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Horton Park railway station

Horton Park railway station

Disused railway station in West Yorkshire, England

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.

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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.

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References

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


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