Wilsden railway station
railway station in West Yorkshire, England, UK, now closed
Wilsden railway station was a station on the Queensbury Lines which ran between Keighley, Bradford and Halifax.
History
The station was built by the Great Northern Railway in 1886, 2 miles (3.2 km) away from the village of Wilsden. It was closer to the small hamlet of Harecroft, West Yorkshire, England.
The station had two platforms and a large goods shed. It was the last station to open on the Queensbury-Keighley section of the line. Just along the line was the 300-yard (270 m) long 17 arch Hewenden Viaduct.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as railway station in West Yorkshire, England, UK, now closed. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 20, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q8022879. Authority coordinates are 53.815, -1.886. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1886.
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