Horton Park railway station

Horton Park
Location
Place Great Horton
Area City of Bradford
Coordinates 53°47′05″N 1°46′14″W / 53.78464°N 1.77056°W / 53.78464; -1.77056Coordinates: 53°47′05″N 1°46′14″W / 53.78464°N 1.77056°W / 53.78464; -1.77056
Grid reference SE152320
Operations
Original company Bradford and Thornton Railway
Pre-grouping Great Northern Railway
Post-grouping London and North Eastern Railway
Platforms 2
History
23 October 1880 (1880-10-23) Station opened
15 September 1952 (1952-09-15) Station closed
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
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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
Great Horton   GN
Queensbury Lines		   Manchester Road

References

  1. ↑ "Location". Bradford FC. BFC. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
  2. ↑ Armour, Chris. "Horton park". Disused Stations. Retrieved 24 November 2015.


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