Bingley railway station

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Bingley
 The station building. July 2006
Location
Place Bingley
Local authority City of Bradford
Operations
Managed by Northern Rail
Platforms in use 2
Annual entry/exit 02/03 0.479 million *
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE West Yorkshire (Metro)
Zone 3
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Bingley railway station serves the town of Bingley in West Yorkshire, England, and is 22km (13.5 miles) away from Leeds and 5½ miles (9 km) away from Bradford Forster Square on the Airedale Line operated by Northern Rail.

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[edit] History

The Leeds and Bradford Railway opened the Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway from Shipley to Keighley on 16 March 1847.[1] Bingley station opened on the first day, and remained the only intermediate station until Saltaire was built in 1856.

The original station was of wood, but the Midland Railway (who had absorbed the L&BR in 1851) opened the current station on 24 July 1892.[2] This was designed by Charles Trubshaw[3], and is a little to the east of the original site.

[edit] Services

During Monday to Saturday daytime, there is a half-hourly service from Bingley to both Leeds and Bradford Forster Square in one direction and four trains an hour going towards Keighley and Skipton. Evenings there is a half hourly service to Leeds and an hourly service to Bradford Forster Square and three trains per hour to Skipton.

On Sundays there is an hourly service to Leeds and a two-hourly service to Bradford Forster Square with one or two trains per hour in the other direction to Skipton.

Trains from Leeds to Carlisle and Morecambe also stop in Bingley.

 Platform 1. July 2006
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Platform 1. July 2006
 Platform 2. July 2006
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Platform 2. July 2006

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Preceding station National Rail Following station
Saltaire   Northern Rail
Airedale Line
  Crossflatts

[edit] References

  1. ^ Bairstow, Martin (2004). Railways through Airedale & Wharfedale. The Amadeus Press. ISBN 1-871933-28-7.
  2. ^ Binns (2005). Midland Lines Railway Stations, Past and Present. Trackside Publications. ISBN 1-900095-26-2.
  3. ^ Sheeran, George (1994). Railway Architecture of West Yorkshire 1812-1920. Ryburn. ISBN 1-85331-100-6.
Railway stations in West Yorkshire

Baildon - Batley - Ben Rhydding - Berry Brow - Bingley - Bradford Forster Square - Bradford Interchange - Bramley - Brockholes - Brighouse - Burley Park - Burley-in-Wharfedale - Castleford - Cottingley - Crossflatts - Cross Gates - Darton - Deighton - Denby Dale - Dewsbury - East Garforth - Featherstone - Fitzwilliam - Frizinghall - Garforth - Glasshoughton - Guiseley - Halifax - Headingley - Hebden Bridge - Honley - Horsforth - Huddersfield - Ilkley - Keighley - Knottingley - Leeds - Lockwood - Marsden - Menston - Micklefield - Mirfield - Moorthorpe - Morley - Mytholmroyd - New Pudsey - Normanton - Outwood - Pontefract Baghill - Pontefract Monkhill - Pontefract Tanshelf - Ravensthorpe - Saltaire - Sandal and Agbrigg - Shepley - Shipley - Slaithwaite - South Elmsall - Sowerby Bridge - Steeton and Silsden - Stocksmoor - Streethouse - Todmorden - Wakefield Kirkgate - Wakefield Westgate - Walsden - Woodlesford

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