Horton Park railway station explained

Horton Park
Status:Disused
Borough:Great Horton, City of Bradford
Country:England
Coordinates:53.7846°N -1.7706°W
Grid Name:Grid reference
Platforms:2
Original:Bradford and Thornton Railway
Pregroup:Great Northern Railway
Postgroup:London and North Eastern Railway
Events:Station opened
Events1:Station closed for regular passenger services
Years2:August 1972
Events2:closed completely

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.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Location. Bradford FC. BFC. 24 November 2015.
  2. Web site: Armour. Chris. Horton park. Disused Stations. 24 November 2015.