Horton Park railway station

Horton Park
General information
LocationGreat Horton, City of Bradford
England
Coordinates53°47′05″N 1°46′14″W / 53.78464°N 1.77056°W / 53.78464; -1.77056
Grid referenceSE152320
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyBradford and Thornton Railway
Pre-groupingGreat Northern Railway
Post-groupingLondon and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
23 October 1880 (1880-10-23)Station opened
15 September 1952 (1952-09-15)Station closed for regular passenger services
August 1972closed completely
Location

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   Great Northern Railway
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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