Batley railway station
Batley | |
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| General information | |
| Location | Kirklees |
| Coordinates | 53°42′36″N 1°37′23″W / 53.709910°N 1.623020°W |
| Managed by | Northern |
| Platforms | 2 |
| Other information | |
| Station code | BTL |
| Fare zone | 2 |
| History | |
| Opened | 1848 |
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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.[1]
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.[2]
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.[3] 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).[4][5] 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.
Notes
- ^ Batley station facilities National Rail Enquiries; Retrieved 16 January 2017
- ^ Table 39 National Rail timetable, May 2018
- ^ Railway Ramblers - Kirklees Accessed 11 April 2008
- ^ "Tracking down history of local railways" Batley & Birstall News article 29 November 2007; Retrieved 8 January 2016
- ^ Batley to Beeston 1890-1951Lost Railways West Yorkshire; Retrieved 8 January 2016
Gallery
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Platform 2
External links
- Train times and station information for Batley railway station from National Rail
| Preceding station |  National Rail
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Following station | ||
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| Dewsbury | TransPennine Express North TransPennine (Manchester - Leeds) |
Morley | ||
| TransPennine Express North TransPennine (Manchester - Hull) |
Leeds |
Railways in North Kirklees |
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Past, present and future
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