Horton Park railway station was a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a prep ...

on the Queensbury-Bradford section of the

Queensbury Lines The Queensbury lines was the name given to a number of railway lines in West Yorkshire, England, that linked Bradford, Halifax and Keighley via Queensbury. All the lines were either solely owned by the Great Northern Railway (GNR) or jointly ...

which ran between Bradford,

Keighley Keighley ( ) is a market town and a civil parish in the City of Bradford Borough of West Yorkshire, England. It is the second largest settlement in the borough, after Bradford. Keighley is north-west of Bradford city centre, north-west of ...

and Halifax via Queensbury. The station was built near to the Bradford Park Avenue football ground. 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 The City Road Goods branch was a goods only branch serving the Lister Hills area of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotlan ...

until August 1972 when the yards and branch closed and the tracks were lifted. 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.

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Horton Park station on navigable 1947 O. S. map
Disused railway stations in Bradford Former Great Northern Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1880 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1952 {{Yorkshire-Humber-railstation-stub