Wharfedale Line

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Wharfedale Line

Overview
Locale	West Yorkshire Yorkshire and the Humber
Operation
Owner	Network Rail
Operator(s)	Northern Rail
Rolling stock	British Rail Class 333
Technical
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8¹⁄₂ in) standard gauge

Wharfedale Line

Legend

Leeds

Kirkstall Forge (To open 2014)

Bradford Forster Square

Frizinghall

Shipley

Baildon

Esholt Junction

To Yeadon

Guiseley

To High Royds hospital

To Otley

To Addingham &c

The Wharfedale Line is the name given to one of the rail services in the West Yorkshire Metro area of northern England. The service connects Ilkley with Leeds and Bradford, and is operated by Northern Rail. West Yorkshire Metrocards are available for use on the line, covering Zones 3 - 5. The line is served predominantly by four-coach Class 333 electric multiple units.

The route

The line was originally owned by the Midland Railway from Leeds to Burley-in-Wharfedale. At this point the line became joint property, with the North Eastern Railway, and was known as the Otley & Ilkley Joint Railway (O&IJt). The two lines from Leeds and Bradford come together at Esholt Junction - the location of an 1892 crash - south of Guiseley.

The route from Leeds leaves the main line near Calverley and continues along the Aire valley until climbing a hill to:

Guiseley railway station
Menston railway station
Burley-in-Wharfedale railway station
Ben Rhydding railway station
Ilkley railway station

A new station, Kirkstall Forge, is planned on the Aire Valley section of the route between Leeds and Guiseley. Plans also exist to reinstate the O&IJt branch line to Otley from Milner Wood Junction, between Menston and Burley.

The first section of the route from Bradford Forster Square is also used by the Airedale and Leeds-Bradford Line. The service to Ilkley branches north of Shipley railway station to:

Baildon railway station a reopened station
Esholt: station closed
Apperley Junction for the line from Leeds
and on to Guiseley, Menston, Burley-in-Wharfedale, Ben Rhydding, and Ilkley

The line was electrified throughout using 25kV AC Overhead between 1994 and 1995.

The now-closed and lifted Midland line continued west of Ilkley via Addingham, Bolton Abbey and Embsay to Skipton. The section from Embsay to Bolton Abbey has been reopened by enthusiasts who operates steam locomotives as the Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway.

External links

Railway lines in Yorkshire and the Humber

Primary

To London	East Coast Main Line Midland Main Line

To Exeter	Cross Country Route

Others

Inter-regional	Hallam Line Hope Valley Line Leeds to Morecambe Line Doncaster to Lincoln Line Sheffield to Lincoln Line Settle-Carlisle Line

Intra-regional	Airedale Line Askern Branch Line Barton Line Caldervale Line Dearne Valley Line Esk Valley Line Harrogate Line Huddersfield Line Hull to York Line Leeds-Bradford Lines Leeds-Northallerton Railway Northallerton–Eaglescliffe Line Penistone Line Pontefract Line Sheffield to Hull Line Wakefield Line Wharfedale Line York & Selby Lines Yorkshire Coast Line York to Scarborough Line

Heritage

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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