Shipley railway station

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Shipley

Platform 5
Location
Place	Shipley
Local authority	City of Bradford
Coordinates	53°49′59″N 1°46′24″W / 53.8331°N 1.7734°W / 53.8331; -1.7734Coordinates: 53°49′59″N 1°46′24″W / 53.8331°N 1.7734°W / 53.8331; -1.7734
Grid reference	SE150374
Operations
Station code	SHY
Managed by	Northern Rail
Number of platforms	5
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	0.831 million
2005/06	0.863 million
2006/07	0.902 million
2007/08	0.946 million
2008/09	1.275 million
2009/10	1.303 million
2010/11	1.483 million
2011/12	1.532 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	West Yorkshire (Metro)
Zone	3
History
Opened July 1846 (July 1846)
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Shipley from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Shipley railway station serves the historic market town of Shipley in West Yorkshire, England.

Train services are mostly commuter services between Leeds and Bradford, the Airedale Line (Leeds and Bradford to Skipton, via Keighley), and the Wharfedale Line (Leeds and Bradford to Ilkley). There are also a few main-line East Coast train services between Bradford or Skipton and London, and it also lies on the line from Leeds to Glasgow via the Settle-Carlisle Railway.

History

When the Leeds and Bradford Railway built the first railway link into Bradford in 1846, they did not take the shortest route, but a flatter and slightly longer one up Airedale to Shipley then south along Bradforddale to Bradford. They built stations at several places along the route, including Shipley, which opened in July 1846.^[1]

In 1847, the Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway was built from Shipley to Keighley and Skipton, creating the triangle of lines which surrounds today's station. The north curve was opened in 1848 and was on a much tighter alignment than the present 1883 curve. The original curve would pass through the car park.

The Leeds and Bradford was absorbed by the Midland Railway in 1851, and the Midland successively became part of the LMS and British Railways.

The Ordnance Survey map of Shipley in 1852 (surveyed between 1847 and 1850) shows the station some 500 m south of the present one, where Valley Road crosses the line to Bradford. However, an article in the Bradford and Wakefield Observer in February 1849 describes the station in its present position. It is not clear if it was moved in its first few years or there is an error on the map.

The present station was built at some time between 1883 and 1892, nestling between the western (Bradford-Skipton) and eastern (Leeds-Bradford) arms of the triangle. It was designed by the Midland's architect Charles Trubshaw. Platform 3 (on the Bradford-Leeds arm) was lengthened in 1990, to serve full-length InterCity trains. The northern (Leeds-Skipton) arm of the triangle is distant from the main station and had no platforms until May 1979. Before then, trains on the Leeds-Shipley-Skipton run had to come through the station to the Bradford branch and reverse. From 1979, there was a single platform there, on the inside of the triangle, so Skipton-Leeds trains had to cross over to reach it. The current platform 1 on the north side was built in 1992.

It is now one of two remaining triangular stations in the UK: the other being Earlestown station in Merseyside. Ambergate station was previously triangular but only retains one platform and Queensbury station was closed to passengers in 1955.

Until the Beeching Axe closures of 1965, the next stations from Shipley were Saltaire on the Airedale Line to the west, Baildon on the Wharfedale Line to the North, Apperley Bridge in the east towards Leeds, and Frizinghall in the south towards Bradford. Baildon station closed in 1953, but on 20 March 1965, the other three of these stations closed, along with another dozen stations and the local service between Bradford and Leeds. Most of the services through Shipley were under threat and hung in the balance until the West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive adopted them in the 1970s. Three of these adjacent stations have since been reopened (Baildon on 5 January 1973, Saltaire in April 1984, and Frizinghall in 1987). There are currently no intermediate stations between Shipley and Leeds although there are approved plans to reopen the station at Apperley Bridge and construct a new station at Kirkstall Forge by 2012.

Between 1875 and 1931, there was a second station, Shipley and Windhill railway station on Leeds Road very close to Shipley Station.

Platforms 1 and 2 from the footbridge

The view from platform 2

The view from platform 3

Platform 5

Access

The station lies to the east of the town centre, across Otley Road, There is no access directly from Otley Road: pedestrian access from town is either via a tunnel at the bottom of Station Road, or from Stead Street onto platform 1. Vehicular access is from the side away from town, under the bridge and up a long cobbled drive from Briggate and there is a large car-park between the main station and platforms 1/2.

There are no bus stops on the station forecourt: bus connections are either on Briggate/Leeds Road, or in the Market Square. There is also no taxi rank within the station: again, passengers need to go into the town centre.

Services

Most of the services are commuter services operated by Northern Rail, as part of the MetroTrain network. During Monday to Saturday daytimes, these operate every 30 minutes on each of the following routes:

In the evening a half hourly service is maintained between Leeds and Skipton. Ilkley and Skipton to Bradford are hourly. There is no direct service between Leeds and Bradford but a shuttle from Shipley to Bradford connects with Leeds departures. On Sundays, Ilkley/Skipton - Bradford is every 2 hours with Skipton and Bradford to Leeds every hour. These services are mostly operated by Northern Rail Class 333 electric multiple units, although Class 321 and Class 322 sets are used on some weekday workings.

There are also a number of trains each day from Leeds to Carlisle (seven on weekdays and four on Sundays) and Morecambe (four on weekdays and Sundays; both routes operated by Northern Rail), and from both Skipton and Bradford Forster Square to London King's Cross (via Leeds), which are operated by East Coast (the return service from Kings Cross to Skipton is the only scheduled service on the Airedale Line that does not call here).

The station is covered by a Public Address System (PA), voiced by Phil Sayer.

Preceding station	National Rail		Following station
Leeds		East Coast East Coast Main Line	Bradford Forster Square or Keighley
Leeds		Northern Rail Leeds-Bradford Line	Frizinghall
Leeds or Frizinghall		Northern Rail Airedale Line	Saltaire
Leeds		Northern Rail Leeds-Morecambe Line	Bingley
Leeds		Northern Rail Settle-Carlisle Line	Bingley
Frizinghall		Northern Rail Wharfedale Line	Baildon
	Historical railways
Frizinghall		Midland Railway Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway	Saltaire
Frizinghall		Midland Railway Leeds and Bradford Railway	Idle

References

↑ Joy, David (1984). A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain Volume VIII South and West Yorkshire. David St John Thomas. ISBN 0-946537-11-9.

Bairstow, Martin 2004 Railways Through Airedale & Wharfedale. ISBN 1-871944-28-7
Chapman, Stephen N.D. Railway Memories No. 7: Airedale & Wharfedaile Bellcode books. ISBN 1-871233-05-4
Dewick, Tony 2002 Compete Atlas of Railway Station Names Ian Allan Publishing. ISBN 0-7110-2798-6
Heritage Cartography N.D. Shipley 1847 (based on the Ordnance Survey 1:10,560 County Series Map: Yourshire CGI: Survey of 1847). ISBN 1-903004-90-X
Sheeran, George 1994 Railway Buildings of West Yorkshire, 1812-1920 Ryburn. ISBN 1-85331-100-6
Smith, FW & Martin Bairstow The Otley and Ilkley Joint Railway Martin Bairstow. ISBN 1-871944-06-6.
Whitaker, Alan & Brian Myland 1993 Railway Memories No. 4: Bradford Bellcode books. ISBN 1-871233-03-8

External links

Train times and station information for Shipley railway station from National Rail

v t e Railway stations in West Yorkshire

MetroTrain lines	■ Airedale ■ Caldervale ■ Dearne Valley ■ Hallam ■ Harrogate ■ Huddersfield ■ Leeds-Bradford ■ Penistone ■ Pontefract ■ Wakefield ■ Wharfedale ■ York & Selby

City of Bradford	Baildon Ben Rhydding Bingley Bradford Forster Square Bradford Interchange Burley-in-Wharfedale Crossflatts Frizinghall Ilkley Keighley Menston Saltaire Shipley Steeton and Silsden

Calderdale	Brighouse Halifax Hebden Bridge Mytholmroyd Sowerby Bridge Todmorden Walsden

Kirklees	Batley Berry Brow Brockholes Deighton Denby Dale Dewsbury Honley Huddersfield Lockwood Marsden Mirfield Ravensthorpe Shepley Slaithwaite Stocksmoor

City of Leeds	Bramley Burley Park Cottingley Cross Gates East Garforth Garforth Guiseley Headingley Horsforth Leeds Micklefield Morley New Pudsey Woodlesford

City of Wakefield	Castleford Featherstone Fitzwilliam Glasshoughton Knottingley Moorthorpe Normanton Outwood Pontefract Baghill Pontefract Monkhill Pontefract Tanshelf Sandal and Agbrigg South Elmsall Streethouse Wakefield Kirkgate Wakefield Westgate

Outside West Yorkshire, but within the West Yorkshire Metro area	Cononley Darton Skipton

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