Horsforth railway station
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The view from platform 2
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Location | |
Place | Horsforth |
Local authority | City of Leeds |
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Grid reference | SE244391 |
Operations | |
Station code | HRS |
Managed by | Northern Rail |
Number of platforms | 2 |
DfT category | F1 |
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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Annual rail passenger usage* | |
2004/05 | 0.615 million |
2005/06 | 0.688 million |
2006/07 | 0.730 million |
2007/08 | 0.726 million |
2008/09 | 0.856 million |
2009/10 | 0.849 million |
2010/11 | 0.951 million |
2011/12 | 0.961 million |
2012/13 | 0.960 million |
2013/14 | 1.007 million |
2014/15 | 1.053 million |
Passenger Transport Executive | |
PTE | West Yorkshire (Metro) |
Zone | 2 |
History | |
Key dates | Opened 1849 |
National Rail – UK railway stations | |
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Horsforth from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
UK Railways portal |
Horsforth railway station is a railway station in West Yorkshire, England. It is on the Harrogate Line 5.75 miles (9 km) north west of Leeds station and the final stop in the Metro regulated area towards Harrogate. The station is located on the Cookridge side of the Moseley beck but has a Horsforth postcode (LS18).
The station (accessed from Station Road, Horsforth) serves Horsforth, Cookridge and Tinshill and was opened in 1849. In 1969 it was unstaffed and all the buildings demolished as part of the general retrenchment of railways in West Yorkshire at that time. The nearby North Eastern Railway signal box survived and is still in use today.
Growing traffic congestion in Leeds promoted an increased traffic from Horsforth in the 1990s, and in 2002/3 Horsforth station was extensively redeveloped to better cater for the greater number of passengers. New waiting rooms were built on both platforms, along with a ticket office on the Leeds (Up) platform which opened on 16 July 2003. The car park was extended, using land formerly occupied by the two sidings, which still remain, in a truncated form. The station is staffed from 06:10–19:00 Mon–Sat and 09:30–16:30 Sun. The station is roughly 45 minutes by foot from Leeds Bradford International Airport and is roughly 5 minutes by road.
There had been plans for a neighbouring station, Horsforth Woodside, to be built on the same line just south of the station. However a West Yorkshire Transport Feasibility Study published in 2015 stated that the authority would discontinue with plans for the new station.[1] A turn-back facility for Horsforth station was constructed in 2012. This allows timetabling improvements to the line in future.[2][3][4]
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Services
Monday to Saturday daytimes is generally a half-hourly service southbound to Leeds and a half-hourly service northbound to Knaresborough with one train per hour onwards to York. In peak hours, there are extra services to and from Leeds.
Evenings there's an hourly service in each direction and on Sundays there's an hourly service to Harrogate and York with a half hourly service to Leeds through the day reverting to hourly by the evening.
Every morning there is one direct Virgin Trains East Coast service to London King's Cross in the southbound direction only. The evening return service passes through the station non-stop.
See also
References
External links
- Train times and station information for Horsforth railway station from National Rail
Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
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Headingley | Northern Rail Harrogate Line |
Weeton | ||
Leeds | Virgin Trains East Coast (Southbound only) (Pick-up only) |
Harrogate |
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- Railway stations opened in 1849
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- Railway stations served by Virgin Trains East Coast
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