Area City of Bradford Pre-grouping GNR Platforms in use 2 | Grid reference SE186361 Post-grouping L&NER | |
Place Eccleshill, West Yorkshire Original company Idle and Shipley Railway Similar Thackley railway station, Shipley and Windhill r, St Dunstans railway st, Coronation Chair | ||
Eccleshill railway station was a railway station in Eccleshill, West Yorkshire, England.
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. Eccleshill railway station opened on 15 April 1875.
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.