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.