Previously known as Bradford Market St station
Bradford was for me always a Midland or LMS
town. The first station was Market St which was
the first connection between Leeds and Bradford.
The Bradford and Leeds Railways was soon taken
over by the Midland railway which had access to
Leeds and so the relationship was born. Built in
the area of the town known as Little Bermondsey,
the original Market St Station was a little to the
west and north, roughly where the Midland Hotel
main acom block stands in this picture. Little
Bermondsey and its associated Margerison
Square was a slum and under the clearances
of the mid 19th century following the 1849
50 and 51 Cholera epidemics, was demolished,
making way for the new Midland station
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