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Skipton Branch (Leeds and Bradford Railway)

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Locations along the line

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Shipley

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After two days of almost non-stop rain, especially on Tuesday, 19th September, it was a beautiful sunny morning when the ex-10.30 Northern service ...
David Bosher 21/09/2023

A Bradford Forster Square to Ilkley service arrives at Shipley on 26 February 2022. This is the south to east platform which is also used by trains ...
John McIntyre 26/02/2022

153316 and 142023 call at Shipley station on 21st October 2016 with a Leeds to Morecambe (via Wennington) service. The train is in the 1979 built ...
Mark Bartlett 21/10/2016

Shipley Bingley Junction signal box, looking towards Bradford Forster Square in 1988. By this date a further platform had been constructed on the Down ...
Bill Roberton //1988

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Leeds Junction

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See also
Leeds and Bradford Railway
Shipley Branch (Great Northern Railway)
Leeds Extension (North Midland Railway)

Bingley Junction

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Saltaire

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158853 passes Saltaire with a Leeds to Morecambe service on 26 February 2022. The former textile mill of Sir Titus Salt, now a visitor attraction, can ...
John McIntyre 26/02/2022

333004 leaves Saltaire station heading for Shipley and Bradford Forster Square on 23rd September 2017. In the background is the famous Salts Mill, ...
Mark Bartlett 23/09/2017

SR 4-6-0 no 850 Lord Nelson eastbound with a special at Nab Wood in September 1982 approaching Saltaire station. ...
David Pesterfield /09/1982

Saltaire station, seen from nearby Salt's Mill, as 333014 leaves for Keighley and Skipton. The station was closed from 1965 to 1984 but is now very ...
Mark Bartlett 19/04/2013

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Bingley

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Trains call at Bingley on 26 February 2022. On the left is 333013 on an early afternoon Leeds to Skipton service while on the right is 158755 on a ...
John McIntyre 26/02/2022

West Yorkshire EMU 333014 pauses at Bingley on its way from Skipton to Bradford Forster Square. Bingley enjoys half hourly EMU services to/from ...
Mark Bartlett 11/08/2012

Bingley station looking north from the northern portal of Bingley Tunnel. ...
Ewan Crawford 21/11/2006

Pulling away from Bingley for Keighley and Skipton is EMU 333012. On the right, just in front of the Damart Mill, is the Leeds Liverpool canal with ...
Mark Bartlett 11/08/2012

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Crossflatts

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333016 on a Leeds to Skipton calls at Crossflatts on 26 February 2022. The station opened in 1982. ...
John McIntyre 26/02/2022

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Thwaites

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Keighley

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333007 from Leeds to Skipton, heading away from camera as it departs from Keighley on 15th July 2023. ...
David Bosher 15/07/2023

BR Standard Class 2 2-6-0 no. 78022 (1954) waiting to depart from Keighley station with the 17.30 and final Worth Valley service of the day to ...
David Bosher 15/07/2023

Double chimneyed 45596 'Bahamas' on the climb out of Keighley during the KWVR Gala on 11 March 2023.
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Doug Nicholls 11/03/2023

Keighley station, Worth Valley Railway, looking towards Oxenhope, at lunchtime on Saturday, 15th July 2023. The National Rail platforms are out of ...
David Bosher 15/07/2023

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Keighley [1st]

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Steeton and Silsden

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Northern EMU 333001 calls at Steeton and Silsden on 26 September 2020 with a service from Skipton to Bradford Forster Square. The station opened here ...
John McIntyre 26/09/2020

Steeton and Silsden looking south east in 2006 from the bridge which replaced the level crossing. The line to Skipton had been electrified in the mid ...
Ewan Crawford 10/09/2006

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Steeton and Silsden [2nd]

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Kildwick and Cross Hills [1st]

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Opened in 1847 as Kildwick, it was renamed in 1863 as Kildwick and Cross Hills. By 1884 it had become Kildwick and Crosshills. Five years later the ...
John McIntyre 26/09/2020

The goods shed at Kildwick and Cross Hills (Kildwick and Crosshills from 1884) still stands in 2020, currently in use as a vehicle servicing and ...
John McIntyre 26/09/2020

The large station building at Kildwick and Cross Hills (1st location), closed when the station was relocated around 500 yards to the west in 1889. The ...
John McIntyre 26/09/2020

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Kildwick and Crosshills [2nd]

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The site of the second station at Kildwick and Crosshills, viewed west from Station Rd bridge on 26 September 2020. The station moved around 500 yards ...
John McIntyre 26/09/2020

Looking over the gate on station road to the footpath that led down to the up platform of the second Kildwick and Crosshills station on 26 September ...
John McIntyre 26/09/2020

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Cononley

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RHTT 37s. DRS 37716 running 83 minutes late heads 3S29 08:27 York Thrall Europa to York Thrall Europa via Hellifield on the return leg passing ...
Stephen Willetts 22/10/2023

333015 approaches Cononley with a service from Skipton to Leeds on 16 February 2019. ...
John McIntyre 16/02/2019

333008 departs from Cononley on 16 February 2019 whilst working a Skipton to Bradford Foster Square service. ...
John McIntyre 16/02/2019

Reopening works taking place at Cononley Station, near Skipton, in 1988 as a first generation DMU heads towards Leeds. Note the crossing cabin at the ...
David Pesterfield 22/03/1988

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Skipton [1st]

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Skipton Branch (Leeds and Bradford Railway)

Introduction

Locations along the line

Shipley

Leeds Junction

Bingley Junction

Saltaire

Bingley

Crossflatts

Thwaites

Keighley

Keighley [1st]

Steeton and Silsden

Steeton and Silsden [2nd]

Kildwick and Cross Hills [1st]

Kildwick and Crosshills [2nd]

Cononley

Skipton [1st]

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