Beeston railway station (West Yorkshire) was a railway station situated on the Great Northern Railway on the southern outskirts of

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, England.

History

Beeston railway station was south of

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and was opened by the Bradford, Wakefield and Leeds Railway in 1860. The line opened to traffic in 1857 and Beeston was opened 3 years later. The heavily engineered branch to Batley was built south of Beeston in 1890 (it crossed the Wakefield line twice and had a flying junction for Leeds bound traffic) and provided Tingley with a four way junction. The station was built in the middle of a very elongated four way junction with trains able to go north to Leeds Central via Holbeck or

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via Bramley. Southwards directions were to Tingley as described above and to Ardsley then

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. In pre- Beeching days, the station was served by the Leeds Circular service that left Leeds Central calling at Holbeck, Beeston, Ardsley, Lofthouse & Outwood,

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, Dewsbury, Batley Carr, Batley,

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, Beeston, Holbeck and back to Leeds Central. These services amounted to seven trains daily in each direction and lasted between 1890 and 1938. The station closed on 2 March 1953, some four months before the Tingley line succumbed to closure. The route is still open as part of the Leeds arm of the East Coast Main Line, Cross Country line and local services on the Wakefield Line.

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*{{cite book , last=Bairstow , first=Martin , title=The Great Northern Railway in the West Riding , location=Farsley, West Yorkshire, UK , publisher=Bairstow , year=1999 , isbn=1-871944-19-8 Disused railway stations in Leeds Former Great Northern Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1860 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1953 1860 establishments in England