Horton Park railway station

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.

Horton Park
LocationGreat Horton, City of Bradford
England
Coordinates53.78464°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

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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