Horton Park railway station
Horton Park | |
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General information | |
Location | Great Horton, City of Bradford England |
Coordinates | 53°47′05″N 1°46′14″W / 53.78464°N 1.77056°W |
Grid reference | SE152320 |
Platforms | 2 |
Other information | |
Status | Disused |
History | |
Original company | Bradford and Thornton Railway |
Pre-grouping | Great Northern Railway |
Post-grouping | London and North Eastern Railway |
Key dates | |
23 October 1880 | Station opened |
15 September 1952 | Station closed for regular passenger services |
August 1972 | closed completely |
Horton Park railway station was a railway station on the Queensbury-Bradford section of the Queensbury Lines which ran between Bradford, Keighley and Halifax via Queensbury.
The station was built near to the Bradford Park Avenue football ground.[1] It opened for passengers in 1880 closed for regular passenger trains in 1952 but remained open to special trains on match days until 1955. The station had a large goods yard which kept it open like the City Road Goods Branch until August 1972 when the yards and branch closed and the tracks were lifted.[2] The station remained in place along with its concrete sign until 2005 when the station was demolished to make way for a carpark for the new Al-Jamia Suffa-Tul-Islam Grand Mosque.
Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
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Great Horton | Great Northern Railway Queensbury lines | Manchester Road |
References
[edit]- ^ "Location". Bradford FC. BFC. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
- ^ Armour, Chris. "Horton park". Disused Stations. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
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