Shepley railway station

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Shepley National Rail
The view from platform 2, with a train leaving for Huddersfield
Location
Place Shepley
Local authority Kirklees
Coordinates 53°35′20″N 1°42′19″W / 53.588950°N 1.705370°W / 53.588950; -1.705370Coordinates: 53°35′20″N 1°42′19″W / 53.588950°N 1.705370°W / 53.588950; -1.705370
Grid reference SE196103
Operations
Station code SPY
Managed by Northern Rail
Number of platforms 2
Live arrivals/departures and station information
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05 41,692
2005/06 42,793
2006/07 46,134
2007/08 52,770
2008/09 65,630
2009/10 64,926
2010/11 65,104
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE West Yorkshire (Metro)
Zone 5
History
Opened 1 July 1850[1] (1 July 1850[2])
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Shepley from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Shepley railway station serves the villages of Shepley and Shelley in West Yorkshire, England. It lies on the Penistone Line operated by Northern Rail. Opened by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in 1850, it is located at the southern end of one of the two passing loops on the otherwise single track section between Barnsley and Huddersfield. It was also the junction station for the branch line to Clayton West from its opening in 1879 until closure in 1983 – the branch has since been reopened as the narrow gauge Kirklees Light Railway, whose western terminus at Shelley is located just under a mile to the east.

The station layout is slightly unusual in that the platforms are staggered (on the opposite sides of a road bridge, as can be seen in the accompanying photo) rather than being located opposite each other like other stations on the route. The station once had a goods yard which has now been converted to housing.

In August 2013, plans were released to install electronic real-time information screens (CIS) at the station. They will be installed in early 2014.[3]

Services

On Mondays to Saturdays, trains operate hourly from Shepley in each direction, towards Huddersfield and Sheffield. Services are two-hourly each way on Sundays.

Preceding station   National Rail   Following station
Northern Rail
Disused railways
Terminus L&YR
Clayton West branch

References

  1. ↑ Bairstow, Martin (1993). The Huddersfield & Sheffield Junction Railway. Martin Bairstow. ISBN 1-871944-08-2. 
  2. ↑ Bairstow, Martin (1993). The Huddersfield & Sheffield Junction Railway. Martin Bairstow. ISBN 1-871944-08-2. 
  3. ↑ http://www.smart-rail.co.uk/?p=1093

External links

Railway stations in West Yorkshire
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