1685:. After a brief heyday the routes settled down to concentrate on purely local traffic, and even this diminished when trams started running from both Bradford and Halifax to Queensbury in 1901. Buses caused a further reduction in traffic in the late 1920s and Sunday trains were withdrawn in December 1938, but by 1946 the service was still surprisingly lavish with one through coach working to King's Cross, running from Halifax to Bradford in 22 minutes. It was only after a survey showed the line was losing £48,000 a year that regular passenger trains were withdrawn on 23 May 1955. All lines west of Horton Park were completely closed by 1965, and those east of this point followed suit in 1972. Queensbury and Lees Moor tunnels were abandoned in 1956 owing to their poor state of repair.
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Thornton and Hewenden are now listed structures and sections of the Queensbury to Keighley line are already back in use for walking and cycling. A campaign to rescue Queensbury tunnel and extend the new network to Halifax through the tunnel has gathered support such that the tunnel's precise fate now remains to be seen. A route bypassing Clayton tunnel to link the walking and cycling facility with a route into Bradford has been identified and much of the remaining route to Keighley has also been studied so that plans can be developed. A development blocking the High Level route between Holmfield and Wheatley tunnel would seem to have ended any prospect of using that former railway at the present time.
1620:. St Paul's and Pellon Stations served a well-populated area of Halifax but the train service was of little value to anybody travelling south or west from Halifax. By 1898 electric trams had been introduced serving both St Paul's and Pellon. The High Level passenger service was temporarily closed at the end of 1916 because of the demand for manpower in the war effort. In fact the passenger service never resumed, though there were occasional excursions during the 1920s and 1930s. The track was singled and most of the signalling removed. The main value of the High Level line was for freight. St Paul's was at an altitude about 325 feet (99 m) higher than the
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Queensbury. There were 21 trains from Halifax for the Queensbury line and 16 starting from Keighley. On Sundays nine trains left Bradford Exchange for Halifax or Keighley. The journey from Bradford to Halifax by this route took between 35 and 40 minutes depending on the number of stops and the duration of the wait at Queensbury. This was slower than by the alternative Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway service, which was more frequent. A Great Northern train from Bradford to Keighley took 45 minutes, twice as long as the faster trains by the Midland Railway from
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part of the Worth Valley branch was relaid and doubled; the agreement marked the start of a more amicable relationship between the GNR and the
Midland. Powers for the new Keighley station and for the widening of the last part of the Worth Valley line were granted by an Act of 1882. Although agreement had been reached about a shared station, goods facilities at Keighley were kept entirely separate: the GNR built a spur line off the Worth Valley route just outside Keighley station; the spur crossed under and entered its own goods yard.
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about 400 feet (120 m). When the line opened in 1878 there was no station at
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Queensbury station operated as an interchange point, making useful local connections. At certain times of the day trains stood on all three sides of the triangle allowing connections to be made in all directions. In 1910 there were 22 weekday departures from
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incline at a gradient of 1 in 6, or a slightly more conventional locomotive-worked line, following a roundabout route. The latter would cost twice as much: it would be two miles (3.2 km) in length with a maximum gradient of 1 in 30. Work started on the new station in 1889 and a road to the town
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Queensbury, there was no station there at first; a temporary structure was built, to the east of the later East Junction on 14 April 1879. It had no goods facilities, and was reached only by a primitive and unmade footpath. The improved station, with platforms on all
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viaduct carried the line through
Halifax, with 35 spans which varied from 35 to 44 feet (11 to 13 m). A short distance beyond that, the line crossed another viaduct of 11 spans which varied from 20 to 35 feet (6 to 11 m). There were two tunnels, North Bridge (403 yards, 369 m) and Lee
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were closed to all traffic. This saved the cost of maintaining Queensbury and Lees Moor Tunnels and divided the route into three separate branch lines which were then operated with reduced signalling. The remaining operation was progressively cut back over the next 18 years. Holmfield and the High
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trains, and the GNR. The Midland Railway were amenable to this, and by an agreement of 1 June 1881, the Midland granted the GNR the necessary running powers, and agreed to make a new junction station. The agreement was in exchange for the Midland getting running powers to Halifax. The northernmost
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The Great Northern Railway (Halifax, Thornton & Keighley Railway) Act was passed on 5 August 1873. The route was to start from the almost-completed Halifax and Ovenden line at Holmfield, and join the Bradford and Thornton Railway at Queensbury, making a triangular junction there. It would then
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on 1 August 1890 and to all traffic throughout on 5 September 1890. The timetable was generally arranged so that the High Level train arrived at Holmfield to change there for Bradford. In 1910 there were 11 departures from St Paul's Mondays to Fridays, 12 on Saturdays and five on Sundays. A steam
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valley. The viaduct is 300 yards (270 m) long and rises 120 feet (37 m) from the valley floor. It was built of brick and stone quarried locally and the central piers were sunk 25 feet (8 m) underground to the foundations. Each of its 20 arches are of 40 feet (12 m) span. It is
1200:. The town is at an altitude of 1,150 feet (351 m) above sea level. The weaving industry had flourished in this inhospitable location because of coal supplies in the immediate area; these were originally plentiful but there were now fears that the deposits were nearing the end of their life.
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would step in, getting access to Halifax, if the GNR held back. Accordingly, the Bradford and Thornton Railway Act was passed on 24 July 1871, sponsored by the GNR, and the undertaking was transferred to and vested in the GNR by Act of 18 July 1872. The authorised construction was 5 miles
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at a Central Station in George Square, Halifax. In addition there would be a local branch to St Paul's, also in the high level part of Halifax. The Huddersfield part of the project was abandoned as too expensive, and the railway was authorised as the Halifax High Level & North & South
1299:-mile (3.6 km) line was almost entirely within Queensbury Tunnel or the massive Strines Cutting. Considerable trouble was encountered with water-bearing strata during construction. Goods trains started running on 14 October 1878, the same day that Thornton station opened to passengers.
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obtained on 1 August 1870, sanctioning a second extension of time, and vesting the undertaking jointly in the GNR and L&YR. The concern was then renamed the Halifax and Ovenden Joint Railway. Soon afterwards, construction began from a junction with the L&YR at the north end of
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station on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway was opened in 1844. The main station, opened later, is approached from the north-east by a tunnel: it is located at the bottom of the town, which is hilly. From 1854 the Great Northern Railway had running powers to Halifax over the
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on 4 December 1876. The short branch line to City Road goods depot opened on the same day; both openings were for goods traffic only. The short extension to Clayton followed on 9 July 1877 or on 9 August 1877. The next stage was dependent on completion of Clayton Tunnel and
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and Queensbury; this would connect industrial locations hitherto not served by railways. The project had already been cut back in scope from an earlier project to reach Keighley, on the grounds that such a line would be unaffordable, due to the difficult terrain.
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Bradford-Thornton trains and completion of the long-awaited Halifax route gave the station a great deal of importance on account of its junction status. Initially, a daily service of six trains each way was provided between Bradford and Halifax.
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in 1910. Four streets of temporary houses were built in Queensbury for the construction workers; although supposedly temporary, the buildings were not condemned until 1957. The tunnel work was completed on 31 July 1878.
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terrain rises steeply to a plateau around 1,000 feet (300 m) above sea level, with numerous steep-sided valleys: an area of exceptional difficulty for railways. Nevertheless, it included a large area of
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section. Authorised capital was £360,000. The line would be worked jointly by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway and the Great Northern Railway, although the L&YR only ran goods trains on the route.
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started on 1 January 1884. The line was opened to Keighley goods depot on 1 April 1884, but the joint passenger station at Keighley was not ready. From 7 April 1884 GNR passenger trains were extended to
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frustrated progress with construction. The intention had been for the line to pass through a series of cuttings, but the persistence of these earth slips forced the GNR to substitute two short tunnels.
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1677:. At first the GNR provided the fastest service from Keighley to London in 4 hours 55 minutes by a Keighley–Bradford train, stopping only at St Dunstan's to connect with a
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through the tunnel was instituted to enable the work to proceed. Normal working was able to resume on 9 September 1883 and no further problems were encountered.
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stations closed in September 1952, and less than three years later, the entire passenger service was withdrawn. In May 1956 the sections between Queensbury and
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in January 1879 meant that Leeds connections were available there, and the Laisterdyke trains were soon taken off, while the Bradford service was increased.
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2490:The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, volume 1
2455:, Matador Publishers, Kibworth Beauchamp, 2017,
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2568:Longitudinal section of Queensbury Tunnel, 2014
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2360:Whitaker and Cryer, page 16
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1978:Whitaker and Cryer, page 6
1509:United Kingdom legislation
1463:United Kingdom legislation
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1134:Woodside (Old Lane) Tunnel
987:Halifax High Level Railway
1628:Queensbury tunnel problem
1557:Hull and Barnsley Railway
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1153:Thornton, West Yorkshire
2448:, Cassell, London, 1959
1226:still (2019) standing.
1002:triangular track layout
978:to Queensbury and from
928:, England, that linked
496:Clayton Tunnel (Yorks)
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1824:Halifax to Queensbury
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2416:Awdry, Christopher,
1793:Cullingworth Viaduct
1709:Bradford to Keighley
1353:Cullingworth Viaduct
1311:North Bridge station
1309:within a fortnight.
1235:St Dunstan's station
18:The Queensbury Lines
2218:Joy, pages 90 to 94
1640:Decline and closure
1634:Single-line working
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680:Halifax (St Paul's)
2546:Wrottesley, John,
2532:Wrottesley, John,
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1962:Marshall, page 60
1866:Queensbury Tunnel
1606:57 & 58 Vict.
1570:47 & 48 Vict.
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1715:St Dunstan's
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1660:and between
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1683:Laisterdyke
1675:Aire Valley
1654:Horton Park
1622:Old Station
1616:across the
1419:rope-worked
1231:Laisterdyke
1198:John Foster
1179:Laisterdyke
854:Laisterdyke
844:St Dunstans
712:Horton Park
2577:Categories
2512:Cryer, Bob
1951:References
1874:; (above).
1872:Queensbury
1751:Queensbury
1223:Pinch Beck
1045:The first
1008:Background
998:Queensbury
942:Queensbury
792:to Halifax
443:Queensbury
1915:Holmfield
1885:St Paul's
1860:Holmfield
1658:Holmfield
1646:peak-hour
1586:St Paul's
1503:c. ccxlii
1367:landslips
1307:Holmfield
1196:, run by
1187:City Road
1087:Holmfield
1027:Yorkshire
976:Holmfield
751:City Road
502:Holmfield
2514:(1984).
1917:; above.
1817:Keighley
1775:Denholme
1763:Thornton
1704:Stations
1610:Wheatley
1582:50 Vict.
1547:50 Vict.
1542:Citation
1496:Citation
1437:tramways
1375:Denholme
1359:Denholme
1338:Hertford
1091:gradient
1067:Keighley
1063:Thornton
980:Thornton
938:Keighley
930:Bradford
399:Thornton
377:Denholme
141:Keighley
2411:Sources
1854:Ovenden
1830:Halifax
1781:Wilsden
1739:Clayton
1614:viaduct
1549:c. xliv
1363:Wilsden
1294:⁄
1158:Clayton
1126:England
1118:Halifax
1114:Ovenden
1095:masonry
1056:Ovenden
1047:Halifax
1022:Pennine
934:Halifax
719:Ovenden
527:Clayton
355:Wilsden
218:Shipley
109:Skipton
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1891:Pellon
1811:Ingrow
1666:Ingrow
1594:Pellon
1380:Ingrow
643:Pellon
68:Legend
2404:Quick
1922:Notes
1336:near
1183:Leeds
974:from
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1664:and
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