Batley railway station

Batley
The entrance
Location
Place	Batley
Local authority	Kirklees
Coordinates	53°42′36″N 1°37′23″W / 53.709910°N 1.623020°WCoordinates: 53°42′36″N 1°37′23″W / 53.709910°N 1.623020°W
Grid reference	SE249237
Operations
Station code	BTL
Managed by	Northern
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	F1
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	0.122 million
2005/06	0.138 million
2006/07	0.145 million
2007/08	0.150 million
2008/09	0.237 million
2009/10	0.242 million
2010/11	0.273 million
2011/12	0.278 million
2012/13	0.264 million
2013/14	0.296 million
2014/15	0.315 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	West Yorkshire (Metro)
Zone	2
History
Key dates	Opened 1848
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Batley from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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The station in 1961

Batley railway station serves the town of Batley in West Yorkshire, England. Situated on the on the London and North Western Railway's main line from Leeds to Huddersfield and Manchester, the station opened in 1848.

The station is 8 miles (13 km) to the south west of Leeds. Trains from Batley go towards either Leeds northbound or Huddersfield/Hebden Bridge southbound on the Huddersfield Line operated by Northern.

Services

Mondays to Saturdays in the daytime, there is typically a half-hourly service from Batley to Leeds and to Dewsbury. The latter continues to either Huddersfield or Manchester Victoria via Brighouse and Todmorden. Additional services run during peak times.^[1]

Evenings, there is an hourly service northbound to Leeds and southbound to Huddersfield. Sundays, there is a two-hourly service in each direction.

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.^[2] 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).^[3][4] 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

1. GB eNRT December 2015 Edition, Table 39
2. Railway Ramblers - Kirklees Accessed 11 April 2008
3. "Tracking down history of local railways" Batley & Birstall News article 29 November 2007; Retrieved 8 January 2016
4. 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		Following station
Dewsbury		Northern Rail Huddersfield Line		Morley

Railways in North Kirklees (Past, present and future)

Legend to Bradford Birstall Town to Leeds Lower Birstall Howden Clough Upper Batley to Leeds Carlinghow Gomersal to Bradford to Leeds Cleckheaton Spen Cleckheaton Central Batley Liversedge Spen Liversedge Central Chickenley Heath Heckmondwike Spen to Wakefield Batley Carr Staincliffe and Batley Carr Heckmondwike Central Dewsbury Central Dewsbury Wellington Road Earlsheaton Ravensthorpe Lower to Wakefield Northorpe Higher to Wakefield Northorpe North Road Dewsbury Market Place Ravensthorpe Dewsbury Midland Goods Battyeford Thornhill Mirfield to Royston and Notton to Huddersfield to Huddersfield