Thackley railway station

Coordinates: 53°50′36″N 1°44′08″W / 53.84324°N 1.73567°W

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Thackley
General information
Location	Thackley, City of Bradford England
Coordinates	53°50′36″N 1°44′08″W / 53.84324°N 1.73567°W / 53.84324; -1.73567
Grid reference	SE174385
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Great Northern Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Northern Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
1 March 1878	Opened
2 February 1931	Closed (passenger)
7 October 1968	Closed (line)

Bradford Lines

Legend

Leeds & Bradford Extn Rly

to Skipton

to Skipton

Keighley (GN)

Burley-in-Wharfedale

Menston

Guiseley

Ingrow West

Ingrow East

Crossflatts

Damems

Cullingworth

Wilsden

Shipley

Oxenhope

Thornton

to Halifax

Frizinghall

Clayton

Manningham

Great Horton

Airedale line

to Leeds

Manchester Road

St Dunstans

Bradford Adolphus St

Thackley

Bowling

Calder Valley line

to Leeds

to Leeds

Dudley Hill

Birkenshaw and Tong

Pudsey loop line railway

to Leeds

Low Moor│

Low Moor

Goods

Spen Valley line

to Mirfield

Wyke and Norwood Green

Calder Valley line

to Halifax

Thackley railway station was a railway station in Thackley, West Yorkshire, England.^[1]

History

During the 1860s, two small railway companies were formed to promote suburban railways in Bradford, the Bradford, Eccleshill and Idle Railway and the Idle and Shipley Railway. Their schemes - and the companies themselves - were taken up by the Great Northern Railway, which built a line looping through the villages to the north-east of Bradford: from Laisterdyke, through Eccleshill, Idle and Thackley to Shipley.

The line was open to goods traffic on 4 May 1874, and to passengers on 18 January 1875.^[2]

Thackley railway station was rebuilt in 1890–1894.^[3]

Passenger service on the line ceased on 2 February 1931 and the passenger station closed, though goods traffic continued on the whole line until October 1964 and between Shipley and Idle until 1968.^[4]

The line is now a public footpath, with only ruined buildings and partially demolished platforms at track level to show that this was a railway station.^[5] The 1894 building still exists and is now a private dwelling, situated next to the 1874 humped back Crag Hill Road bridge.

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Shipley and Windhill		GNR Shipley and Windhill Line		Idle

References

^ Whitaker, Alan; Myland, Brian. Railway Memories No. 4: Bradford. Bellcode books. ISBN 1-871233-03-8.
^ Bairstow, Martin (1999). The Great Northern Railway in the East Riding. Martin Bairstow. ISBN 1-871944-19-8.
^ "Bradford.gov.uk - Thackley, Bradford Potential Conservation Area Report" (PDF). May 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 17 June 2009.
^ Joy, David (1984). A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain Volume VIII South and West Yorkshire. David St John Thomas. ISBN 0-946537-11-9.
^ "Disused Stations". Subterranea Britannica.

v t e Railway stations in the City of Bradford
National Rail	Apperley Bridge Baildon Ben Rhydding Bingley Bradford Forster Square Bradford Interchange Burley-in-Wharfedale Crossflatts Frizinghall Ilkley Keighley Low Moor Menston Saltaire Shipley Steeton and Silsden
Heritage lines	Damems Haworth Ingrow (West) Keighley Oakworth Oxenhope
Disused stations	Addingham Birkenshaw and Tong Bowling Bowling Junction Bradford Adolphus Street Bradford Exchange Clayton Cullingworth Denholme Dudley Hill Eccleshill Esholt Great Horton Horton Park Idle Idle (L&B) Ingrow (East) Laisterdyke Manchester Road Manningham Queensbury Shipley and Windhill St Dunstans Thackley Thornton Thwaites Wilsden Wyke and Norwood Green
See also	Bradford Crossrail City Road Goods Branch Shipley Glen Tramway

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