Bramley railway station (West Yorkshire)

Coordinates: 53°48′20″N 1°38′17″W / 53.80558°N 1.63792°W / 53.80558; -1.63792
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Bramley (West Yorkshire)
West Yorkshire (Metro)
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeBLE
Fare zone2
ClassificationDfT category F1
History
Original companyLeeds, Bradford and Halifax Junction Railway
Pre-groupingGreat Northern Railway
Post-groupingLondon and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
1 August 1854Station opened
4 July 1966Station closed
12 September 1983Station reopened
Passengers
2018/19Decrease 0.336 million
2019/20Increase 0.352 million
2020/21Decrease 71,306
2021/22Increase 0.196 million
2022/23Increase 0.258 million
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Bramley railway station serves the suburb of

Bramley, Leeds, England. It lies on the Calder Valley line 4 miles (6 km) west from Leeds
.

History

The original station in April 1961

The original station was opened by the

British Railways on 4 July 1966,[1]
the last trains having called on 2 July. The station had platforms opposite each other and were connected by a footbridge.

The present station off Stanningley Road opened on 12 September 1983

West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive) and British Rail. The station's two wooden platforms are staggered, and cost £125,000 (equivalent to £533,000 in 2023).[2]

Facilities

Waiting shelter on platform 1 in March 2020

The station is not staffed and has a ticket machine on platform 2 as of spring 2019. There are shelters and passenger information screens on each platform, along with a system to provide train running information. Though there are ramps to each platform, disabled access to platform 2 is restricted by the path being narrow and opening out onto a busy main road.[3]

Services

Monday to Saturday daytimes, three trains per hour head eastbound towards

Manchester Victoria, whilst the third terminates there (passengers for Brighouse and Huddersfield now need to change trains at Bradford Interchange on weekdays). One Manchester service now runs through to Chester via Warrington Bank Quay since the May 2019 timetable update.[4]

There is an additional 4th [train per hour] that runs Mon-Fri eastbound, just before 8am, which is operated by Grand Central on behalf of Northern - as such, tickets cannot be purchased on this service.

On Sundays there are two trains per hour towards Leeds and to Bradford Interchange. One westbound service runs through to Manchester and the other runs to Huddersfield.[5]

The

Northern service to Preston
passes through Bramley but does not stop there.

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 1-85260-508-1
    . R508.
  2. ISSN 2052-3173
    .
  3. ^ Bramley station facilities National Rail Enquiries; Retrieved 30 November 2016
  4. ^ Table 37 National Rail timetable, May 2023
  5. ^ "Campaigners welcome extra train boost". Bradford Telegraph and Argus. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  • Martin Bairstow (1999). The Great Northern Railway in the West Riding.
    ISBN 1-871944-19-8
    .

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