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Throughout the 19th century, contemporary directories and maps either used the railway company name or a nearby street to identify the station. In 1852 it was the "Leeds and Bradford Railway Station". [13] In 1863 the location was "Midland Railway, Bottom of Kirkgate". [14] The date of the name change has not yet been identified.
Diagram of city centre stations in Bradford, West Yorkshire. Bradford Crossrail is an idea to link together Bradford's two railway stations, Bradford Forster Square and Bradford Interchange. [1] Both these stations are truncated versions of former station sites, Bradford Forster Square station and Bradford Exchange. These stations were built in ...
A postcard of the former Bradford station building, which is still extant. The Boston and Portland Railroad opened to Bradford (at the time, a separate town), across the Merrimack River from Haverhill, on October 26, 1837. [2]: 5 It was the terminus of the line until the January 1, 1840 extension across the river and into New Hampshire.
Ben Rhydding railway station; Bingley railway station; Bradford Forster Square railway station; Bradford Interchange; Burley-in-Wharfedale railway station; C.
Bradford Adolphus Street railway station, demolished in the 1970s; Bradford Forster Square railway station, served by Northern and London North Eastern Railway, formerly Bradford Market Street station; Bradford Interchange, served by Northern and Grand Central; Bradford Exchange railway station, former station replaced by Bradford Interchange
A smoking ban is observed in all parts of Bradford interchange, and CCTV is also in operation with security officers and police regularly patrolling the station. The railway station has four platforms and a short bay that was previously used for the Red Star parcels facility. Platform 1 has a run-round facility for locomotive-hauled trains ...
Bradford Drake Street railway station (later called Exchange) was opened by the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway on 9 May 1850. [2] The station was designed in an "Italianate-style" by a local architect, Eli Milnes, [3] and was furnished with an island platform underneath a train shed that was 120 feet (37 m) long and 63 feet (19 m) wide.
When the Leeds, Bradford and Halifax Junction Railway (later absorbed by the Great Northern) arrived in Bradford they initially built a terminus at Adolphus Street. It was poorly situated, and so a branch line was built from east of the terminus that looped south and joined the existing Lancashire and Yorkshire line at Mill Lane junction.