Addingham railway station

Addingham
The site of Addingham railway station, now Old Station Fisheries.
Location
Place	Addingham
Area	City of Bradford
Coordinates	53.9438°N 1.8836°W / 53.9438; -1.8836
Grid reference	SE077497
Operations
Pre-grouping	Midland Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Platforms	2
History
16 May 1888	Opened
22 March 1965	Closed to passengers
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z

Addingham railway station was on the Midland Railway route from Skipton to Ilkley. It served the village of Addingham in West Yorkshire, England.

History

Opened by the Midland Railway, it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. Passing on to the Eastern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948, it was then closed by the British Railways Board as part of the Beeching Axe in March 1965. It was demolished several years later and the site is now a housing estate. The bridge and abutments have also been demolished,

But there are plans to rebuild them as part of the E&BASR's extension to Addingham and also a replica LMS style station on the embankment and on a rebuilt bridge abutment which also planned to be rebuild as part of the heritage lines extension plan.

Preservation

There are plans in the future to extend the Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway back to Addingham to a replica LMS style station on the embankment a few metres near the station site on a soon to be rebuilt bridge abutment.

The original Addingham railway station on the now removed embankment has since been demolished and redeveloped for housing, only the embankment (a few metres from the site) remains where the replica LMS Midland style station will be built along with a rebuilt bridge abutment of the old Addingham railway bridge.

The picture showing Addingham Station Fisheries is where the railway bridge crossed Addingham Main Street. The actual Addingham station was about 200yards further up the road on the left hand side. Unfortunately this has houses built there but the original goods yard is still used as an entrance drive to the houses built there and some of the old boundary walls still exist from Victoria terrace side.

References

• Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199. 
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687. 
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137. 
• Station on navigable O.S. map

External links

• Bolton Abbey to Addingham on the Embsay website
• Addingham Station on the Embsay website
• Sustrans plan involving the trackbed

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Bolton Abbey		Midland Railway Skipton to Ilkley Line		Ilkley