Cononley railway station

Cononley National Rail
Location
Place Cononley
Local authority Craven
Coordinates 53°55′02″N 2°00′43″W / 53.9173°N 2.0119°W / 53.9173; -2.0119Coordinates: 53°55′02″N 2°00′43″W / 53.9173°N 2.0119°W / 53.9173; -2.0119
Grid reference SD993467
Operations
Station code CEY
Managed by Northern
Number of platforms 2
DfT category F1
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2011/12 Increase 0.152 million
2012/13 Increase 0.155 million
2013/14 Increase 0.170 million
2014/15 Increase 0.186 million
2015/16 Decrease 0.166 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE West Yorkshire (Metro)
Zone 7
History
1847 Opened
22 March 1965 Closed
1988 Reopened
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Cononley from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
UK Railways portal

Cononley railway station serves the village of Cononley in North Yorkshire, England. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by Northern.

It was originally opened in late 1847, at a cost of £900, by the Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway.[1] It was closed on 22 March 1965,[2] though its platforms remained intact and the main buildings survived until the mid-1970s.[3]

It was reopened by British Rail in 1988 at a cost of £34,000, which was borne by the county, district and local parish councils and the Rural Development Commission.

The station has two platforms and is right beside Cononley's main street. Step-free access is available to both platforms, via the level crossing at the Skipton end of the station. It is unstaffed and has no ticket machine so passengers intending to travel must buy their tickets in advance or on the train.[4] An automated Tannoy system and digital information screens provide train running information to passengers.

Services

During Monday to Saturday daytime, there is a half-hourly service from Skipton to both Leeds and Bradford Forster Square and four trains an hour towards Skipton. In the evenings there is a half-hourly service to Leeds, an hourly service to Bradford Forster Square and three trains per hour to Skipton.[5]

On Sundays is an hourly service to Leeds and a two-hourly service to Bradford with one or two trains per hour to Skipton.

These services are normally provided by Class 333 or Class 322 EMUs.

Services towards Morecambe and Carlisle normally pass through without stopping, but the first weekday morning service to Carlisle and the last evening train from Ribblehead to Leeds both serve the station. One early morning service to Lancaster calls on a Saturday and one to both Morecambe abd Carlisle stops here on Sunday mornings.

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Steeton and Silsden   Northern
Airedale Line		   Skipton
Steeton and Silsden   Northern
Leeds-Morecambe Line		   Skipton
Steeton and Silsden   Northern
Settle-Carlisle Line		   Skipton
Historical railways
Kildwick and Crosshills
Station closed; Line open		   Midland Railway
Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway		   Skipton

Notes

  1. ↑ Binns, p. 8
  2. ↑ Binns, p. 23
  3. ↑ Shipley to Skipton - Cononley (1975) Lost Railways - West Yorkshire; Retrieved 1 December 2016
  4. ↑ Cononley station facilities National Rail Enquiries; Retrieved 29 November 2016
  5. ↑ GB National Rail Timetable December 2016 Edition, Table 36 (Network Rail)

References


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