Halifax railway station (England)
Halifax West Yorkshire (Metro) | |
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Platforms | 2 |
Other information | |
Station code | HFX |
Fare zone | 4 |
Classification | DfT category C2 |
History | |
Original company | Manchester and Leeds Railway |
Pre-grouping | Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway |
Post-grouping | London, Midland and Scottish Railway |
Key dates | |
1 July 1844 | First station opened as Halifax Shaw Syke |
7 August 1850 | Resited and named Halifax |
23 June 1855 | Permanent buildings opened |
1885–86 | Rebuilt and enlarged |
June 1890 | Renamed Halifax Old |
30 September 1951 | Renamed Halifax Town |
12 June 1961 | Renamed Halifax |
Passengers | |
2018/19 | 1.843 million |
Interchange | 69,474 |
2019/20 | 1.914 million |
Interchange | 53,319 |
2020/21 | 0.369 million |
Interchange | 15,671 |
2021/22 | 1.165 million |
Interchange | 49,706 |
2022/23 | 1.419 million |
Interchange | 56,092 |
Notes | |
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
Halifax railway station serves the town of Halifax in West Yorkshire, England. It lies on the Calder Valley line and is 17 miles (27 km) west from Leeds.
Platform 2 is used by eastbound services towards
To the east, the line also divided with the current line passing into Beacon Hill tunnel and a disused line via Halifax North Bridge to Ovenden, then going on to a junction at Holmfield with the Halifax High level line which had stations in Pellon and at St Paul's, Queens Road; and via Queensbury to Bradford and Keighley, for destinations in the North-West.
Description
The station has a car park, bicycle parking and a pick up point, like many other stations. There is also a staffed ticket booth with option of paying for a ticket using a ticket machine. A lift to the platform is available for wheelchair users, but there are currently no lower counters for easier access to buy tickets.[1]
Entry to the station is via a cobbled road bridge from opposite the bottom of Horton Street.
History
The original station was built at Shaw Syke, approximately 220 yards (200 m) west of the current location[2] and opened on 1 July 1844 by the Manchester and Leeds Railway as the terminus of a branch off their main line from Manchester to Normanton.[3][4] With the opening of the line between Halifax and Bradford on 7 August 1850, a new station was opened on the current site; this had temporary wooden buildings.[4][5] The station at Shaw Syke was then extended and used as a goods depot[6] The permanent buildings at the current site were designed by Thomas Butterworth[7] and opened on 23 June 1855.[8] This Grade II listed building housed the nursery associated with the Eureka! Children's Museum until its closure on 18 December 2020.
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Halifax station was redesigned during 1884–85 and completely rebuilt with six through platforms in 1885–86. Part of the new station opened on 25 October 1885 and the remainder on 30 May 1886. The new station had separate accommodation for LYR and GNR trains; the latter being on the west side.[9]
To distinguish it from Halifax St. Paul's and Halifax North Bridge stations, the main station was known from June 1890 as Halifax Old Station. On 30 September 1951, the name was changed again to Halifax Town and, on 12 June 1961, it reverted to Halifax.[4]
The
The Queensbury branch as a whole was closed in stages from 1955 onwards, although many of its engineering features remain. The route has lately been adopted and to an extent brought back into public use and attention by Sustrans as a walking and cycle route. The principal structure on the line, Queensbury Tunnel, was, at its opening, the longest on the GNR system at 2,501 yards (2.287 km). It is currently derelict, partially flooded and impassible, although a campaign is (as of 2017[update]) underway to save it for inclusion in the Sustrans route.
A campaign, run by the local newspaper the
Work began in May 2009 on a £2.5 million refurbishment scheme that has seen the station footbridge and canopies repaired, new glazing and lighting installed and repainting of the structures.[12] The second phase of the refurbishment, covering the platform and the concourse, was completed in November 2010.[13]
In October 2014, plans were submitted to bring platform 3 back into use to create three platforms together with signalling improvements.
Services
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Past, present and future
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Northern Trains Route 9 |
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Calder Valley Line and
East Lancashire Line |
Eastbound: Monday to Saturdays there are now five departures per hour to Bradford, of which four continue to Leeds (the ex-Huddersfield service terminates at Bradford). Two of the latter continue beyond Leeds - one to
Westbound: Monday to Saturday daytimes there is a half-hourly service to
On Sundays there is a hourly service to each of Blackpool North and Huddersfield and two per hour to Manchester (with hourly extensions to Chester).[17]
New Northern Rail franchisee
London services
The station now sees regular services to
Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
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Sowerby Bridge | Calder Valley Line
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Low Moor | ||
Brighouse | ||||
Brighouse | Grand Central London-Bradford |
Low Moor | ||
Disused railways | ||||
Copley | Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway | North Bridge | ||
Greetland | Hipperholme |
See also
References
- ^ Station facilities at Halifax
- ^ Heritage Locations - Halifax Station www.transportheritage.com; Retrieved 2 December 2013
- ISBN 0-7153-4352-1.
- ^ ISBN 1-85260-508-1. R508.
- ^ Marshall 1969, pp. 251, 253
- ^ Our Early Railways - Halifax Town Online Archived 3 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine Washington, Geoffrey (1 April 2008), www.halifaxtown.co.uk; Retrieved 2 December 2013
- ^ Railway Station, Halifax; From Weaver to Web www.calderdale.gov.uk; Retrieved 2 December 2013
- ^ Marshall 1969, p. 253
- ISBN 0-7153-4906-6.
- ^ Featherstone, Megan (1 March 2007). "Give Halifax a proper station". Halifax Evening Courier. Retrieved 19 May 2010.
- ^ Featherstone, Megan (19 March 2007). "Action pledge on our station". Halifax Evening Courier. Retrieved 19 May 2010.
- ^ "£2.5 million Investment at Halifax Station" (Press release). Network Rail. 11 May 2009. Archived from the original on 29 February 2012. Retrieved 19 May 2010.
- ^ Halifax Rail Station refurbishment (Second phase of work)
- ^ "Ambitions for multi-million pound revamp of Halifax railway station". Halifax Courier. 17 October 2014. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
- ^ "Track and signalling works target journey time and capacity" Halifax and District Rail Action Group; Retrieved 11 August 2017
- ^ "West Yorkshire signalling upgrade". networkrail.co.uk. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
- ^ Table 37 National Rail timetable, May 2023
- ^ "Northern Franchise Improvements - DfT". Archived from the original on 24 July 2019. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
- ^ New trains pledged as Government changes Yorkshire’s main local rail operatorThe Star news article 9 December 2015; Retrieved 17 December 2015
- ^ ORR Track Access Applications Decision for ECML Passenger Services - 28 January 2009 Archived 24 March 2009 at the UK Government Web Archive ORR Website; Retrieved 29 January 2009
- ^ Grand Central Rail - Future Developments www.grandcentralrail.co.uk; Retrieved 21 August 2009
- RAILissue 641
- ^ Grand Central On Track To Deliver Extra Service in YorkshireGrand Central press release; Retrieved 14 October 2013
External links
- Train times and station information for Halifax railway station (England) from National Rail