1980 St. Pauls riot black community. Relations between police and the local community remained tense and reached a low point in 1986 when 600 police raided the Black and White Café again in an action named "Operation Delivery". It took intervention by local Member of Parliament William Waldegrave to persuade the police to scale down their policy of containment. The Black and White Café had long had a reputation as a drug den and was allegedly raided more times by the police than any other premises in the country. In 2003 Bristol City Council used its powers of compulsory purchase and in 2005 the
St Pauls railway station (Halifax) an extra journey time of 30 minutes to get there. The branch and its two stations closed to passengers on 1 January 1917 as a wartime economy measure. However, they were reinstated after the war, but withdrawn again on 1 January 1927 due to the introduction of electric trams to Halifax. The branch closed to goods on 27 June 1960 along with the line from to . St Pauls railway station (Halifax) St Pauls railway station, also known as Halifax St Pauls, served the St. Paul's area of Halifax, West Yorkshire, England on the Halifax High Level Railway. It was