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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 Closed (line)
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Eccleshill railway station was a railway station in Eccleshill, West Yorkshire, England.

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. Eccleshill railway station opened on 15 April 1875.

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.


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