Shepley railway station

This article is about the railway station serving Shepley, Kirklees. For the railway station serving Shipley, Bradford, see Shipley railway station.
Shepley National Rail

The view from platform 2, with a train leaving for Huddersfield
Location
Place Shepley
Local authority Kirklees
Coordinates 53°35′20″N 1°42′19″W / 53.588950°N 1.705370°W / 53.588950; -1.705370Coordinates: 53°35′20″N 1°42′19″W / 53.588950°N 1.705370°W / 53.588950; -1.705370
Grid reference SE196103
Operations
Station code SPY
Managed by Northern
Number of platforms 2
DfT category F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05 41,692
2005/06 Increase 42,793
2006/07 Increase 46,134
2007/08 Increase 52,770
2008/09 Increase 65,630
2009/10 Decrease 64,926
2010/11 Increase 65,104
2011/12 Increase 66,938
2012/13 Increase 69,020
2013/14 Decrease 68,874
2014/15 Increase 73,360
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE West Yorkshire (Metro)
Zone 5
History
Key dates Opened 1 July 1850[1] (1 July 1850[2])
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Shepley from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
UK Railways portal

Shepley railway station serves the villages of Shepley and Shelley in West Yorkshire, England. It lies on the Penistone Line operated by Northern. Opened by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in 1850, it is located at the southern end of one of the two passing loops on the otherwise single track section between Barnsley and Huddersfield.

Shepley was also the junction station for the former branch line to Clayton West, via Skelmanthorpe from its opening in 1879 until closure in January 1983 – the branch has since been reopened as the minimum gauge Kirklees Light Railway, whose western terminus at Shelley is located just under a mile to the east.

The station layout is slightly unusual in that the platforms are staggered (on the opposite sides of a road bridge, as can be seen in the accompanying photo) rather than being located opposite each other like other stations on the route. The station once had a goods yard which has now been converted to housing.

In August 2013, plans were released to install electronic real-time information screens (CIS) at the station. It was later revealed by Metro that they will be installed by January/February 2015.[3] As of October 2014, they have not yet been installed.

Services

On Mondays to Saturdays, trains operate hourly from Shepley in each direction, towards Huddersfield and Sheffield. Services are two-hourly each way on Sundays.

Preceding station   National Rail   Following station
Northern Rail
Disused railways
TerminusL&YR
Clayton West branch

References

  1. ↑ Bairstow, Martin (1993). The Huddersfield & Sheffield Junction Railway. Martin Bairstow. ISBN 1-871944-08-2.
  2. ↑ Bairstow, Martin (1993). The Huddersfield & Sheffield Junction Railway. Martin Bairstow. ISBN 1-871944-08-2.
  3. ↑ "Customer Information Enhancements at Rail Stations". September 2014. Retrieved 30 October 2014.

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