Clayton railway station was on the Great Northern Railway lines to Bradford, Keighley and Halifax via Queensbury, collectively known as the Queensbury Lines. The station served the village of Clayton in West Yorkshire, England. The station had an island platform and a reasonable goods yard. The cutting and station site has been infilled and housed erected on the site. The Bradford portal of Clayton Tunnel has also been infilled. The station opened for passengewrs in 1878 and closed in 1955, but the goods yard and tunnel remained open as a through route to Thornton Station up until the early 1960s when it closed completely and the tracks were torn up.
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