Leeds Marsh Lane railway station

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Marsh Lane railway station was built as the Leeds terminus of the Leeds and Selby Railway.
The combined passenger and goods station opened in 1834.
During the construction of the extension of the Leeds and Selby Line into central Leeds in the 1860s the station was demolished, and replaced with a large goods station and a separate through passenger station.
In 2019, councillors at Leeds City Council suggested in the local media that serious discussions were underway about reopening the station as the city's second major railway station.
Marsh Lane station, c.
1842 （up is east） NB the diagram is schematic in that the walls of the main shed were not parallel.
The station was built as the Leeds terminus of the Leeds and Selby Railway which opened in 1834.
The first official train to run on the line started from Marsh Lane at around 6.
30 am on 22 September 1834.
In 1842 the station consisted of a two-storey office building, containing a booking office on the ground floor, with the railway level with the first floor.
The main station shed had four lines of track, serving both goods and passenger trains; the building was roofed and supported on cast iron columns.
The passenger lines lacked raised platforms, unlike other stations on the line.
Goods were handled at a warehouse at the west end of the station, adjacent to the offices, and at a supplementary building, added onto the northeast side of the original trainshed.
The station also included the railway's workshops in the northeast corner of the site, and coal and lime depots on the south side.
After the acquisition of the Leeds and Selby by the York and North Midland Railway （Y&NMR） in 1840 passenger trains were diverted via the Y&NMR's li...