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Platform 3 (on the Bradford-Leeds arm) was lengthened in 1990, to serve full-length InterCity trains. The northern (Leeds-Skipton) arm of the triangle is distant from the main station and had no platforms until May 1979. Before then, trains on the Leeds-Shipley-Skipton run had to come through the station to the Bradford branch and reverse.
The line was promoted by two separate railway companies; The Bradford, Eccleshill & Idle Railway and the Idle & Shipley Railway. Whilst the necessary Acts of Parliament were granted for these railways in 1866 and 1867 respectively, with no progress on either four years later, the Great Northern Railway stepped in and built the railway in its entirety from its two parliamentary constituent parts.
The Bradford to Bingley Road was constructed in the 1820s [60] and with Otley Road and Saltaire Road form a triangle framing Shipley centre. They connect the town to Bradford, Leeds and the Airedale towns. In September 2022, a clean air zone was launched in Bradford and Shipley. This means any non-private cars entering the city centre and the ...
The two lines from Leeds and Bradford come together at Esholt Junction [5] – the location of an 1892 crash [6] – south of Guiseley. The route from Leeds leaves the main line near Calverley and continues along the Aire valley until climbing a hill to: Guiseley railway station; Menston railway station; Burley-in-Wharfedale railway station
This is the location of the triangular junction for the branch line serving Shipley and Bradford Forster Square. The main line, which was opened from here to Skipton by the Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway in 1847, continues: Saltaire. Location of Bingley tunnel; Bingley; Crossflatts; Thwaites; Keighley. Location of the Worth Valley Branch ...
Bradford Grammar School was relocated to Frizinghall in the late 1940s. From then until closure, and again after reopening, pupils have constituted one of the main sources of traffic at the station. Indeed, it was an English teacher at Bradford Grammar School, Dr Robin Sisson, who actively fought for the Frizinghall station to reopen.
The first rail service into Bradford was opened by the Leeds and Bradford Railway on 1 July 1846. The line approached the town from the north, up Bradford Dale from Shipley , and terminated at a railway station on Kirkgate, opposite the end of Market Street.
View towards Shipley and Bradford in 1961. Baildon railway station serves the town of Baildon near Shipley in West Yorkshire, England.The station reopened under British Rail on 5 January 1973, by the Chairman of Baildon Council, Arnold Lightowler, having been closed for exactly 20 years.