Horton Park | |||||
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| General information | |||||
| Location | Great Horton,City of Bradford England | ||||
| Coordinates | 53°47′05″N1°46′14″W / 53.78464°N 1.77056°W /53.78464; -1.77056 | ||||
| Grid reference | SE152320 | ||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Status | Disused | ||||
| History | |||||
| Original company | Bradford and Thornton Railway | ||||
| Pre-grouping | Great Northern Railway | ||||
| Post-grouping | London and North Eastern Railway | ||||
| Key dates | |||||
| 23 October 1880 (1880-10-23) | Station opened | ||||
| 15 September 1952 (1952-09-15) | Station closed for regular passenger services | ||||
| August 1972 | closed completely | ||||
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Horton Park railway station was arailway station on the Queensbury-Bradford section of theQueensbury Lines which ran betweenBradford,Keighley andHalifax viaQueensbury.
The station was built near to theBradford Park Avenuefootball ground.[1] It opened for passengers in 1880 closed for regular passenger trains in 1952 but remained open to special trains on match days until 1955. The station had a large goods yard which kept it open like theCity Road Goods Branch until August 1972 when the yards and branch closed and the tracks were lifted.[2] The station remained in place along with its concrete sign until 2005 when the station was demolished to make way for a carpark for the new Al-Jamia Suffa-Tul-Islam Grand Mosque.
| Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
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| Great Horton | Great Northern Railway Queensbury lines | Manchester Road | ||
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