page_title: Otley and Ilkley Joint Railway
hierarchical_section_title: Otley and Ilkley Joint Railway
caption_attribution_description: English: A Bradford-bound metro train rolls down the tracks past a disused connecting line at the old Milnerwood Junction, near Burley station in Yorkshire. Part of the railway is still open, forming what is now known as the Wharfedale Line. It used to connect to Otley via two seperate points in a triangular formation to support both north and south bound locomotives. The place depicted in this image was the northwestern node of Milnerwood. You can find the original high resolution copy of the photograph online in this set of images.
context_page_description: The Otley and Ilkley Joint Railway was a railway line running between the towns of Otley and Ilkley in West Yorkshire. The line was managed and run jointly by the Midland Railway and the North Eastern Railway and was 6 ¹⁄₂ miles long. Opened to passenger traffic on 1 August 1865 and freight traffic some months later, the line ran for almost 100 years before partial closure in July 1965 when the line to Otley closed. Today passenger services still run over the rest of the line as part of the West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive Wharfedale Line.
context_section_description: The Otley and Ilkley Joint Railway was a railway line running between the towns of Otley and Ilkley in West Yorkshire.  The line was managed and run jointly by the Midland Railway (MR) and the North Eastern Railway (NER) and was 6 ¹⁄₂ miles (10 km) long.  Opened to passenger traffic on 1 August 1865 and freight traffic some months later, the line ran for almost 100 years before partial closure in July 1965 when the line to Otley closed.  Today passenger services still run over the rest of the line as part of the West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive (WYPTE) Wharfedale Line.
caption: Milnerwood Junction.
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