Wartime bomb discovered near railway line
Police closed the road close to the scene
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Train services were cancelled after a wartime bomb was discovered close to a West Yorkshire railway line.
Emergency services were called to Apperley Bridge in Bradford shortly before 09:30 GMT on Tuesday.
Services between Leeds and Shipley were disrupted for several hours a result.
Bomb disposal officers later said the device found posed "no threat".
Bomb disposal experts later said the object was a "solid metal shell"
The disruption also had a knock-on effect on services running north-west of Leeds and Bradford, towards Skipton, Carlisle and Morecambe.
Train operator Northern later tweeted that disruption caused by the discovery had ended, external.
In a statement, British Transport Police (BTP) said its officers had been "called to Apperley Bridge Railway Station just before 09:30 GMT to reports of an unexploded ordnance found near the station during excavation work".
A cordon was put in place as a precaution.
Bomb disposal officers had attended the location and confirmed the object which had been found was "a solid metal shell and poses no threat to the public", a BTP spokesperson said.
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