Thackley railway station

Thackley
General information
Location	Thackley, City of Bradford England
Coordinates	53°50′36″N1°44′08″W / 53.84324°N 1.73567°W / 53.84324; -1.73567
Grid reference	SE174385
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Great Northern Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Northern Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
1 March 1878	Opened
2 February 1931	Closed (passenger)
7 October 1968	Closed (line)
Location

v t e Bradford Lines
Legend
Leeds & Bradford Extn Rly to Skipton Skipton–Ilkley line to Skipton Steeton and Silsden Ilkley | Keighley Ben Rhydding Keighley (GN) Burley-in-Wharfedale Menston Guiseley Ingrow West Ingrow East Crossflatts Damems Cullingworth Bingley Esholt Oakworth Wilsden Saltaire Baildon Haworth Denholme Shipley Oxenhope Thornton Shipley and Windhill Apperley Bridge to Halifax Queensbury Frizinghall Clayton Manningham Great Horton Bradford Forster Sq Horton Park Bradford Exchange City Road Bradford Interchange Airedale line to Leeds Manchester Road St Dunstans Bradford Adolphus St Thackley Bowling Idle Bowling Junction Laisterdyke Eccleshill Calder Valley line to Leeds to Leeds Dudley Hill Birkenshaw and Tong Pudsey loop line railway to Leeds Low Moor│ Low Moor Goods Spen Valley line to Mirfield Wyke and Norwood Green Calder Valley line to Halifax

Thackley railway station was a railway station in Thackley, West Yorkshire, England. ^[1]

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. ^[2]

Thackley railway station was rebuilt in 1890–1894. ^[3]

Passenger service on the line ceased on 2 February 1931 and the passenger station closed, though goods traffic continued on the whole line until October 1964 and between Shipley and Idle until 1968. ^[4]

The line is now a public footpath, with only ruined buildings and partially demolished platforms at track level to show that this was a railway station. ^[5] The 1894 building still exists and is now a private dwelling, situated next to the 1874 humped back Crag Hill Road bridge.

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Shipley and Windhill		GNR Shipley and Windhill Line		Idle

References

1. Whitaker, Alan; Myland, Brian. Railway Memories No. 4: Bradford. Bellcode books. ISBN   1-871233-03-8.
2. Bairstow, Martin (1999). The Great Northern Railway in the East Riding. Martin Bairstow. ISBN   1-871944-19-8.
3. "Bradford.gov.uk - Thackley, Bradford Potential Conservation Area Report" (PDF). May 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 17 June 2009.
4. 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.
5. "Disused Stations". Subterranea Britannica.