Shipley and Windhill railway station

Shipley and Windhill railway station was a railway station in Shipley, West Yorkshire, England between 1875 and 1931.

Shipley and Windhill
Site of former GNR Shipley and Windhill Station
Location
Place	Shipley
Area	City of Bradford
Coordinates	53.834795°N 1.769530°W / 53.834795; -1.769530
Grid reference	SE152376
Operations
Original company	Idle and Shipley Railway.
Pre-grouping	GNR
Post-grouping	L&NER
History
4 May 1874	Opened (goods)
18 January 1875	Opened (passenger)
2 February 1931	Closed (passenger)
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z

Bradford Lines
Leeds & Bradford Extn Rly to Skipton Skipton–Ilkley line to Skipton Steeton and Silsden Ilkley Keighley Ben Rhydding Keighley (GN) Burley-in-Wharfedale Menston Guiseley Ingrow West Ingrow East Crossflatts Damems Cullingworth Bingley Esholt Oakworth Wilsden Saltaire Baildon Haworth Denholme Shipley Oxenhope Thornton Shipley and Windhill Apperley Bridge to Halifax Queensbury Frizinghall Clayton Manningham Great Horton Bradford Forster Sq Horton Park Bradford Exchange City Road Bradford Interchange Airedale line to Leeds Manchester Road St Dunstans Bradford Adolphus St Thackley Bowling Idle Bowling Junction Laisterdyke Eccleshill Calder Valley line to Leeds to Leeds Dudley Hill Birkenshaw and Tong Pudsey loop line railway to Leeds Low Moor│ Low Moor Goods Spen Valley line to Mirfield Wyke and Norwood Green Calder Valley line to Halifax

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.[1]

The terminus of the new line was called Shipley and Windhill Station (According to Dewick,[2] it was first Shipley (Great Northern) and then Shipley Bridge Street) or possibly Shipley East.[3] The station was on the north side of Leeds Road, west of the Bradford Canal, and less than 330 yards (300 m) from the existing Shipley Station on the Midland Railway. It was built to the same distinctive pattern as other stations on the line, with a short mitre-roofed tower in the centre.

Passenger service on the line ceased on 2 February 1931, and the passenger station closed, but goods traffic continued on the whole line until October 1964 and as far as Idle until 1968.

The railway line is featured in Simon Ormondroyd's Windhill Tales, based on life in the area in 1964.[4]

The station building survives: in 2005 it is occupied by several local businesses. However, proposals put forward in 2016 are for the building to be demolished to make way for apartments. The site has not been given any heritage designation.[5]

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Terminus		GNR Shipley Great Northern Railway branch line		Thackley

References

• Whitaker, Alan & Brian Myland 1993 Railway Memories No. 4: Bradford Bellcode books. ISBN 1-871233-03-8

1. Bairstow, Martin (1999). The Great Northern Railway in the West Riding. Martin Bairstow. ISBN 1-871944-19-8.
2. Dewick, Tony (2002). Compete Atlas of Railway Station Names. Ian Allan Publishing. ISBN 0-7110-2798-6.
3. Batty, Stephen R. (1989). Rail Centres; Leeds/Bradford. London: Ian Allan. p. i. ISBN 0-7110-1821-9.
4. Ormondroyd, Simon. Windhill Tales. Wait and See. ISBN 0-9533293-0-5.
5. Young, Chris (8 August 2016). "Former railway station site earmarked for apartments". Telegraph and Argus. Retrieved 18 September 2016.

External links

• Ticket to Shipley and Windhill railway station