Idle railway station (Leeds and Bradford Railway)

Idle
Idle
General information
Location	Idle, City of Bradford; England
Coordinates	53°50′45″N 1°44′38″W / 53.845770°N 1.743960°W
Grid reference	SE169388
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Leeds and Bradford Railway
Key dates
1847	opened
1848	closed

Idle railway station was a short-lived station serving Idle, near Bradford, West Yorkshire, England.

It was built by the Leeds and Bradford Railway in 1847, but it was closed the next year.^[1] It was located near the west entrance of the Thackley Tunnel. This station was very much closer to Thackley than to Idle.

Later, in 1875 another Idle station was built, on the Great Northern Railway's Shipley Windhill Line.

References

^ Young, Alan (2015). Lost stations of Yorkshire - the West Riding. Kettering: Silver Link Publishing. p. 14. ISBN 978-1-85794-438-9. Retrieved 3 December 2015.

Whitaker, Alan & Myland, Brian, 1993 Railway Memories No. 4: Bradford. Bellcode Books, ISBN 1-871233-03-8
Bairstow, Martin 2004 Railways Through Airedale & Wharfedale. ISBN 1-871944-28-7

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Shipley		Leeds and Bradford 1847–1848		Apperley Bridge

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[1] Young, Alan (2015). Lost stations of Yorkshire - the West Riding. Kettering: Silver Link Publishing. p. 14. ISBN 978-1-85794-438-9. Retrieved 3 December 2015.

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