Place Hebden Bridge Station code HBD DfT category E Number of platforms 2 | Grid reference SD994268 Managed by Northern 2011/12 0.762 million | |
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Address Hebden Bridge HX7 6JE, United Kingdom Original company Manchester and Leeds Railway Pte West Yorkshire Metro (Metro) Similar Sowerby Bridge railway st, Walsden railway station, Micklefield railway station, Cross Gates railway st, East Garforth railway st | ||
Hebden bridge railway station west yorkshire uk 6th march 2013
Hebden Bridge railway station serves the town of Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire, England. The station is on the Calder Valley Line, currently operated by Northern from York and Leeds towards Manchester Victoria and Blackpool North. The station is 8.5 miles (14 km) west of Halifax and 26 miles (42 km) west of Leeds.
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Hebden bridge railway station staff 1972
History
The Manchester and Leeds Railway, authorised in 1836 for a line from Manchester to Normanton, was opened in stages; the second section, between Normanton and Hebden Bridge, opened on 5 October 1840. Trains arrived at Hebden Bridge from Normanton and passengers would then continue to Littleborough by road. The section between Hebden Bridge and Summit Tunnel opened on 31 December 1840, allowing trains to reach Todmorden; after Summit Tunnel opened on 1 March 1841, trains continued to Littleborough and Manchester. An 1841 timetable shows five Manchester to Leeds trains per day calling at Hebden Bridge (two on Sundays), all but one of which called at all stations; a similar service ran in the opposite direction. Trains began operating to Halifax and Bradford in 1852, and could run through to Leeds via this route from 1854.
The current buildings date from 1893, construction having started in 1891. By this point there was a goods yard alongside the station. This closed in 1966 and the site is now the station car park. In 1997 the station was renovated, and signage in the original Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway style was installed.
Facilities
The station has a staffed ticket office, waiting rooms, toilets and a cafe. Platform 2, towards Leeds, is accessible to those with disabilities but platform 1 is not; the lifts serving the subway were closed in the 1980s and funding for their re-instatement has not been made available via the Department for Transport's Access for All scheme. Information screens were installed in 2012 as part of a programme to provide screens at 18 stations on the Calder Valley Lline and elsewhere in West Yorkshire. Previously, passengers had to rely on automated public-address system announcements.
Services
The station is the only station on the Calder Valley Line where every service calls. On Monday to Saturday during daytime there are four trains per hour to Leeds - one via Brighouse and Dewsbury (calling at all stations except Ravensthorpe), the other three via Bradford Interchange (one serving all stations to Bradford and two calling at Halifax only). Of the latter, one continues to York (this is the service from Blackpool North via Preston). In the late evening, the service drops to hourly, with one or two extras, all via Bradford.
Westbound there are three trains per hour to Manchester Victoria (hourly evenings and Sundays), and an hourly service to Blackpool North via Burnley, Blackburn and Preston (two-hourly evenings, hourly on Sundays). One of the Manchester trains is a limited-stop service, calling at Todmorden and Rochdale only.
From November 2013 to late March 2014 the line to Burnley was closed for major repair work on Holme Tunnel. A replacement bus service ran, and trains from York terminated/started at Hebden Bridge.