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One of the rare British examples of stations built round three sides of a triangle is Queensbury, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, 4¾ miles from Bradford Exchange.
The station is remarkable in having six independent sets of railway offices, all of them timber structures of typical Great Northern outline which include waiting rooms and lavatories; in addition, a booking office and other station buildings stand on an overbridge at the Bradford corner of the triangle. Platforms for the most part and platform fences almost entirely, are of timber, and timber maintenance must have been a considerable item in relation to the modest traffic now handled at the station.
The Bradford – Keighley side of the triangle is carried in part on a three-arch stone and masonry viaduct; and at the Halifax end a subway is provided to connect the four platform ends. A passenger entering the station for a train to Halifax or Keighley may find, if it is a through Halifax – Keighley train that he has to walk the full length of a platform and half the length of another in order to reach it. 
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