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Baildon station closed in 1953, but on 20 March 1965, the other three of these stations closed, along with another dozen stations and the local service between Bradford and Leeds. Most of the services through Shipley were under threat and hung in the balance until the West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive adopted them in the 1970s.
The Shipley Great Northern Railway branch line was a railway line that ran east, south and then westwards from Shipley to Bradford in West Yorkshire, England.The route was opened in 1874 to goods traffic and then to passengers in 1875 by the Great Northern Railway (GNR) and looped around the eastern edge of Bradford.
Initially, a single train operated each day, departing from a terminal in Chicago at Water St. and Kinzie St. at 8:30 am and returning from Waukegan at 3:30 pm. [6] [7] The president of the railroad, former Chicago mayor Walter S. Gurnee, speculated on land in Lake County spurring the development of railway suburbs along the line. [8]
The service to Ilkley branches north of Shipley railway station to: Baildon railway station a reopened station; Esholt: station closed; Esholt Junction for the line to Leeds. and on to Guiseley, Menston, Burley-in-Wharfedale, Ben Rhydding and Ilkley; The line was electrified throughout using 25 kV AC Overhead [5] between 1994 and 1995 by ...
Investment in the line has seen passenger numbers grow, [2] and now overcrowding on trains is a problem. [3] New stock and longer trains were introduced by the former Northern franchise Arriva Rail North in 2019 to tackle this issue. [4] The route is described below. The line originally included a number of stations which are now closed:
The terminus of the new line was called Shipley and Windhill Station (According to Dewick, [2] it was first Shipley (Great Northern) and then Shipley Bridge Street) or possibly Shipley East. [3] The station was on the north side of Leeds Road, west of the Bradford Canal, and less than 330 yards (300 m) from the existing Shipley Station on the ...
A new Apperley Bridge station opened in December 2015. [8] Shipley; Frizinghall (closed 1965, reopened 1987) Manningham (closed 1965) Bradford Forster Square station; West Yorkshire MCards (MetroCards until 2016) are available to the stations currently open (shown in bold letters). [9] Closed stations are shown in normal font.
Bradford Forster Square railway station serves Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. The majority of services to and from the station use Class 333 and Class 331 electric multiple units operated by Northern Trains ; they run on the Airedale line to Skipton , the Wharfedale line to Ilkley and the Leeds-Bradford line to Leeds .