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Laisterdyke railway station is a closed station in the city of
The station was closed to passengers on 4 July 1966, on the same day as the line to Ardsley. The platforms were subsequently demolished. Only the station house remains on the top of the cutting south of the tracks, and a siding serves a scrap yard west of the former passenger station.
Laisterdyke East Signal Box diagramLaisterdyke West Signal Box diagram
Disused railway stations in Bradford Former Great Northern Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1854 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1966 {{Yorkshire-Humber-railstation-stub
Bradford
Bradford is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Bradford district in West Yorkshire, England. The city is in the Pennines' eastern foothills on the banks of the Bradford Beck. Bradford had a population of 349,561 at the 2011 ...
, West Yorkshire
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, England
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, that served the suburb
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of the same name.
History
The station was opened on 1 August 1854 on theLeeds, Bradford and Halifax Junction Railway
The Leeds, Bradford and Halifax Junction Railway (LB&HJR) was an English railway company. It built a line between Bradford and Leeds, and had running powers over the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway to Halifax. It opened its main line in 1854 ...
's Leeds to line. Three years later, a second route from the station to via and Morley (Top) was opened by the same company, making the station a junction of some importance. Further construction by the ambitious Great Northern led to the addition of branches to Wakefield via Adwalton and in 1864, Shipley in 1875 and Pudsey (Greenside) in 1893. The facilities provided here were consequently quite generous, with four platforms, two signal boxes and a sizeable goods yard. The branch to Shipley was an early casualty of road competition, losing its passenger service in February 1931. The other routes survived to be taken into British Railways
British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most of the overground rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the Big Four British rai ...
ownership upon nationalisation
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in 1948. Both, however, succumbed to the Beeching Axe
The Beeching cuts (also Beeching Axe) was a plan to increase the efficiency of the nationalised railway system in Great Britain. The plan was outlined in two reports: ''The Reshaping of British Railways'' (1963) and ''The Development of the ...
in the mid-1960s, with services on the Pudsey Loop and to Wakefield via Batley services ending in 1964, and those via Ardsley to following suit two years later.
The station was closed to passengers on 4 July 1966, on the same day as the line to Ardsley. The platforms were subsequently demolished. Only the station house remains on the top of the cutting south of the tracks, and a siding serves a scrap yard west of the former passenger station.
Route
References
External links
Laisterdyke East Signal Box diagram
Disused railway stations in Bradford Former Great Northern Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1854 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1966 {{Yorkshire-Humber-railstation-stub