Hellifield railway station

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Hellifield
Location
Place	Hellifield
Local authority	Craven
Operations
Station code	HLD
Managed by	Northern Rail
Platforms in use	2
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Annual Rail Passenger Usage
2004/05 *	0.017 million
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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Hellifield from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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Hellifield railway station serves the village of Hellifield in North Yorkshire, England.

The station is 58 km (36¼ miles) north west of Leeds on the Airedale Line towards Carlisle and Morecambe. The Ribble Valley Line from Blackburn also meets the Airedale Line at Hellifield which is managed by Northern Rail, who provide all passenger train services.

Contents 1 History 2 Service 3 Image Gallery 4 External links

[edit] History

Hellifield station was opened by the "Little" North Western Railway. It later became was a busy junction, with trains going to:

• Clitheroe
• Skipton
• Leeds
• Blackburn
• Settle
• Carlisle
• Manchester

[edit] Service

There is a service each day from Hellifield towards Leeds southbound and Carlisle and Morecambe northbound. The interval between services southbound ranges from 30 minutes to 2 hours. Northbound the service is usually every two hours to Carlisle and Morecambe respectively.

On Sundays there is an infrequent service in both directions.

Also on Sundays in the summer, one or two trains operate from Preston along to the Ribble Valley Line via Clitheroe to Hellifield and onwards towards Carlisle. There are plans for more services from Clitheroe.

[edit] Image Gallery

Platform 1 - showing the part of the station

The disused end of Hellifield station

Platform 1 - showing the disused end of the station

[edit] External links

• The Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hellifield railway station.

• Train times and station information for Hellifield railway station from National Rail

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Gargrave		Northern Rail Airedale Line		Long Preston
Clitheroe (Sunday Service only)		Northern Rail Ribble Valley Line		Long Preston
Disused Railways
Newsholme		L&YR Ribble Valley Line		Terminus