Wartime bomb discovered near railway line

Police closed the road close to the scene

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.

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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