Laisterdyke Station, Bradford - DNT00231
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On the ‘short line’ between Bradford & Leeds, built by the Leeds Bradford & Halifax Junction Railway, which opened in 1854 and was operated from the start by the Great Northern Railway who subsequently acquired it. The station opened with the line 1854 and was closed in 1966. It was a junction station as Leeds traffic from Halifax and the west avoiding Bradford on the Bowling curve joined the Bradford- Leeds line here and also just east of the station the Bradford-Wakefield Westgate line branched off, both those lines now long closed.
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Bowling Junction and Site of Station - DNT00230
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Looking in the Halifax direction with the north portal of Bowling Tunnel all but hidden by smoke. The line in the centre continues to Bradford Exchange and the line going off to the left is the Bowling Curve to Laisterdyke where it joined the Bradford – Leeds ‘short line. Until it closed to passenger traffic in 1961 Manchester Victoria – Leeds expresses, amongst some other Leeds services, used it to by-pass Bradford. Below the signal gantry is the site of Bowling Station which opened in 1902 and closed in 1951.
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