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Past, present and future
to Ilkley York and Selby Lines to Church Fenton ROF Thorp Arch York and Selby Lines to Church Fenton Thorp Arch Circular Railway Thorp Arch Harrogate Line to Harrogate York and Selby Lines to Selby Otley Micklefield Pool Wetherby Racecourse Harrogate Line to Harrogate Wetherby (York Road) Menston Wakefield Lines to Castleford Arthington Ledston Golden Acre Park Rly Wetherby High Royds Hospital Railway East Leeds Parkway /Roman Road to Shipley Bowers Halt to Shipley Collingham Bridge Apperley Bridge Kippax Guiseley Bardsey Calverley & Rodley East Garforth Yeadon Thorner Leeds Bradford Airport (proposed)				Aberford
Newlay and Horsforth					Garforth
Horsforth					HS2 to York
Kirkstall Forge					Scholes
Horsforth Woodside					Barnbow ROF
Kirkstall Abbey					Manston (1851–1869)
Headingley					HS2 to Methley
Kirkstall Bridge Road					Penda's Way
Kirkstall					Cross Gates
Burley Park					Halton Dial (1851–1864)
Armley Mills Museum					Osmondthorpe
Royal Gardens (Summer 1857)					Cardigan Lane Goods
Armley Canal Road					Hunslet Goods (NER)
Montague's Field					Marsh Lane
Wellington Street Goods					Hunslet Goods (GNR)
Leeds Central					Leeds Wellington
Holbeck					Leeds (New Station)
Whitehall Junction					New Lane (HS2 )
Holbeck Junction					Hunslet Swing Bridge
Leeds Whitehall					Farnley Viaduct
Whitehall Road Goods					Cassons Close (MR)
Copley Hill					Kidacre Street (MR)
Wortley West Curve					Hunslet Lane
Armley and Wortley					Middleton Old Run
Farnley & Wortley					Hunslet
Bramley					Moor Road
Beeston					Balm Road Sidings
Stanningley					GNR Hunslet Goods Branch
Pudsey Lowtown					Middleton River Branch ca. 1755–1809
New Pudsey					Park Halt
Pudsey Greenside					Leeds Freightliner terminal
to Bradford via Laisterdyke					Jane Pit (MR)
to Shipley via Idle					Stourton Junction
Tingley					Ardsley
to Dudley Hill					Rothwell
Farnley Branch					Robin Hood
to Bradford via Laisterdyke					Woodkirk
Cottingley					to Newmarket Colliery
Churwell					to Batley'
Gildersome East					Woodlesford
Morley Low					Outwood
Morley Top					HS2 to Garforth
Gildersome West					Methley
to Huddersfield					to Wakefield
to Batley					HS2 to Crofton
Drighlington & Adwalton					Methley Junction
to Batley					Methley South
Wakefield Lines to Normanton via Altofts					Wakefield Lines to Castleford Cutsyke
to Dudley Hill					Wakefield Lines to Castleford

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Lines

This map represents past, present and possible future railways within the 2015 boundaries of the City of Leeds. Currently the West Yorkshire Metro advertises nine lines radiating from Leeds station, mostly operated by Northern Trains:

• Harrogate line Harrogate, Knaresborough and York
• Wharfedale line to Guiseley and Ilkley
• Airedale line to Shipley and Skipton
• Calder Valley line to New Pudsey, Bradford, Halifax and Manchester Victoria
• Huddersfield line to Dewsbury, Huddersfield, Manchester and Liverpool
• Wakefield line to Wakefield, Doncaster and Sheffield
• Hallam Line to Barnsley, Sheffield and Nottingham via Normanton
• Pontefract line to Castleford, Pontefract and Knottingley
• York and Selby lines to Selby and York via Micklefield

Metro also publish a Leeds/Bradford timetable with trains that run between Leeds and Bradford Forster Square via Shipley, along with Calder Valley line trains serving Leeds, New Pudsey and Bradford Interchange. A regular shuttle runs between Leeds and Bradford on the Shipley route as do London expresses serving both cities.

The Airedale Line also hosts services to Morecambe and to Carlisle via Settle.

All services on the York and Selby Lines are extensions of Caldervale Line trains and the TransPennine Expresses which dominate the Huddersfield line.

The Wakefield Line is also used by expresses on the East Coast Main Line, the Midland Main Line and the Cross Country Route. London North Eastern Railway also serve Bradford, Skipton and Harrogate.

York to Blackpool (Roses Line) trains follow the Caldervale route until just before Todmorden, then go through Burnley and along the East Lancashire line via Blackburn and Preston to Blackpool.

Leeds also has one heritage line, the Middleton Railway.

Prior to the Railways Act 1921, which led to the 1923 grouping of railways in Britain, most railways in Leeds were owned by five companies.

• The North Eastern Railway, NER
• The Great Northern Railway, GNR
• The Midland Railway, MR
• The London and North Western Railway, LNWR
• The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, LYR

Upon grouping at the start of 1923 the NER and GNR (along with the smaller East and West Yorks Union Railway) joined the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER). The other main players all became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS). The Middleton Railway remained independent, as did the Aberford Railway until its closure the following year.

Opening dates

The railways shown here were opened in the years shown by the following companies (final pre-grouping owner shown last where applicable):

Notes

Some lines may appear to kink and bend or even turn back on themselves, even though their actual routes are quite direct. Such instances are merely topological quirks. Dotted lines ( (LSTR) or "interruption" icons) represent tracks outside the city boundary. Full details of such areas are not shown.

Certain simplifications have been made for reasons of space and ease of understanding:

• On this map, lines in blue represent 20th century narrow gauge features designed for leisure purposes. Leeds did have an extensive tram system till 1959. No attempt has been made to depict this or any more recent tram proposals.
• In this part of industrial Yorkshire there have been many mineral branches and industrial sidings. These are largely omitted.
• The most important modern location missing is the complex at
  Neville Hill depot
  between the Hunslet Goods junction and Osmondthorpe
• Certain stations shown as passenger stops were converted to handle goods only shortly after opening (Hunslet Lane, Rothwell, etc.).
• Some stations have had multiple names (e.g. Leeds New/City). Others have been resited during their history (Arthington, Hunslet), even if only one site is shown.
• Flying junctions at Farnley, Beeston and on HS2 at Methley are depicted as if they were flat.
• Sometimes flat crossings mean that a later line has crossed the alignment of an older one after it has become disused.
• Some areas, such as Hunslet Goods or Holbeck Junction, have been reconfigured multiple times over the years. Attempts have been made to reflect both old and new layouts, but some simplification may be inevitable.
• Proposed
  East Leeds Parkway would be next to the A639 Roman road between Castleford and Tadcaster. In 1834, the recently opened Leeds and Selby Railway
  advertised a Roman Road Halt, presumably on or near the same site.
• Apperley Bridge is in Bradford but its station used to be in Leeds. A new stop (open 2015) is on the Bradford side of the boundary. The proposed Horsforth Woodside is unrelated to the Victorian halt of that name, but only one site is shown
• The
  Hunslet Lane
  station.
• The Middleton river branch would have crossed over the route of the GNR Hunslet Branch as well as the Hallam/Pontefract line but was out of use before either of them were built.
• The Middleton Old Run is now marked by Moor Road and Old Run Road. The Balm Road branch crosses Moor Road by level crossing. The GNR Hunslet branch bridged Old Run Road after the Old Run itself had closed.
• Armley Mills Museum
  has both standard gauge and narrow gauge railway exhibits and a very short narrow gauge demonstration line.
• The
  Wharfedale Line
  enters Bradford district beyond High Royds.
• Many lines approach Leeds through tunnels. Bramhope Tunnel between Horsforth and Arthington runs beneath Bramhope village. Golden Acre Park lies to the south of Bramhope.
• Layouts at the Royal Ordnance Factories were more complex than shown. The four halts on the Thorp Arch circular railway were (clockwise from Thorp Arch station) Walton Platform, Roman Road Platform, Ranges Platform, and River Platform.
• The Idle line from Tyersal (the twin triangular junctions leading to Pudsey, Dudley Hill, Bradford and Shipley) to Shipley also crossed over the Leeds to Bradford line before leaving Leeds' boundaries.
• No firm details of the proposed airport link have been published to date (2015) so the route shown here is merely one possible option.
• HS2 remains in Leeds between Methley and Garforth but the link is indicated using arrows to save space. There are no intervening stations. Beyond Garforth HS2 will also cross the former route of the Aberford Railway.
• HS2 is to parallel the Hallam/Pontefract line between Woodlesford and Hunslet but there will not be a junction at either end as this diagram might imply.