Bingley railway station

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Bingley
Location
Place	Bingley
Local authority	City of Bradford
Operations
Managed by	Northern Rail
Platforms in use	2
Annual Passenger Usage
2004/05 **	0.646 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	West Yorkshire (Metro)
Zone	3
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Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Bingley (source)   * 2002/03 Disclaimer  ** 2004/05 Disclaimer
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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.

Contents 1 History 2 Services 3 External links 4 References

[edit] History

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

The original station, near the Three Rise Lock, was of wood, but the Midland Railway (who had absorbed the L&BR in 1851) opened the current station on 24 July 1892

[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.

[edit] External links

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

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

[edit] References

Railways Through Airedale & Wharfedale. Martin Bairstow (2004) ISBN 1-871944-28-7

Railway stations in West Yorkshire
MetroTrain lines: ▐ Airedale • ▐ Caldervale • ║ Dearne Valley • ▐ Hallam Line • ▐ Harrogate • ▐ Hudderfield • ▐ Leeds-Bradford • ▐ Penistone • ▐ Pontefract • ▐ Wakefield • ▐ Wharfedale • ▐ York & Selby
Major stations:   Bradford Forster Square - Bradford Interchange - Halifax - Huddersfield - Leeds - Shipley - Wakefield Westgate
Other stations:  Baildon - Batley - Ben Rhydding - Berry Brow - Bingley - 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 - Headingley - Hebden Bridge - Honley - Horsforth - Ilkley - Keighley - Knottingley - Lockwood - Marsden - Menston - Micklefield - Mirfield - Moorthorpe - Morley - Mytholmroyd - New Pudsey - Normanton - Outwood - Pontefract Baghill - Pontefract Monkhill - Pontefract Tanshelf - Ravensthorpe - Saltaire - Sandal and Agbrigg - Shepley - Slaithwaite - South Elmsall - Sowerby Bridge - Steeton and Silsden - Stocksmoor - Streethouse - Todmorden - Wakefield Kirkgate - Walsden - Woodlesford
* Darton station is in South Yorkshire, however West Yorkshire Metro passes are valid to/from this station.
Transport in West Yorkshire - Metro