Ardsley railway station

Ardsley
LNER C14 7450 at Ardsley locomotive depot in 1947
Location
Place	East Ardsley
Area	City of Leeds
Coordinates	53°43′57″N 1°32′16″W / 53.732600°N 1.537800°W / 53.732600; -1.537800Coordinates: 53°43′57″N 1°32′16″W / 53.732600°N 1.537800°W / 53.732600; -1.537800
Grid reference	SE305263
Operations
Original company	Bradford, Wakefield and Leeds Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Northern Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Platforms	2
History
5 October 1857	Station opens
2 November 1964	Station closes
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
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Ardsley railway station was situated on the Great Northern Railway between Tingley and Lofthouse and Outwood on the main line and west of Stanley on the LNER & LMS Methley Joint Railway. It was built to served the village of East Ardsley near Wakefield in the English county of West Yorkshire.

The station was opened by the Bradford, Wakefield and Leeds Railway on 5 October 1857 as part of their Wakefield to Leeds main line. Five days later, it became a junction with the completion of a branch line to Bradford via Morley by the Leeds, Bradford and Halifax Junction Railway. Both lines soon became part of the rapidly expanding Great Northern Railway network in the area and by 1866 the opening of the jointly-owned West Riding and Grimsby Railway from Wakefield to Doncaster put the station on the main line between Leeds and London Kings Cross. The GNR subsequently became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The line then passed on to the Eastern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. The station was eventually closed by the British Railways Board on 2 November 1964 as part of the Beeching cutbacks, with the line to Bradford following suit on 4 July 1966.