Slaithwaite railway station

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Slaithwaite
Location
Place	Slaithwaite
Local authority	Kirklees
Operations
Station code	SWT
Managed by	Northern Rail
Platforms in use	2
Live departures and station information from National Rail
Annual Rail Passenger Usage
2004/05 *	98,871
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	West Yorkshire (Metro)
Zone	5
History
Key dates	Opened 1982
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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Slaithwaite from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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Slaithwaite railway station serves the village of Slaithwaite near Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. The station is 6 km (4 miles) west of Huddersfield on the Huddersfield Line between Huddersfield and Manchester Victoria.

The station is situated between the centre of the village and the "Hill Top" residential area. The station has two platforms with a car park and bus stop at the approach to Platform 2. The current station was opened on 13 December 1982 by Metro (the West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive). It is on the site of an earlier station which closed in 1968.

[edit] Services

From Monday to Saturday, Slaithwaite is served by an hourly Northern Rail service from Manchester Victoria station to Huddersfield station. On Sundays, it is served by a two-hourly service from Marsden station to Leeds station.

The more frequent TransPennine Express service, from Manchester Piccadilly station and points west to Huddersfield station and points east, passes through Slaithwaite without stopping.

[edit] Gallery

Platform 2.

Railways in South Kirklees

Legend To Heckmondwike To Dewsbury and Wakefield To Calderdale Cooper Bridge (Closed) Bradley Deighton Huddersfield Kirkheaton (Dismantled) Fenay Bridge & Lepton (Dismantled) Longwood & Milnsbridge (Closed) Lockwood Golcar (Closed) Kirkburton (Dismantled) Netherton (Dismantled) Berry Brow Slaithwaite Healey House (Dismantled) Meltham (Dismantled) Honley Marsden Brockholes To Saddleworth Thongsbridge (Dismantled) Stocksmoor Holmfirth (Dismantled) Shepley To Barnsley Shelley Skelmanthorpe Cuckoos Nest (Private Line) Clayton West

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Marsden		Northern Rail Huddersfield Line		Huddersfield
Disused Railways
N/A		L&NWR Huddersfield Line		Golcar

[edit] External links

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

Railway stations in West Yorkshire
MetroTrain lines: ▐ Airedale • ▐ Caldervale • ║ Dearne Valley • ▐ Hallam Line • ▐ Harrogate • ▐ Huddersfield • ▐ 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