page_title: Leeds, Bradford and Halifax Junction Railway
section_title: Bradford improvements
hierarchical_section_title: Leeds, Bradford and Halifax Junction Railway / Bradford improvements
caption_attribution_description: English: System map of the Leeds, Bradford and Halifax Junction Railway, in Yorkshire, England, in 1865
context_page_description: The Leeds, Bradford and Halifax Junction Railway was an English railway company. It built a line between Bradford and Leeds, and had running powers over the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway to Halifax. It opened its main line in 1854 and later built a number of branch lines.
  It was worked by the Great Northern Railway, giving that company the access it needed to Bradford and Halifax, and the GNR absorbed the LB&HJR in 1865.
  The line between Leeds and Bradford continues in use at the present day, but the rest of the LB&HJR network has closed.
context_section_description: By 1863 the goods traffic at Bradford, especially wool bales inwards, was overwhelming the facilities at the Adolphus Street station; the platforms were choked with consignments of wool waiting to be collected by merchants, who used railway premises as a free warehouse. Additional sidings were completed in 1864, but a scheme to spend a considerable sum on further enlargement was deferred. To relieve the situation, it was decided to transfer passenger traffic to the L&YR station, St George's (later named Bradford Exchange).
  GNR trains on the LB&HJR could only reach St George's station by reversal at Bowling Junction, so an Act was obtained on 14 July 1864 to authorise the LB&HJR to build a connecting line, from Hammerton Street junction on the Bradford branch to Mill Lane junction on the L&YR. The line was double, and only 57 chains long, but included Wakefield Road tunnel (132 yards (121 m)). The line was opened on 7 January 1867, (after the LB&HJR had been absorbed by the GNR,) and Adolphus Street station was given over to goods and mineral traffic. Use of the L&YR St George's station cost the GNR £1,500 a year plus a toll. The accommodation there was cramped, and the working of trains on the approach was restricted, so the arrangement was not entirely satisfactory.
caption: Leeds, Bradford and Halifax Junction Railway lines in 1865
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