Walsden railway station

Walsden
The view from platform 2
Location
Place	Walsden, Todmorden
Local authority	Calderdale
Coordinates	53°41′47″N 2°06′17″W / 53.696340°N 2.104670°W / 53.696340; -2.104670Coordinates: 53°41′47″N 2°06′17″W / 53.696340°N 2.104670°W / 53.696340; -2.104670
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	0.126 million
2005/06	0.133 million
2006/07	0.120 million
2007/08	0.117 million
2008/09	0.113 million
2009/10	95,548
2010/11	99,048
2011/12	92,620
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	West Yorkshire (Metro)
Zone	5
History
Opened 1990 (1990)
National Rail – UK railway stations
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. 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]

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 call only at Halifax, Hebden Bridge, Todmorden and Rochdale).

Walsden passengers have a poorer service than they used to, especially for commuters who travel back from Manchester, compared to the half-hourly service that operated in July 2008.^[3]

History

It was the only place in Todmorden to be bombed during the Second World War Blitz, probably because the German plane had a leftover bomb after a raid and so dropped it on what appeared to be an important site.

References

External links

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

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Littleborough		Northern Rail Caldervale Line		Todmorden

[ v t e ] Calderdale Lines (Past, present and future)

Legend ( To Bradford ) ( To Bradford ) Queensbury Holmfield Bailiff Bridge Lightcliffe / Clifton Road Wheatley ( To Kirklees ) Ovenden Brighouse North Bridge Hipperholme Pellon Elland Power Station St Pauls Elland Halifax South Parade Greetland Shaw Syke Rochdale Road Halt Copley West Vale Stainland and Holywell Green Sowerby Bridge Watson's Crossing Halt Luddendenfoot Triangle Ripponden and Barkisland ( To Burnley ) Rishworth Portsmouth Mytholmroyd Cornholme Hebden Bridge Stansfield Hall Eastwood Todmorden Walsden ( To Rochdale )