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
265px The view from platform 2, with a train leaving for Huddersfield
Location
Place	Shepley
Local authority	Kirklees
Coordinates
Grid reference	SE196103
Operations
Station code	SPY
Managed by	Northern Rail
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	42,793
2006/07	46,134
2007/08	52,770
2008/09	65,630
2009/10	64,926
2010/11	65,104
2011/12	66,938
2012/13	69,020
2013/14	68,874
2014/15	73,360
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	West Yorkshire (Metro)
Zone	5
History
Key dates	Opened 1 July 1850 (1 July 1850)
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 Rail. 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. 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
Denby Dale		Northern Rail Penistone Line		Stocksmoor
Disused railways
Terminus		L&YR Clayton West branch		Skelmanthorpe

Kirklees South Lines

Legend To Heckmondwike To Dewsbury and Wakefield To Calderdale Cooper Bridge Bradley Deighton1982 station Deighton 1871–1930 Kirkheaton Newtown goods Huddersfield Fenay Bridge and Lepton Longwood and Milnsbridge Lockwood Golcar Kirkburton Netherton Berry Brow Slaithwaite Healey House Meltham Honley Marsden Brockholes To Saddleworth Thongsbridge Stocksmoor Holmfirth Shepley Denby Dale Shelley To Penistone Skelmanthorpe Cuckoos Nest Clayton West

External links

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