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Leyton Mills Retail Park, Leyton Library, New Spitalfields Market, Leyton Orient F.C. stadium, and St. Patrick's Catholic Cemetery are within proximity of the station. Around Leyton station, the line runs parallel to the A12 road, while the station entrance is connected by the A112. It serves the area of the name itself, situated to the north ...
Construction of a new depot for Eurostar operations, to replace North Pole Depot, was approved by the UK Government on 15 November 2004. North Pole had served as the maintenance depot for the Eurostar's fleet of Class 373s since opening in 1994, but was inaccessible to the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (High Speed 1), over which all Eurostar services would run from November 2007.
There is a large retail park at Leyton Mills, next to the station. This has a large, 24-hour Asda store, a B&Q store and a selection of furniture and electrical stores. [ 14 ] At the north end of the town, Baker's Arms has a more traditional selection of shops lining Lea Bridge Road and the High Road, including a branch of Tesco .
Places served on the road are the Lea Valley Park, Lea Bridge railway station and the Baker's Arms area. Formerly the Lea Bridge Stadium was located along Lea Bridge Road, and served as a home for Leyton Orient and later a speedway team. Almost opposite the stadium, Emmanuel Parish Church, built in 1935, is a Grade II listed building. [1]
To the south of the station were the large Temple Mills marshalling yards, and the station would have seen large numbers of goods trains passing. In 1870 a line was opened to Shern Hall Street station (a temporary station located west of the present-day Wood Street station ) and a shuttle service operated between Lea Bridge and Shern Hall ...
[7] [8] On 15 February 2024, it was confirmed that the Lea Valley section would be named the Weaver line and would be coloured maroon on the updated network map. [ 9 ] The weaving and textile industry (Colloquially "the Rag Trade") was a major employer in the East End districts (such as Shoreditch , Spitalfields , Haggerston , Hackney and ...
The Central line stations east of Stratford kept their goods service for a time, being worked from Temple Mills, with the Hainault loop stations served via Woodford. [38] The BR line south of Newbury Park closed in 1956 [ 36 ] and Hainault loop stations lost their goods service in 1965, the rest of the stations on the line following in 1966.
Leyton Midland Road railway station, Greater London Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about railway and public transport stations with the same name.