City Road Goods Branch

City Road Goods Branch

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Location
Place Bradford
Area City of Bradford
Coordinates 53°47′55″N 1°46′45″W / 53.79851°N 1.77903°WCoordinates: 53°47′55″N 1°46′45″W / 53.79851°N 1.77903°W
Grid reference SE146336
Operations
Pre-grouping Great Northern Railway
History
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Bradford Lines

Legend
To Skipton
To Skipton
Steeton and Silsden
Ilkley
Keighley (GN) / Keighley
Ben Rhydding
Burley-in-Wharfedale
Menston
Ingrow West / Ingrow (East)
Crossflatts / Guiseley
Damems / Cullingworth
Bingley / Esholt
Oakworth / Wilsden
Saltaire / Baildon
Haworth / Denholme
Shipley / Apperley Bridge
Oxenhope / Thornton
Shipley & Windhill / Thackley
To Leeds
Queensbury
Frizinghall / Idle
To Halifax
Manningham
Forster Square
Clayton / City Road
Exchange
Great Horton
Interchange / Adolphus Street
Horton Park
St Dunstans
Manchester Road
Eccleshill
Bowling
Bowling Junction
Laisterdyke
To Leeds
To Leeds
Dudley Hill
Birkenshaw and Tong;To Leeds
Low Moor
Low Moor
To Mirfield
Wyke & Norwood Green
To Halifax

The City Road Goods branch was a goods only branch serving the Lister Hills area of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England.[1]

History

Proposed as part of the Bradford and Thornton Railways Act (1865), later withdrawn but then incorporated (24 July 1871) and amalgamated with the Great Northern Railway (18 July 1872). The line to City Road from St Dunstans opened on 4 December 1876 and consisted of a branch from just east of Horton Park at Horton Junction travelling north for 1.25 miles (2.01 km). It closed when goods services were withdrawn from the stub of the St Dunstans to Thornton line on 26 August 1972.

The warehouses were converted into offices of a haulage company however they were destroyed in a fire in the 1980s.

References

  1. Joy, David (1984). A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain Volume VIII South and West Yorkshire. David St John Thomas. ISBN 0-94653-711-9.