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What a mess , these clowns that think that graffiti is art are brain dead . Unfortunately the powers that be in Leicester have no cultural ties to the history of the city ,let alone the old GCR , hence they allow what’s left to be destroyed,vandalised and left to rot .

Nice video.

From memory, just from stuff I've read, some of this may be inaccurate... The red brick building at 9:40 was a electricity generator. The arch with P.K.C at 9:53 was the station entrance, the smaller arch next door at 10:10 was the Station Masters office - the 'turret to the right of this arch was a chimney for the fireplace. The Roman Mosaic was in the last smaller arch on this side, where Blackfriars Street turns away from the arches, there was a plaque above the arch, which has long gone, you can see the bolt holes where it was.

Lets hope no urban vandalism takes place here whish has been all too prevalent elsewhere!

Great video by eck it has changed since i was last there city councils have no respect for history like this demolish build flats for our new "arrival" friends .....

If I remember right a month or 2 ago there was a fire up the top end the Graffiti is part of bring the paint think as it's a legal wall they are allowed to paint on that wall I think the organisers work with the council

I can tell you love a good ARCH 😂

My dad worked. On the gc for over 40 years also my brother.

Use to be great absolutely thriving ,car mechanics,vw restoration garage, engineer, fabrication business, hydraulic firm , paint suppliers, could always get something fixed or made

The grassed area where you could see a post was a graveyard there are graves still there. The large pole you referred to as a lamppost is a stench pipe. Nice video, will watch your others.

I walked the track in 1969. The tracks had only been lifted for a couple of years, and only the odd bridge missing. A lot changed in 50 odd years.

11:26 you see a lot of those old posts around Leicester. I think they're sewage vents of some kind.

Great episode....thank you...

The mayor and the council has ruined the whole of Leicester and that is a fact

Could collect the coal and give it to the preserved railway ❤

Great to see video so well made and without any dreadful intolerable sound effects like so many have today, and without any appalling blasphemy either. And needless to say it looks like some of the precious heritage is again being destroyed by a council and developers etc. after it survived two world wars. Great to see the main station building preserved and cleaned up so well and repurposed in a way that should help keep some local youngsters out of bother.

You were dead right to mute the sound at 19:10, today's so-called "music" is absolutely intolerable.

Apart from the artwork under the big bridges it really looks like the authorities in that city need to take back control as it looks like vandalism there is far too out of control, and that of course leads to worse crimes.

Oh wow I've not been around the area for ages but my dad's mum actually used to work at the station until it closed she sadly died when I was seven and dad and his siblings don't know a huge amount about what she did there other than work as a customer advisor would now selling tickets and advising them about trains expected and journeys she also briefly worked at the old Sainsbury's/BM site long gone station there too it's great to see so much of the structure has been kept and the businesses opened up in the old station site not having the old building pulled down and a new build made 😄👏🎉

Been there hundreds of times

Leicester north station was Belgrade & Birstall during Great Central, London & northeaston, British Rail days.

The Great Central was the fist high speed railway line built in Britain at the turn off the last Century.

The old Great Central station is now a bowling alley, there is a Roman tile floor under to station arches.

Great video and thanks, Middy.

you will have to show me this next time we are round 👍

Brilliant video! .. many thanks :)

The rear entrance to the platform/station was the two big doors before the one you said you thought it was .the one the pointed to was actually the post office not sure if you noticed it has a chimney on it .I know this as it's my friends unit he uses for storage been in there many times and bhind it theres a tunnel which was used for the mail was dropped down from a bout the tunnel runs down the hole back of the arches each arch has doors to it witch are locked but . are still there I've been in the tunnel is onley accessed now from one arch witch is the one where the door was open and the guy was working/banging

there must be scope to use some of the viaduct itself for business or leisure at the upper level ( see eg the Leeds station disused viaduct as a green walkway)

the loss of Leciester to Rugby by rail was a huge mistake.

8:31 I think that's a wire support/strainer for a telegraph pole.

Great video again 👍

Great video lots of good information 👍

Great video. It must have been a grand station back in its heyday. It's good that the building is still being used.

If only someone had built HS2 years ago we could have saved a lot of money. Oh they did and demolished it, short termism at it's best.

7:40 Well done on finding that coal.👍 What was once very common is now quite rare!😮

It's a pity the council at that time did not have any forward looking vision. The entire site could have become a railway museum - a money making machine and acceptable costs to convert as all the facilities were in place and intact. O what could have been. But if the city is still the owner then further development plans would already be on file and available to public disclosure.

Why do people graffiti

looks like the ship inn pub has gone,,me dads house was in warrington st behind the pub in the 1930s,,his dad ran the butchers shop on northgate st,,his name was william burdett,,great video.

I bloody hate that mess they call street art, eyesore

Thanks for the video. After having been born and lived in Leicester for 48 years, I left 12 years ago. So happy to see they didn’t demolish the station, and instead cleaned it up and repurposed it. I never went down this part of town too often, but it really has changed a lot!

Excellent Video ❤

Probably want to demolish it for flats for irregulars

Plenty of dubious garages resided down the arches

How many miles was Leicester Central from the railhead at Leicester North

Thanks, great video!

The mosaic was in the last archway at the end of the row as you walked down the road.

Thanks for another great video. I used to park in between the 2 platforms that survived as worked for Coates haulage when they had the yard. I’d say the remaining platform ends would still be there as they form part of all saints road bridge. Opposite the bridge used to be Richard Robert’s factory shop and Huckleberry’s cafe. Sadly all closed now. Where the north gate bridge (girder) was there was a pub / hotel called the van damme

Have you got the link for the station platform video?.

I used to park under that bridge when visiting the city centre. At the time i never even realised what it was. But where've all the pigeons gone, used to be about 10 thousand of them nesting under there? 😂

Another very interesting video that brings back a lot of happy memories! There were huge hydraulic buffers on the bay platform roads and a couple of gas tanks for coach lighting gas used to stand in one of the south bays. There was a short loco spur at the north end of the station next to the viaduct wall for locos waiting to take over northbound trains. I can also recall looking in the old buffet after it closed and it still had all its fittings and crockery, even the glass fronted cabinets on the counter and glass cake stands. It was a ready-made museum of Great Central catering! Sadly to see the booking hall now a bowling alley. I seem to have a vague memory of the tunnel under and up to the platforms being in those white faced bricks. It always seemed a far grander station than the Midland Railways London Road. There was even a turntable at the south end near the Jewry Wall where locos could be turned ready for the return trip to Marylebone after they changed locos when they arrived on an express from London. The station pilot used to stand over there between duties often in the summer months it was 61008 "Kudu" as in the event of a loco failing it would be required to take over a mainline working. I spent many a happy Saturday there watching the trains. Plenty of freight trains on the GC in those days too! Robinson 2-8-0s gradually giving way to 9F 2-10-0s as time went by. Hard to believe that it has all gone and been mostly demolished and forgotten in little more than 50 years. By far the quickest route to London in my childhood days now only a distant memory.