Leeds-Bradford Lines

Leeds-Bradford Lines
Overview
Locale	West Yorkshire Leeds Bradford Yorkshire and the Humber
Operation
Owner	Network Rail
Technical
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8 ¹⁄₂ in) standard gauge

Legend

opening 2016

The Leeds-Bradford Lines services are those included in the West Yorkshire Metro area system of Lines.

Services involved

The services include those on the following Lines:

Places served

Those services serve the following places from Leeds railway station, to which West Yorkshire MetroCards are available; there are two routes:

to Bradford Interchange was on the Great Northern Railway (GNR) line; some stations are closed:
- Holbeck High Level station (closed 1962 when service was from Leeds Central station)
- Armley Moor (closed 1966)
- Wortley
- Bramley (closed 1966, reopened 1983)
- New Pudsey (opened 1967)
- Stanningley for Farsley (closed 1967)
- Laisterdyke (closed 1966)
- Bradford Interchange station: was Bradford Exchange - joint GNR/Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway owned
to Bradford Forster Square Midland Railway owned; many stations closed, served the following places:
- Holbeck Low Level station (closed 1958)
- Armley Canal Road (closed 1965)
- Kirkstall (closed 1965)
- Kirkstall Forge (closed 1905). A new Kirkstall Forge station is due to open in 2016.
- Newlay (closed 1965)
- Calverley and Rodley (closed 1965)
- Apperley Bridge and Rawdon (closed 1965). A new Apperley Bridge station opened in December 2015.
- Shipley
- Frizinghall (closed 1965, reopened 1987)
- Manningham (closed 1965)
- Bradford Forster Square station

External links

Timetable and map

Railway lines in Yorkshire and the Humber

Primary

To London	East Coast Main Line Midland Main Line

To Exeter	Cross Country Route

Others

Inter-regional	Hallam Line Hope Valley Line Leeds to Morecambe Line Doncaster to Lincoln Line Sheffield to Lincoln Line Settle-Carlisle Line

Intra-regional	Airedale Line Askern Branch Line Barton Line Calder Valley Line Dearne Valley Line Esk Valley Line Harrogate Line Huddersfield Line Leeds-Bradford Lines Leeds-Northallerton Railway Northallerton–Eaglescliffe Line Penistone Line Pontefract Line Selby Diversion Selby Line South Humberside Main Line Swinton to Doncaster Wakefield Line Wharfedale Line Hull to Scarborough York to Scarborough

Defunct

Heritage

Light Railways

Railway stations in West Yorkshire

Lists	List of busiest railway stations in West Yorkshire

MetroTrain lines	■ Airedale ■ Calder Valley ■ Dearne Valley ■ Hallam ■ Harrogate ■ Huddersfield ■ Leeds-Bradford ■ Penistone ■ Pontefract ■ Wakefield ■ Wharfedale

City of Bradford	Apperley Bridge Baildon Ben Rhydding Bingley Bradford Forster Square Bradford Interchange Burley-in-Wharfedale Crossflatts Frizinghall Ilkley Keighley Menston Saltaire Shipley Steeton and Silsden

Calderdale	Brighouse Halifax Hebden Bridge Mytholmroyd Sowerby Bridge Todmorden Walsden

Kirklees	Batley Berry Brow Brockholes Deighton Denby Dale Dewsbury Honley Huddersfield Lockwood Marsden Mirfield Ravensthorpe Shepley Slaithwaite Stocksmoor

City of Leeds	Bramley Burley Park Cottingley Cross Gates East Garforth Garforth Guiseley Headingley Horsforth Leeds Micklefield Morley New Pudsey Woodlesford

City of Wakefield	Castleford Featherstone Fitzwilliam Glasshoughton Knottingley Moorthorpe Normanton Outwood Pontefract Baghill Pontefract Monkhill Pontefract Tanshelf Sandal and Agbrigg South Elmsall Streethouse Wakefield Kirkgate Wakefield Westgate

Outside West Yorkshire, but within the West Yorkshire Metro area	Cononley Darton Skipton

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