Hebden Bridge railway station

Hebden Bridge
A view of platform 2 in 2015
Location
Place	Hebden Bridge
Local authority	Calderdale
Coordinates
Grid reference	SD994268
Operations
Station code	HBD
Managed by	Northern Rail
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	E
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	0.368 million
2005/06	0.386 million
2006/07	0.401 million
2007/08	0.435 million
2008/09	0.597 million
2009/10	0.627 million
2010/11	0.714 million
2011/12	0.762 million
2012/13	0.736 million
2013/14	0.739 million
2014/15	0.764 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	Opened
1893	Current station buildings opened
1997	Refurbished
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Hebden Bridge from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Hebden Bridge railway station serves the town of Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire, England. The station is on the Caldervale Line, currently operated by Northern Rail from York and Leeds towards Manchester Victoria and Blackpool North. The station is 8.5 miles (14 km) west of Halifax and 26 miles (42 km) west of Leeds.

History

British Rail Class 110 at the station in 1983.

The Manchester and Leeds Railway, authorised in 1836 for a line from Manchester to Normanton, was opened in stages; the second section, between Normanton and Hebden Bridge, opened on 5 October 1840. Trains arrived at Hebden Bridge from Normanton and passengers would then continue to Littleborough by road. The section between Hebden Bridge and Summit Tunnel opened on 31 December 1840, allowing trains to reach Todmorden; after Summit Tunnel opened on 1 March 1841, trains continued to Littleborough and Manchester. An 1841 timetable shows five Manchester to Leeds trains per day calling at Hebden Bridge (two on Sundays), all but one of which called at all stations; a similar service ran in the opposite direction. Trains began operating to Halifax and Bradford in 1852, and could run through to Leeds via this route from 1854.

The current buildings date from 1893, construction having started in 1891. By this point there was a goods yard alongside the station. This closed in 1966 and the site is now the station car park. In 1997 the station was renovated, and signage in the original Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway style was installed.

Facilities

The station has a staffed ticket office, waiting rooms, toilets and a cafe. Platform 2, towards Leeds, is accessible to those with disabilities but platform 1 is not; the lifts serving the subway were closed in the 1980s and funding for their re-instatement has not been made available via the Department for Transport's Access for All scheme. Information screens were installed in 2012 as part of a programme to provide screens at 18 stations on the Caldervale line and elsewhere in West Yorkshire. Previously, passengers had to rely on automated public-address system announcements.

Services

On Monday to Saturday during daytime there are four trains per hour to Leeds - one via Brighouse and Dewsbury (calling at all stations except Cottingley), the other three via Bradford Interchange (one serving all stations to Bradford and two calling at Halifax only). Of the latter, one continues to York and the other to Selby. In the evening, the service drops to hourly, with one or two extras, all via Bradford.

Westbound there are three trains per hour to Manchester Victoria (hourly evenings and Sundays), and an hourly service to Blackpool North via Burnley, Blackburn and Preston (two-hourly evenings, hourly on Sundays). One of the Manchester trains is a limited-stop service, calling at Todmorden and Rochdale only.

From November 2013 to late March 2014 the line to Burnley was closed for repair work on Holme Tunnel. A replacement bus service ran, and trains from York terminated at Hebden Bridge.

Gallery

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  The station building from the roadside

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  The scenery at the end of platform 1

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  Eastbound empties train between Hebden Bridge and Mythomroyd in 1959

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  Hebden Bridge signal box, a Grade II listed building, situated opposite the eastern end of platform 2

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Todmorden		Northern Rail Caldervale Line		Mytholmroyd
Burnley Manchester Road				Halifax
	Disused railways
Eastwood		L&YR Caldervale Line		Mytholmroyd

External links

• Train times and station information for Hebden Bridge railway station from National Rail
• Friends of Hebden Bridge Station - voluntary group which tidies the station environs, plants flowers, etc.

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 )