Batley railway station

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General information
Location	Kirklees
Coordinates	53.709910°N 1.623020°W / 53.709910; -1.623020
Managed by	Northern
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	BTL
Fare zone	2
History
Opened	1848

The station in 1961

Batley railway station serves the town of Batley in West Yorkshire, England. Situated 8 miles (13 km) south west of Leeds on the main line to Huddersfield and Manchester, the station was opened by the London and North Western Railway in 1848.

The station is now managed by Northern, although all services are currently provided by TransPennine Express.

Facilities

Batley railway station is unstaffed, though the main buildings on the eastbound platform (1) still stand and are used as a waiting area and entrance; a self-service ticket machine is also located there. There is a shelter on Platform 2 and both have digital display screens and timetable posters for train running information provision. Only Platform 1 has step-free access, as the subway to Platform 2 has stairways.

Services

Batley is served by two trains per hour to Leeds, one of which continues to Hull, and two trains per hour to Huddersfield and Manchester Piccadilly.

The trains terminating at Leeds also stop at Morley, whilst the trains continuing to Hull are semi-fast services.

On Sundays, there is an hourly service to Leeds, Huddersfield and Manchester Piccadilly.

History

The station was at one time rather larger than it is today, as it was also served by the Great Northern Railway branch line from Bradford to Wakefield via Dewsbury Central from December 1864 to 7 September 1964, when it fell victim to the Beeching Axe. It was also the junction for branch lines to Birstall (opened in 1852, closed to passengers as a wartime economy measure in 1917 and to all traffic in 1963) and to Tingley and Beeston (opened in 1890, closed in 1951). The station was significantly enlarged (with the addition of three extra platforms) on the opening of the latter route in August 1890, but reverted to the present twin-platform configuration after the closure & abandonment of the Bradford - Wakefield line in 1964/5.

Few traces of any of these routes remain today, but the abutments of the former bridge that took the Bradford line across the line from Leeds near Batley signal box (east of the station) can still be seen.

Gallery

• 
  Platform 2 in 2006
• 
  Platform 2 in 2018

External links

• Train times and station information for Batley railway station from National Rail

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Dewsbury		TransPennine Express North TransPennine (Manchester - Leeds)		Morley
		TransPennine Express North TransPennine (Manchester - Hull)		Leeds

Railways in North Kirklees
Past, present and future
Great Northern Railway to Bradford Leeds New Line to Leeds Howden Clough Upper Batley to Leeds Birstall Town Birstall Carlinghow to Leeds Gomersal Chickenley Heath to Wakefield Batley Lancashire & Yorkshire Rly to Bradford Cleckheaton Central Cleckheaton Spen Liversedge Liversedge Spen Batley Carr Staincliffe and Batley Carr Heckmondwike Central Heckmondwike Spen Dewsbury Wellington Road Dewsbury Central Dewsbury Market Place Northorpe North Road Earlsheaton to Wakefield Ravensthorpe Lower Dewsbury Goods (NMR) Huddersfield Line to Wakefield Ravensthorpe original proposed Thornhill Northorpe Higher North Midland Railway to Royston and Notton Mirfield Battyeford Leeds New Line to Huddersfield Huddersfield Line to Huddersfield