Eccleshill railway station
Eccleshill railway station was a railway station in Eccleshill, West Yorkshire, England.[2]
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Location | |
Place | Eccleshill, West Yorkshire |
Area | City of Bradford |
Coordinates | 53.8211°N 1.7162°W |
Grid reference | SE186361 |
Operations | |
Original company | Idle and Shipley Railway |
Pre-grouping | GNR |
Post-grouping | L&NER |
Platforms | 2 |
History | |
15 April 1875 | Opened |
2 February 1931 | Closed (passenger) |
31 October 1964[1] | Closed (line) |
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History
During the 1860s, two small railway companies were formed to promote suburban railways in Bradford, the Bradford, Eccleshill and Idle Railway and the Idle and Shipley Railway. Their schemes - and the companies themselves - were taken up by the Great Northern Railway, which built a line looping through the villages to the north-east of Bradford: from Laisterdyke, through Eccleshill, Idle and Thackley to Shipley.
The line was open to goods traffic on 4 May 1874, and to passengers on 18 January 1875.[3] Eccleshill railway station opened on 15 April 1875.[4]
Passenger service on the line ceased on 2 February 1931 and the passenger station closed, though goods traffic and excursions continued on the whole line until October 1964 and between Shipley and Idle until 1968.[5][6]
Route
Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
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Idle | GNR Shipley Great Northern Railway branch line |
Laisterdyke |
References
- "Shipley Branch (Laisterdyke to Shipley)". Lost Railways West Yorkshire.co.uk. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
- Whitaker, Alan; Myland, Brian. Railway Memories No. 4: Bradford. Bellcode books. ISBN 1-871233-03-8.
- Bairstow, Martin (1999). The Great Northern Railway in the East Riding. Martin Bairstow. ISBN 1-871944-19-8.
- "Bradford timeline 1850-1899". Retrieved 26 December 2009.
- Peel, David (2013). The unusual and the unexpected on British railways : a chronology of unlikely events, 1948-1968. Stroud: Fonthill Media. p. 25. ISBN 978-1-78155-234-6.
- Joy, David (1984). A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain Volume VIII South and West Yorkshire. David St John Thomas. ISBN 0-946537-11-9.