Dewsbury railway station

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Dewsbury
Dewsbury railway station, in June 2006
Location
Place Dewsbury
Local authority Kirklees
Operations
Station code DEW
Managed by TransPennine Express
Platforms in use 2
Live departures and station information from National Rail
Annual Rail Passenger Usage
2004/05 * 0.743 million
2005/06 * 0.805 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE West Yorkshire (Metro)
Zone 3
History
Key dates Opened 1848
National Rail - UK railway stations

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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Dewsbury from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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Dewsbury railway station serves the town of Dewsbury in West Yorkshire, England. The station is 9¼ miles (14 km) south west of Leeds on the Huddersfield Line.

The station is managed by TransPennine Express trains and it is the stop between Leeds and Huddersfield.

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[edit] History

The station is on the Huddersfield Line operated by Northern Rail. It is 9 miles (14km) away from Leeds. The station was opened in 1848 by the London and North Western Railway and was originally known as Dewsbury Wellington Road. Dewsbury had two other railway stations, both now closed: these were Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway's Market Place, and the Great Northern Railway's Central. Market Place was the first, opened by the Manchester and Leeds Railway in 1840. No trace of Market Place station remains, but the facade of Dewsbury Central Station can still be seen, as it was incorporated into a bridge supporting the Dewsbury Ring Road in 1985.

[edit] Services

From Dewsbury there is a half-hourly TransPennine Express service to Leeds and beyond, and to Huddersfield, Manchester Piccadilly and Manchester Airport Monday to Saturday daytimes and an hourly service evenings and Sundays. Trains go onwards from Leeds towards York, Middlesbrough and Newcastle.

On the Huddersfield Line, there is a Monday to Saturdays, half-hourly stopping, (two-hourly Sunday), local service to Leeds eastbound. There is also an hourly service westbound to both Huddersfield and Hebden Bridge Monday to Saturday daytimes with an hourly evening and two hourly Sunday service to Huddersfield.

[edit] Future plans from December 2008

Northern Rail have proposed changes to the Caldervale line services from December 2008. Three trains per hour will run between Leeds and Manchester Victoria - one will be the current stopping service, one will go via Dewsbury and Brighouse, and include stops at Moston, Mills Hill and Castleton, and one will be a limited stop service - between Bradford and Manchester the service will only call at Halifax, Hebden Bridge, Todmorden and Rochdale. [1]

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Railways in North Kirklees
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Birstall Town (Dismantled)
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Gomersal(Dismantled)
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Howden Clough(Dismantled)
Lower Birstall(Dismantled)
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Upper Batley(Dismantled)
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Batley
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Staincliffe and Batley Carr (Closed)
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Dewsbury Central(Dismantled)
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Dewsbury Market Place(Dismantled)
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Huddersfield   TransPennine Express
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