Queensbury lines

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Leeds & Bradford Extn Rly to Skipton Keighley to Ingrow (West) Leeds & Bradford Extn Rly to Shipley Keighley Goods (GN) Ingrow (East) Lees Moor Tunnel Cullingworth Hewenden Viaduct Wilsden Denholme Thornton Thornton Viaduct Queensbury Queensbury Tunnel Clayton Tunnel (Yorks) Holmfield Clayton Wheatley Tunnel Great Horton Wheatley Viaduct Lee Bank Tunnel Pellon Old Lane Tunnel Halifax (St Paul's) Horton Park Ovenden City Road North Bridge Manchester Road to Halifax St Dunstans to Laisterdyke to Bradford Exchange

The Queensbury lines was the name given to a number of railway lines in West Yorkshire, England, that linked Bradford, Halifax and Keighley via Queensbury. All the lines were either solely owned by the Great Northern Railway (GNR) or jointly by the GNR and the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR). The terrain was extremely challenging for railway construction, and the lines were very expensive to build. The lines were

• the Halifax and Ovenden Junction Railway,^{[note 1]} opened from 1874;
• the Bradford and Thornton Railway, opened in stages from 1876;
• the Halifax, Thornton and Keighley Railway from Holmfield to Queensbury and from Thornton to Keighley, opened in stages from 1878;
• the Halifax High Level Railway, opened from 1890, but closed to passengers in 1917.

For some time the network was busy, both for passengers and goods, but carryings declined steeply, and passenger services were discontinued in 1955. Goods traffic ceased in 1974.

The lines were marked with a number of major civil engineering works including several viaducts and tunnels. A feature of the line was the unusual station at Queensbury, which was on a triangular track layout, with two platforms on each of the three chords.
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