Eccleshill
The site of the station in 2006
General information
LocationEccleshill, West Yorkshire, City of Bradford
England
Coordinates53°49′16″N 1°42′58″W / 53.8211°N 1.7162°W / 53.8211; -1.7162
Grid referenceSE186361
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyIdle and Shipley Railway
Pre-groupingGNR
Post-groupingL&NER
Key dates
15 April 1875Opened
2 February 1931Closed (passenger)
31 October 1964[1]Closed (line)

Eccleshill railway station was a railway station in Eccleshill, West Yorkshire, England.[2]

History

During the 1860s, two small railway companies were formed to promote suburban railways in Bradford, the Bradford, Eccleshill and Idle Railway and the Idle and Shipley Railway. Their schemes - and the companies themselves - were taken up by the Great Northern Railway, which built a line looping through the villages to the north-east of Bradford: from Laisterdyke, through Eccleshill, Idle and Thackley to Shipley.

The line was open to goods traffic on 4 May 1874, and to passengers on 18 January 1875.[3] Eccleshill railway station opened on 15 April 1875.[4]

Passenger service on the line ceased on 2 February 1931 and the passenger station closed, though goods traffic and excursions continued on the whole line until October 1964 and between Shipley and Idle until 1968.[5][6]

Route

Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Idle   GNR
Shipley Great Northern Railway branch line
  Laisterdyke

References

  1. "Shipley Branch (Laisterdyke to Shipley)". Lost Railways West Yorkshire.co.uk. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
  2. Whitaker, Alan; Myland, Brian. Railway Memories No. 4: Bradford. Bellcode books. ISBN 1-871233-03-8.
  3. Bairstow, Martin (1999). The Great Northern Railway in the East Riding. Martin Bairstow. ISBN 1-871944-19-8.
  4. "Bradford timeline 1850-1899". Retrieved 26 December 2009.
  5. Peel, David (2013). The unusual and the unexpected on British railways : a chronology of unlikely events, 1948-1968. Stroud: Fonthill Media. p. 25. ISBN 978-1-78155-234-6.
  6. Joy, David (1984). A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain Volume VIII South and West Yorkshire. David St John Thomas. ISBN 0-946537-11-9.
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