New Pudsey railway station
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| New Pudsey | |||
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| Location | |||
| Place | Farsley | ||
| Local authority | Leeds | ||
| Operations | |||
| Station code | NPD | ||
| Managed by | Northern Rail | ||
| Platforms in use | 2 | ||
| Live departures and station information from National Rail | |||
| Annual Rail Passenger Usage | |||
| 2004/05 * | 0.424 million | ||
| 2005/06 * | 0.475 million | ||
| Passenger Transport Executive | |||
| PTE | West Yorkshire (Metro) | ||
| Zone | 2 | ||
| History | |||
| Key dates | Opened December 1967 | ||
| National Rail - UK railway stations | |||
| * Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at New Pudsey from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. | |||
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New Pudsey railway station is in West Yorkshire, England, on the Caldervale Line from Leeds to Bradford Interchange, Halifax, Huddersfield, Manchester Victoria, and Blackpool North. Lying 9 km (5¾ miles) west of Leeds, it serves as a commuter station for the western edge of the Leeds conurbation.
This station opened on 6 March 1967, is located in Farsley — 1.6 km (1 mile) north-west of Pudsey town centre. The town was originally served by the Stanningley-Laisterdyke-Bradford loop, opened by the Great Northern Railway. There were two stations on the loop, Pudsey Lowtown and Pudsey Greenside, conveniently located at either end of the town centre (both closed on 15 June 1964 as a result of the Beeching Axe).
New Pudsey is situated just under a mile west of the location of what was Stanningley for Farsley station,[1] which closed on 30 December 1967, having supposedly been replaced by New Pudsey, although the two catchment areas were largely different.
The station is staffed and the ticket office is open from 0555 to 1900 on Mondays to Saturdays.
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[edit] New Pudsey Station on Television
The station was featured in a 1969 Monty Python's Flying Circus sketch (Science Fiction Sketch/Man Turns Into Scotsman) in which Harold Potter (Michael Palin) is turned into a Scotsman by creatures from the planet Skyron in the galaxy of Andromeda. Graham Chapman and Eric Idle (with Idle in drag) briefly appear on Platform 1 early in the sketch as Mr and Mrs Samuel Brainsample. Palin is later shown in a suit and bowler hat walking up the ramp from the platform toward town. At the beginning of the sketch reference is made to the alien visitors coming "to conquer and destroy the very heart of civilisation", with a fade-in to the sign reading "New Pudsey". Laughter follows. [1]
[edit] Services
[edit] Eastbound
During Monday to Saturday daytimes, there are four trains an hour to Leeds; in the evenings this service twice hourly. Two trains each hour continue beyond Leeds: one to York and the other to Selby. On Sundays there is a twice hourly service with one train each hour continuing to York.
[edit] Westbound
During Monday to Saturday daytimes there are four trains an hour to Bradford Interchange and Halifax. Two trains each hour continue to Manchester Victoria, one runs to Blackpool North and one to Wakefield Westgate via Huddersfield. The service is twice hourly in the evenings and on Sundays, with one train per hour running to Manchester Victoria and one to either Blackpool North or Huddersfield.
[edit] Gallery
 156498 at New Pudsey in June 2006 |
[edit] References
- ^ Stanningley GNR station, on the Leeds-Bradford line, opened in 1854; was renamed Stanningley for Farsley and then named Stanningley again in 1961.
[edit] External links
- Train times and station information for New Pudsey railway station from National Rail
| Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
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| Bradford Interchange | Northern Rail Caldervale Line |
Bramley | ||
| The town of Pudsey, England |
| Parliament Constituency | Pudsey Bear |
| Geography: Pudsey Beck | New Pudsey Railway Station | Fulneck | Fulneck School | Swinnow | Leeds | West Yorkshire |
| People: Paul Truswell | Len Hutton | Ray Illingworth | Joseph Hiley | John Tunnicliffe | Benjamin Latrobe |
| Former Districts: Farsley | Calverley |
| Other: Stanningley bypass | I Love West Leeds Festival |
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