Trains from Leeds

Leeds has 676 trains timetabled to leave on Wednesday 4 November, run by Northern, TransPennine Express, LNER and CrossCountry, calling at 239 stations between them. The first goes at 03:18 and the last at 02:26.

The rush peaks at 17:00, with 47 departures in the hour, and platform 16 is the busiest, with 68 trains.

If you’ve time to kill, the CrossCountry train to Penzance takes 7 hours 27. On paper.

Leeds station as it is today was made in 1938 by merging two older stations, Leeds New and Leeds Wellington, and it has been rebuilt twice since. Underneath it, the River Aire runs through the Dark Arches, the Victorian vaults the station sits on. It’s the busiest station in Yorkshire.