Ravensthorpe railway station

Ravensthorpe
Ravensthorpe station, looking towards Dewsbury and Leeds
Location
Place Ravensthorpe
Local authority Kirklees
Grid reference SE228199
Operations
Station code RVN
Managed by Northern Rail
Number of platforms 2
Live arrivals/departures and station information
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 *   12,334
2005/06 * 14,255
2006/07 * 15,501
2007/08 * 16,323
2008/09 * 19,526
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE West Yorkshire (Metro)
Zone 3
History
Opened 1890 (1890)
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Ravensthorpe from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.
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Ravensthorpe railway station serves the Ravensthorpe district of Dewsbury in West Yorkshire, England. It lies on the Huddersfield Line operated by Northern Rail and is 8 miles (13 km) north east of Huddersfield, just beyond Dewsbury junction of the former Manchester and Leeds Railway line towards Wakefield Kirkgate and on the main line to Leeds (the former Leeds, Dewsbury & Manchester Railway). The station's platforms are only located on the latter route. A late addition to the LNWR line (station and goods shed built 1890, although the line itself opened some 42 years earlier) to snap up freight work in the area for the company, it remains a curiosity as to why platforms have not been extended to serve the Wakefield lines. It is unstaffed (the former station buildings having been demolished after being damaged by fire and replaced with basic shelters) and passengers travelling from there must buy their tickets on the train. Ravensthorpe is one of West Yorkshire's least used station due to its relatively remote location (although it does serve the nearby town of Thornhill).

Services

Generally an hourly service operates from Ravensthorpe towards Huddersfield and Leeds. One a.m. peak service in each direction on the Calder Valley line via Brighouse also calls, including one through train to Manchester Victoria.

Sundays there is a two-hourly service towards both Leeds and Huddersfield.

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Railways in North Kirklees (Past, present and future)
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To Bradford
Birstall Town
To Leeds
Gomersal
Howden Clough
Lower Birstall
Upper Batley
To Leeds
Carlinghow
To Bradford
To Leeds
Cleckheaton Central
Cleckheaton Spen
Batley
Liversedge Central
Liversedge Spen
Chickenley Heath
Heckmondwike Central
Heckmondwike Spen
Batley Carr
To Wakefield
Staincliffe and Batley Carr
Dewsbury Central
Earlsheaton
To Wakefield
Dewsbury Wellington Road
Ravensthorpe Lower
Dewsbury Market Place
Northorpe Higher
Northorpe North Road
To Wakefield
Ravensthorpe
Dewsbury Midland Goods
Battyeford
Thornhill
Mirfield
To Royston and Notton
To Huddersfield
To Huddersfield
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