Clayton railway station (West Yorkshire)

For the station of the same name in Melbourne, Australia, see Clayton railway station, Melbourne.
For the station Clayton West in Kirklees, see Clayton West railway station.
Clayton
Location
Place Clayton
Area City of Bradford
Coordinates 53°46′51″N 1°48′58″W / 53.780950°N 1.816030°W / 53.780950; -1.816030Coordinates: 53°46′51″N 1°48′58″W / 53.780950°N 1.816030°W / 53.780950; -1.816030
Grid reference SE122316
Operations
Original company Bradford and Thornton Railway
Pre-grouping Great Northern Railway
Post-grouping London and North Eastern Railway
Platforms 2
History
14 October 1878 (1878-10-14) Station opened
23 May 1955 (1955-05-23) Station closed
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain
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Clayton railway station was on the Great Northern Railway lines to Bradford, Keighley and Halifax via Queensbury, collectively known as the Queensbury Lines.

History

The station served the village of Clayton in West Yorkshire, England. The station had an island platform and a reasonable goods yard. The cutting and station site has been infilled and housed erected on the site. The Bradford portal of Clayton Tunnel has also been infilled. The station opened for passengers in 1878 and closed in 1955, but the goods yard and tunnel remained open as a through route to Thornton Station up until the early 1961 when it closed completely and the tracks were torn up.[1]

Clayton tunnel

Clayton tunnel lay immediately west of Clayton railway station. During the construction of the 1,057 yd (967 m) tunnel in 1874, two workers were killed when their lift fell down No1 shaft. The man operating the lift was found to be drunk at the time of the accident.[2][3] The tunnel has since been built on at its western end and, in 2012, cannabis was found being cultivated inside after a routine inspection by Network Rail.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Armour, Chris (October 2005). "Clayton railway station". Disused Stations. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
  2. ↑ "Clayton Tunnel". Forgotten relics of an enterprising age. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
  3. ↑ Priestley, Mike (16 September 2006). "Double deaths in the tunnel depths". Telegraph and Argus. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
  4. ↑ "Cannabis discovery in Clayton railway tunnel". Telegraph and Argus. 16 June 2012. Retrieved 24 November 2015.

External links

Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Queensbury   GN
Queensbury Lines		   Great Horton
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