Walsden railway station

Walsden
The view from platform 2
Location
Place Walsden, Todmorden
Local authority Calderdale
Grid reference SD931222
Operations
Station code WDN
Managed by Northern Rail
Number of platforms 2
Live arrivals/departures and station information
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 * 126,180
2005/06 * 132,703
2006/07 * 120,071
2007/08 * 116,666
2008/09 * 112,608
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE West Yorkshire (Metro)
Zone 5
History
Opened 1990 (1990)
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Walsden from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.
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Walsden railway station serves the village of Walsden, Todmorden in West Yorkshire, England, on the edge of the Pennines.

It is served by the Caldervale Line operated by Northern Rail. The station is 32 miles (51 km) west of Leeds and 17.25 miles (28 km) north east of Manchester Victoria. Walsden is the last station before the boundary with Greater Manchester. The station was opened by Metro (West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive) on 10 September 1990 as a replacement for an earlier structure that closed on 6 August 1961. This earlier station, which was opened in 1845 by the Manchester & Leeds Railway, predecessor of the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, was situated between the level crossing and the north portal of Winterbutlee Tunnel, a few yards south of the present station.[1][2]

Contents

Services

There is an hourly service to Manchester Victoria southbound and to Leeds via Halifax northbound with extra trains during peak times in each direction.

December 2008 Service Changes

Northern Rail implemented changes to the Caldervale line services from December 2008. Three trains per hour now ran between Leeds and Manchester Victoria - one was the current stopping service (which is the one that calls here), one runs via Dewsbury and Brighouse (and include stops at Moston, Mills Hill and Castleton) and one was a limited stop service - between Bradford and Manchester the service will only call at Halifax, Hebden Bridge, Todmorden and Rochdale. Walsden passengers now have a poorer service, especially for those commuters who travel back from Manchester opposed to the half hourly service currently operated (July 2008).[3]

History

It was the only place in Todmorden to be bombed during the Second World War Blitz. This is presumed to be because a German plane had a bomb left over after a raid and dropped it there based on the possibility that the station might be useful to Britain's war effort.

References

  1. ^ Bairstow, M. (1983), The Manchester & Leeds Railway (The Calder Valley Line), Wyvern Publishing, Skipton, ISBN 0-90794-106-0, p. 72
  2. ^ Joy, D. (1975), A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain, Volume 8, David & Charles, Newton Abbot, ISBN 0-7153-6883-4
  3. ^ WYPTE Rail Working Group Report - Proposed Northern December 2008 Timetable 16 May 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-30.

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Preceding station National Rail Following station
Littleborough
towards Manchester Victoria		   Northern Rail
Caldervale Line		   Todmorden
towards Leeds via Dewsbury
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