Harrogate railway station

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Harrogate

Location

Place

Harrogate

Local authority

Harrogate

Operations

Station code

HGT

Managed by

Northern Rail

Platforms in use

Live departures and station information from National Rail

Annual Rail Passenger Usage

2004/05 *

1.055 million

2005/06 *

1.097 million

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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Harrogate from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.

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Harrogate railway station serves the town of Harrogate in North Yorkshire, England. It is located on the Harrogate Line 29 km (18¼ miles) north of Leeds. Northern Rail operate the station and provide all passenger train services except a daily NXEC service to London Kings Cross.

1 Facilities
2 Services
3 Harrogate (Brunswick) station
4 Former Routes
5 External links
6 References

[edit] Facilities

There is a staffed ticket office open seven days a week. There is also a newsagent, cafe, key cutters, ATMs, photo booths and a waiting room. All of the facilities are located on the main concourse on Platform 1.

[edit] Services

The Monday to Saturday daytime service is generally a half-hourly from Harrogate to Leeds (southbound) and to Knaresborough (eastbound) on the Harrogate Line with an hourly service onwards to York.

Evenings and Sundays there is generally an hourly service from Leeds through Harrogate towards Knaresborough and York.

Monday to Saturdays, one NXEC service starts in Harrogate and goes towards Horsforth and Leeds then onto London King's Cross. A petition to increase this service^[1] is hosted on the Prime Minister's website.

There are proposals to create another station between Harrogate and Starbeck at Bilton.

[edit] Harrogate (Brunswick) station

Harrogate's first railway station, Brunswick, was the end of the branch line of the York and North Midland Railway and the first train arrived at Brunswick Station on 20 July 1848. This station was situated on the site where Trinity Church now stands, close to the Prince of Wales roundabout and some distance from either High or Low Harrogate.^[2] When the new line of the North Eastern Railway entered Harrogate via a cutting through The Stray, Brunswick was closed and the first train into the town centre station was on 1 August 1862. The station was largely demolished in 1964/65 and replaced with a more utilitarian one.