The City Road Goods branch was a goods only branch serving the Lister Hills area of Bradford

Bradford

Bradford lies at the heart of the City of Bradford, a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, in Northern England. It is situated in the foothills of the Pennines, west of Leeds, and northwest of Wakefield. Bradford became a municipal borough in 1847, and received its charter as a city in 1897...

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West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county within the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England with a population of 2.2 million. West Yorkshire came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972....

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

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History

Proposed as part of the Bradford and Thornton Railways Act (1865), later withdrawn but then incorporated (24 July 1871) and amalgamated with the Great Northern Railway

Great Northern Railway (Great Britain)

The Great Northern Railway was a British railway company established by the Great Northern Railway Act of 1846. On 1 January 1923 the company lost its identity as a constituent of the newly formed London and North Eastern Railway....

 (18 July 1872). The line to City Road from St Dunstans

St Dunstans railway station

St Dunstans railway station is a closed station in the city of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England.-History:When the Leeds, Bradford and Halifax Junction Railway arrived in Bradford they initially built a terminus at Adolphus Street...

 opened on 4 December 1876 and consisted of a branch from just east of Horton Park

Horton Park railway station

Horton Park railway station was a railway station on the Queensbury-Bradford section of the Queensbury Lines which ran between Bradford, Keighley and Halifax via Queensbury. The station was built to serve the nearby football ground. It opened for passengers in 1880 closed for regular passenger...

at Horton Junction travelling north for 1.25 miles (2 km). It closed when goods services were withdrawn from the stub of the St Dunstans to Thornton line on 26 August 1972.

The warehouses were converted into offices of a haulage company however they were destroyed in a fire in the 1980s.