Batley railway station

Batley
The entrance
Location
Place	Batley
Local authority	Kirklees
Coordinates	53°42′36″N 1°37′23″W / 53.709910°N 1.623020°W / 53.709910; -1.623020Coordinates: 53°42′36″N 1°37′23″W / 53.709910°N 1.623020°W / 53.709910; -1.623020
Grid reference	SE249237
Operations
Station code	BTL
Managed by	Northern Rail
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	0.122 million
2005/06	0.138 million
2006/07	0.145 million
2007/08	0.150 million
2008/09	0.237 million
2009/10	0.242 million
2010/11	0.273 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	West Yorkshire (Metro)
Zone	2
History
Opened 1848 (1848)
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Batley from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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The station in 1961

Batley railway station serves the town of Batley in West Yorkshire, England. The station opened in 1848.

The station is 8 miles (13 km) to the south west of Leeds. Trains from Batley go towards either Leeds northbound or Huddersfield/Hebden Bridge southbound on the Huddersfield Line operated by Northern Rail.

Services

Mondays to Saturdays in the daytime, there is typically a half-hourly service from Batley to Leeds and to Dewsbury. The latter continues to either Huddersfield or Manchester Victoria via Brighouse and Todmorden. Additional services run during peak times.

Evenings, there is an hourly service northbound to Leeds and southbound to Huddersfield. Sundays, there is a two-hourly service in each direction.

History

The station was at one time rather larger than it is today, as it was also served by the Great Northern Railway branch line from Bradford to Wakefield via Dewsbury Central from August 1864 to 7 September 1964, when it fell victim to the Beeching Axe.^[1] It was also the junction for branch lines to Birstall (opened in 1852 and closed to passengers as a wartime economy measure in 1917) and Tingley (closed in 1951).

Few traces of any of these routes remain today, but the abutments of the former bridge that took the Bradford line across the line from Leeds near Batley signal box (east of the station) can still be seen.

Notes

Gallery

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  Platform 2

External links

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

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Dewsbury		Northern Rail Huddersfield Line		Morley

[ v t e ] Railways in North Kirklees (Past, present and future)

Legend 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