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    Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway was an early British railway company in the West Riding of Yorkshire. It built a line from Shipley near Bradford...
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    The Leeds, Bradford and Halifax Junction Railway (LB&HJR) was an English railway company. It built a line between Bradford and Leeds, and had running...
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  • Thumbnail for Bradford, Wakefield and Leeds Railway
    The Bradford, Wakefield and Leeds Railway was an independent railway company that built a line between Wakefield and a junction close to Leeds, in Yorkshire...
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    the Wharfedale line to Ilkley and the Leeds-Bradford line to Leeds. The other main railway station in the city is Bradford Interchange, which is about 10...
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  • Thumbnail for Leeds Bradford Airport
    (11 km) northwest of Leeds city centre, and about 9 miles (14 km) northeast from Bradford city centre. It serves Leeds and Bradford and the wider Yorkshire...
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    When the Leeds and Bradford Railway built the first railway link into Bradford in 1846, they did not take the shortest route, but a flatter and slightly...
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    between Leeds City and Shipley was opened by the Leeds and Bradford Railway on 1 July 1846, and extended to Skipton by the Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway...
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  • The Leeds and Bradford Railway Company (L&BR) opened a railway line between the towns on 1 July 1846. It extended its line from Shipley through Keighley...
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  • June 1846 to build a railway from Skipton on the Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway to Low Gill on the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, to carry Yorkshire-to-Scotland...
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    on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway. Keighley station was first opened by the Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway (LBER), on a site slightly further...
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    opened on 7 September 1847 by the Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway, as a temporary terminus of its line from Bradford. The line was extended to Colne...
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  • Thumbnail for Elslack railway station
    Elslack railway station once served the small village of Elslack in North Yorkshire, England. The station was built by the Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway...
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    1897) Leeds and Bradford Railway (leased 1846, absorbed 1851) Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway (absorbed 1851) Leicester and Swannington Railway (absorbed...
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  • Thumbnail for Leeds railway station
    Leeds railway station (also known as Leeds City railway station) is the mainline railway station serving the city centre of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England...
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    of Bradford Forster Square. The original station was opened in May 1856 by the Midland Railway, which had absorbed the Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway...
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  • Thumbnail for Thornton-in-Craven railway station
    the Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway between Colne, Skipton and Bradford. The station was built by the Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway and opened...
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  • Thumbnail for Bingley railway station
    Bradford Forster Square, on the Airedale line; services are operated by Northern Trains. The Leeds and Bradford Railway opened the Leeds and Bradford...
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  • Thumbnail for Kildwick and Crosshills railway station
    Kildwick and Sutton-in-Craven. The station was opened in late 1847 by the Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway, located between Cononley and Steeton and Silsden...
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  • France opens between Abbeville and Étaples. March 16 – The Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway opens between Shipley and Keighley in West Yorkshire, England...
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    of the Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway from Bradford and Skipton. The station became an end-on junction with the East Lancashire Railway's Blackburn...
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    City of Leeds local government area has 16 railway stations. A parkway station serving Leeds Bradford Airport and two other new stations in the area, planned...
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  • Thumbnail for Bradford Interchange
    Bradford Interchange is a transport interchange in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, which consists of a railway station and bus station adjacent. The...
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  • Thumbnail for Cononley railway station
    cost of £900, by the Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway. It was closed on 22 March 1965, though its platforms remained intact and the main buildings survived...
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  • Devon Railway (England) ceases after less than a year of operation. October 2 – The Skipton to Colne section of the Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway opened...
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  • tourists. January 5 - Foulridge railway station closes on the Midland Railway (originally the Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway) in Lancashire, England. February...
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  • Thumbnail for Earby railway station
    The station was built by the Midland Railway, on the former Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway between Skipton and Colne; it opened in 1848. The main...
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  • Thumbnail for Manchester and Leeds Railway
    The Manchester and Leeds Railway was a British railway company that built a line from Manchester to Normanton where it made a junction with the North...
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  • Thumbnail for Leeds Northern Railway
    The Leeds Northern Railway (LNR), until 1851 the Leeds and Thirsk Railway, was an English railway company that built and opened a line from Leeds to Stockton...
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  • Thumbnail for Barnoldswick railway station
    served the market town of Barnoldswick. The line left the Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway at Barnoldswick Junction 55 chains (3,600 ft; 1,100 m) from...
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  • Thumbnail for Steeton and Silsden railway station
    and is on the Airedale Line. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by Northern. Steeton & Silsden was opened by the Leeds and Bradford...
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