Eccleshill railway station

Eccleshill
Location
Place	Eccleshill, West Yorkshire
Area	City of Bradford
Coordinates	53°49′16″N 1°42′58″W / 53.8211°N 1.7162°W / 53.8211; -1.7162Coordinates: 53°49′16″N 1°42′58″W / 53.8211°N 1.7162°W / 53.8211; -1.7162
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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Eccleshill railway station was a railway station in Eccleshill, West Yorkshire, England.^[2]

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 continued on the whole line until October 1964 and between Shipley and Idle until 1968.^[5]

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