Coordinates: 53°47′42″N 1°19′37″W / 53.795°N 1.327°W / 53.795; -1.327
| East Leeds Parkway | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Place | Micklefield |
| Local authority | City of Leeds |
| Grid reference | SE443334 |
| Operations | |
| Managed by | N/A |
| Number of platforms | 3 |
| Passenger Transport Executive | |
| Zone | 2 |
| History | |
| Opening 2013 (2013) | |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| UK Railways portal | |
East Leeds Parkway is a proposed railway station, to be sited near Micklefield in West Yorkshire, England on the York and Selby Lines.
It will be served by trains from the west of Leeds which would normally terminate at Leeds station; by continuing eastwards to this station, it is hoped that extra capacity for through trains would be created at Leeds. The station would also form the first phase of electrifying the railway line to the east of Leeds. As a parkway station, the intention would be to allow for a park-and-ride service and the plans include parking for 500 cars.
£20 million was allocated to the scheme by the Yorkshire and Humber Regional Transport Board in April 2008. It was originally hoped that construction would begin in 2011, with a completion date of 2012, but the business case will not be submitted to the Department for Transport until 2011. The scheme has now been put on hold due to a lack of central government funding.
The station is likely to be made up of 2 long platforms, capable of serving inter-city trains, as well as a bay platform for terminating services.
Famous quotes containing the words east, railway and/or station:
“The current of our thoughts made as sudden bends as the river, which was continually opening new prospects to the east or south, but we are aware that rivers flow most rapidly and shallowest at these points.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Her personality had an architectonic quality; I think of her when I see some of the great London railway termini, especially St. Pancras, with its soot and turrets, and she overshadowed her own daughters, whom she did not understand—my mother, who liked things to be nice; my dotty aunt. But my mother had not the strength to put even some physical distance between them, let alone keep the old monster at emotional arm’s length.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“...I believe it is now the duty of the slaves of the South to rebuke their masters for their robbery, oppression and crime.... No station or character can destroy individual responsibility, in the matter of reproving sin.”
—Angelina Grimké (1805–1879)