Mytholmroyd railway station

Mytholmroyd
265px Platform 1 at Mytholmroyd
Location
Place	Mytholmroyd
Local authority	Calderdale
Coordinates
Grid reference	SE012258
Operations
Station code	MYT
Managed by	Northern Rail
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	0.101 million
2005/06	0.107 million
2006/07	0.106 million
2007/08	0.113 million
2008/09	0.143 million
2009/10	0.133 million
2010/11	0.148 million
2011/12	0.159 million
2012/13	0.158 million
2013/14	0.157 million
2014/15	0.172 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	West Yorkshire (Metro)
Zone	5
History
Original company	Manchester and Leeds Railway
Pre-grouping	Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
5 October 1840	Line opened
May 1847	Station opened
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Mytholmroyd from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
UK Railways portal

Mytholmroyd railway station serves the communities of Mytholmroyd, Luddendenfoot, Midgley, Cragg Vale, and surrounding areas. It has disabled access via ramps instead of steps on both platforms, although the station is the only one to be built on a viaduct. It lies on the Caldervale Line operated by Northern Rail and is situated 7.5 miles (12 km) west of Halifax and 25 miles (40 km) west of Leeds.

History

The Manchester and Leeds Railway (M&LR) was opened in stages. The section between Normanton and Hebden Bridge was opened on 5 October 1840 and completed in 1841, without a station between Luddendenfoot and Hebden Bridge. In October 29-4, the first arch of the viaduct on the access ramp was cleaned, the path was extended and new fencing was installed.

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The old station building

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The station was opened by the M&LR in May 1847; within a few weeks of this, the company became the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway.

Facilities

The entrance to the station is by way of two long paths from each side of the Mytholmroyd Viaduct. The original station building (as seen above) included a ticket office, as the main entrance to both platforms. The station building was later closed and tickets had to be purchased on the train but later sheltered ticket machines were installed on platform 2, payable by card. Northern Rail's online 'click and collect' system Application, allows the user to purchase tickets, which are then collected on Platform 2. Two Live information screens have been added showing the trains service, type and stops / calls. In 2013, a bicycle area was added at the top of one of the ramps, covered by CCTV.

There is an active station user group - Mytholmroyd Station Partnership, which has enhanced the station area with gardens, flower tubs and school art - including the Northern Mosaic by students from Calder High School. A car park, at the top of platform 2 access road, which engineers use to get machinery onto the tracks in the area, can hold around 20 cars.

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External links

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

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Hebden Bridge		Northern Rail Caldervale Line		Sowerby Bridge
	Historical railways
Hebden Bridge		L&YR Caldervale Line		Luddendenfoot

Calderdale Lines (Past, present and future)

Legend ( To Bradford ) ( To Bradford ) Queensbury Holmfield Bailiff Bridge Lightcliffe / Clifton Road Wheatley ( To Kirklees ) Ovenden Brighouse North Bridge Hipperholme Pellon Elland Power Station St Pauls Elland Halifax South Parade Greetland Shaw Syke Rochdale Road Halt Copley West Vale Stainland and Holywell Green Sowerby Bridge Watson's Crossing Halt Luddendenfoot Triangle Ripponden and Barkisland ( To Burnley ) Rishworth Portsmouth Mytholmroyd Cornholme Hebden Bridge Stansfield Hall Eastwood Todmorden Walsden ( To Rochdale )