Horton Park railway station

Horton Park
Location
Place	Great Horton
Area	City of Bradford
Coordinates	53°47′05″N 1°46′14″W / 53.78464°N 1.77056°WCoordinates: 53°47′05″N 1°46′14″W / 53.78464°N 1.77056°W
Grid reference	SE152320
Operations
Original company	Bradford and Thornton Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Northern Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Platforms	2
History
23 October 1880	Station opened
15 September 1952	Station closed
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Horton Park railway station was a railway station on the Queensbury-Bradford section of the Queensbury Lines which ran between Bradford, Keighley and Halifax via Queensbury.

The station was built near to the Bradford Park Avenue football 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 the City 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
Great Horton		GN Queensbury Lines		Manchester Road

References

1. "Location". Bradford FC. BFC. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
2. Armour, Chris. "Horton park". Disused Stations. Retrieved 24 November 2015.

External links

• Horton Park station on navigable 1947 O. S. map