas thingy is still there too and so presumably the roundabout is where the yellow vans (British Gas vans ?) are parked ?

To the left I'm assuming that the new white-looking building is the former Royal Mail sorting office and if you follow the railway viaduct around from bottom left to the middle of the photo are those two stone structures what is left of Central Station (one of which is still there) ?

If you drew a line across this photo halfway up it, almost everything below the line has been wiped out and yet this must only be mid 60's ?

A cargo lift I think ?

My dad used to have an office at the end of Wellington St next to City Square and he spoke of having to go to Central Station on a daily basis to collect parcels sent up from their head office in London so to him it was always the goods station.

It was mainly for wagons. At ground level below the arches there was a goods yard as can be seen in the picture above. I believe there was more than one



Both stations had cargo. Originally the two stations were created by competing companies before nationalisation of the railways. What is now Whitehall riverside were warehouses for both stations. I seem to remember in the late 80s what is now platform 1 at city was still used for goods. I seem to remember regularly seeing the mail train parked up when going for days out to ilkley

I could be wrong, but the area where the yellow vans are parked is possibly still there in the centre of the gyratory. There is an area in the centre which is accessed by a tunnel from the British Gas offices.
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I bloody love this thread.

eeeeh lad, best you can remember is probably the eastern terrace before they built the Carnegie

It's the YEP building (more specifically, rlthis part of the YEP buildingrl) and immediately behind it is the International Pool.

Right, and the Royal Mail building isn't there yet because it would be further into the middle of the photo anyway being beyond those railway station lift towers.

So anyone want to have a stab at a year, it should be possible to pin it down fairly accurately I would have thought ?

rlRoyal Mail House on Wellington St was built in 1974/75rl so that places the photo before then.


The international pool was built in 1967 and the YEP building was built in 1970 so that places the photo as early 70's and sometime between 1971 and 1974.