Frizinghall railway station

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Frizinghall
Location
Place	Frizinghall
Local authority	City of Bradford
Operations
Managed by	Northern Rail
Platforms in use	2
Annual entry/exit 04/05	0.230 million **
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	West Yorkshire (Metro)
Zone	3
History
Key dates	Opened 1875 Closed 1965 Reopened 1987
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Frizinghall railway station is situated in the Frizinghall district of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. The station, which is an unstaffed halt 3 km (2 miles) north of Bradford Forster Square, and all trains serving it are operated by Northern Rail.

1 History
2 Services
3 References
4 External links

[edit] History

Frizinghall station was opened by the Midland Railway on 1 February 1875. It remained in operation until it was closed on 20 March 1965, a casualty of the Beeching Axe. However the line on which it stood remained open, and 22 years later the West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive reopened the station.

The original station had two platforms opposite each other on the north side of Frizinghall Road, but the current station, opened on 7 September 1987, has the two platforms separated: the northbound platform is approximately where it was before, and the southbound is to the south of Frizinghall Road.

Bradford Grammar School was relocated to Frizinghall in the late 1940s. From then until closure, and again after reopening, pupils have constituted one of the main sources of traffic at the station. Indeed, it was an English teacher at Bradford Grammar School, Robin Sissons, that actively fought for Frizinghall station to reopen.

Frizinghall signal box is preserved in working order at Damems Junction, on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway.

Historically, services were as follows:

Dates	Company or line	Preceding station	Following station
1875-1923	Midland	Manningham	Shipley
1923-1948	LMS	Manningham	Shipley
1948-1965	British Railways	Manningham	Shipley
1987-present	West Yorkshire Metro	Forster Square	Shipley

[edit] Services

Frizinghall is served by trains from Bradford Forster Square towards Leeds (on the Leeds-Bradford Line), Skipton (on the Airedale Line) and Ilkley (on the Wharfedale Line). During Monday to Saturday daytimes, trains operate every 30 minutes on each route. During the evenings, there are trains every hour to each of Skipton and Ilkley; on Sundays these run every two hours. At these times there are no trains to Leeds; passengers have to change at Shipley.

[edit] References

Whitaker, Alan & Myland, Brian, 1993 Railway Memories No 4: Bradford. Bellcode Books ISBN 1-871233-03-8
Bairstow, Martin, 2004 Railways Through Airedale & Wharfedale ISBN 1-871944-28-7

[edit] External links

Train times and station information for Frizinghall railway station from National Rail
Street map and aerial photo of Frizinghall railway station from Multimap.com

Preceding station		Following station
Shipley	Northern Rail Leeds-Bradford Line	Bradford Forster Square
Bradford Forster Square	Northern Rail Airedale Line	Shipley
Bradford Forster Square	Northern Rail Wharfedale Line	Shipley