Penda's Way railway station was a railway station on the Cross Gates–Wetherby line at the eastern edge of

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. The station opened on 5 June 1939 to serve a new housing estate and was named after a nearby battle where

King Penda Penda (died 15 November 655)Manuscript A of the ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'' gives the year as 655. Bede also gives the year as 655 and specifies a date, 15 November. R. L. Poole (''Studies in Chronology and History'', 1934) put forward the theor ...

was killed. It closed on 6 January 1964 together with the line and has been demolished entirely. The station was intended to serve the increasing commuter traffic in the area. Its platforms, which were both long, and the waiting rooms, had been constructed of wood. A lattice footbridge connected the northern ends of the platforms. The station was staffed and handled parcels as well as baskets of

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s, but it had no freight facilities.

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Disused railway stations in Leeds Beeching closures in England Former London and North Eastern Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1939 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1964 {{Yorkshire-Humber-railstation-stub