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The Shipley Glen Tramway is a preserved cable funicular tramway located in the wooded area of Shipley Glen near the town of Baildon and the village of Saltaire, West Yorkshire, England. The lower station of the funicular is some 660 feet (200 m) by foot from Saltaire railway station , and a similar distance from the historic Salts Mill , now ...
To the north across the River Aire, is Shipley Glen ("glen" refers to the little valley beneath a ridge). It has long been a popular beauty spot, and in 1895 the Shipley Glen Tramway was built to carry visitors up to the top. The tramway has weathered periods of neglect and closure, but in 2012 it ran most weekends through the summer, staffed ...
Shipley Glen Tramway. In northern Shipley off Prod Lane there was a small fairground with dodgem cars, booths and a historic "Aerial Glide" suspended roller coaster that for a short period had listed building status. [11] [12] In earlier years the fairground attractions at Shipley Glen were much more extensive. [13]
[54] [55] Five minutes' walk away, on the far side of this bit of moor, is Shipley Glen, [51] where some of the Bracken Hall nature walks take place, and where the Roman coin in the Archaeology room was found. [18] [56] There is limited parking on the edge of the moor for visitors to the museum. The museum gardens and moor may be muddy after ...
Shipley railway station serves the market town of Shipley in West Yorkshire, England. It is 2 + 3 ⁄ 4 miles (4.4 km) north of Bradford Forster Square and 10 + 3 ⁄ 4 miles (17.3 km) north-west of Leeds .
The Bradford Link is 12.5 miles (20.1 km) long from Bradford Cathedral via Shipley Glen and Ilkley Moor to Ilkley. The Harrogate Link is 16.5 miles (26.6 km) long, running from the Valley Gardens in Harrogate by Haverah Park and the Washburn Valley to Ilkley. [13] At Ilkley the Dales Way connects with the Ebor Way.
The original station was opened in May 1856 by the Midland Railway, which had absorbed the Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway between Shipley and Colne in 1851. It closed on 20 March 1965 following the Beeching Axe, but West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive and British Rail reopened it on 9 April 1984, at a cost of £139,000 (equivalent to £564,300 in 2023).
At Airton the valley widens and becomes Airedale proper. The river flows past Skipton on to Keighley, Bingley, Shipley, and Leeds. Airedale, in conjunction with the Ribble Valley, provides low-altitude passes from Yorkshire to Lancashire through the Aire Gap. It is therefore an important transport route and was a strategically important area ...