Frizinghall railway station

Frizinghall
Platform 2
Location
Place	Frizinghall
Local authority	City of Bradford
Coordinates	53°49′12″N 1°46′07″W / 53.8200°N 1.7686°WCoordinates: 53°49′12″N 1°46′07″W / 53.8200°N 1.7686°W
Grid reference	SE153359
Operations
Station code	FZH
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*
2010/11	0.385 million
2011/12	0.390 million
2012/13	0.375 million
2013/14	0.378 million
2014/15	0.414 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	West Yorkshire (Metro)
Zone	3
History
Original company	Midland Railway
Pre-grouping	Midland Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
1 February 1875	Station opened
22 March 1965	Closed
7 September 1987	Reopened
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Frizinghall from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Frizinghall railway station is situated in the Frizinghall district of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. The station, an unstaffed halt 2 miles (3 km) north of Bradford Forster Square is on the Airedale Line, and all trains serving it are operated by Northern.

History

Frizinghall station was opened by the Midland Railway on 1 February 1875. It remained in operation until it was closed on 20 March 1965, a casualty of the Beeching Axe. However, the line on which it stood remained open, and 22 years later, the West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive and British Rail reopened the station.

The original station had two platforms opposite each other on the north side of Frizinghall Road, but the current station, opened on 7 September 1987, has its two platforms separated: the northbound platform is approximately where it was before, and the southbound is to the south of Frizinghall Road.

Bradford Grammar School was relocated to Frizinghall in the late 1940s. From then until closure, and again after reopening, pupils have constituted one of the main sources of traffic at the station. Indeed, it was an English teacher at Bradford Grammar School, Dr Robin Sisson, who actively fought for Frizinghall station to reopen. Sisson was killed in a car accident in Sheffield on 24 June 2008.^[1]

Frizinghall signal box is preserved in working order at Damems Junction, on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway.

Services

Frizinghall is served by trains from Bradford Forster Square towards Leeds (on the Leeds-Bradford Line), Skipton (on the Airedale Line) and Ilkley (on the Wharfedale Line). Monday to Saturday daytimes, trains operate every 30 minutes each way on each route. During the evenings, there are trains every hour to/from each of Skipton and Ilkley plus an hourly shuttle between Forster Square & Shipley. At these times there are no trains to Leeds, though connections are available at Shipley into/out of the Skipton - Leeds service.

On Sundays, trains run twice each hour to Bradford, every hour to Leeds (until end of service) and every two hours to each of Ikley & Skipton.

References

1. Tributes to rail expert Robin, 50

• Whitaker, Alan & Myland, Brian, 1993 Railway Memories No 4: Bradford. Bellcode Books ISBN 1-871233-03-8
• Bairstow, Martin, 2004 Railways Through Airedale & Wharfedale ISBN 1-871944-28-7

External links

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