Leicester London St Pancras Train

Leicester railway station, operated by East Midlands Trains, serves the Leicestershire city of Leicester and lies on the main line from London St Pancras to Sheffield and Nottingham. The station has a staffed ticket office and passengers are also able to collect tickets purchased in advance (for example, on the internet) from one of the automatic ticket machines located in the station.

Facilities at the station include ATM's, First Class Lounge, pay phones, public wifi, cafe, shops, toilets and baby changing facilities.

The station is an interchange point between the Midland Main Line from London St Pancras to Leeds and services on the Cross Country Route from Birmingham through Cambridge to Stansted Airport and Norwich. Plans are underway to electrify the section of the Midland Main Line that is not electrified. Once completed faster speeds will be possible and as a result journey times to London will be under one hour.

Passenger services calling at the station are operated by East Midlands Trains and Cross Country. Destinations available include London, Nottingham, Derby, Sheffield, Leeds, York, Lincoln, Skegness, Kettering, Bedford, Luton, Loughborough, Birmingham, Cambridge, Stanstead Airport and Peterborough.

Parking is available at the station for 515 vehicles and is open 24 hours a day.

Located in central London, London St Pancras railway station offers passengers destinations including Leicester, Nottingham, Derby, Sheffield, Leeds, Chatham, Faversham, Ashford International, Canterbury West, Folkestone, Dover, Luton and Bedford. International destinations available are Paris, Brussels and Lille.

London St Pancras railway station is operated by Network Rail and is the terminus for East Midlands Trains services from London to Derby, Leicester, Nottingham, Sheffield, and smaller towns en route, and for Eurostar's high speed trains to Paris, Brussels and Lille. First Capital Connect trains on the cross-London Thameslink route call at platforms beneath the main station, south to Gatwick Airport and Brighton and north to Luton Airport Parkway for Luton Airport and Bedford. It is also the terminus for high speed domestic services to Kent, run by Southeastern.

Facilities at the station include ATM's, bureau de change, First Class Lounge, pay phones, cafes and shops, toilets and baby changing facilities. Parking is available at the station for 322 vehicles and is open 24 hours a day.

The recent redeveloped terminus has been described by the travel writer Simon Calder as "the world's most wonderful railway station". On the station's upper level, above the Arcade concourse, stands a bronze statue of the former Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman, gazing in apparent wonder at the Barlow roof and at the south end of the upper level, a 9-metre high bronze statue named The Meeting Place stands beneath the station clock.