page_title: Thackley
section_title: Transport history
hierarchical_section_title: Thackley / History / Transport history
caption_attribution_description: Bradford Trolleybus turning at Thackley Corner
context_page_description: Thackley is a small suburb near Bradford, West Yorkshire in England. The village is loosely bordered by the village of Idle to the south, to the west by the West Royd area of Shipley and elsewhere by the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. Thackley is the northernmost part of Bradford south of the River Aire.
context_section_description: The Leeds and Liverpool Canal was built through the far north of Thackley in the 1770s.
  In 1845 railway construction began with the building of a two-track Thackley Railway Tunnel under Thackley Hill—in use up until 1968.
  In 1900 a second adjacent and parallel tunnel was added on the northern side of the original to create a fast passenger line and a slow goods line on the Airedale Line.
  In 1875, the Great Northern Railway opened its Shipley and Windhill Line, a 6.5 miles (10.5 km) double track branch line from Quarry Gap junction near Laisterdyke to Shipley and Windhill railway station, passing Eccleshill and Idle railway stations and Thackley railway station.
  Thackley railway station, rebuilt in 1894, is in the middle of Thackley.
  The line wasn't competitive and after 1931 it was made single line freight only, and progressively closed from 1966 to 1968.
  The route through Thackley can be easily identified today—the rails have been removed and the route is overgrown by trees but the cuttings and original railway bridges in Thackley still remain.
  A trolleybus service ran from Shipley, West Yorkshire up to its terminus at Thackley Corner in the centre of Thackley.
caption: Trolley Bus turning at Thackley Corner terminus
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