Place Settle Station code HIR DfT category F2 Number of platforms 2 | Grid reference SD803726 Managed by Northern 2011/12 19,008 | |
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Address Settle BD24 0HL, United Kingdom Similar Giggleswick railway station, Bentham railway station, Gargrave railway station, Long Preston railway st, Settle railway station | ||
Trains at horton in ribblesdale railway station
Horton-in-Ribblesdale railway station is a small station in Horton in Ribblesdale, North Yorkshire, England on the Settle-Carlisle Line 47 1⁄4 miles (76 km) northwest of Leeds.
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History
The station was completed by the Midland Railway in 1876 and was opened for the use of passengers on 1 May. It was initially named Horton. The London Midland and Scottish Railway absorbed the Midland Railway on 1 January 1923 and renamed the station as Horton-in-Ribblesdale on 26 September 1927.
The station buildings were designed by the Midland Railway company architect John Holloway Sanders.
The station is currently (2016) served and managed by Northern as are all the trains calling at the station. It is unstaffed, with no ticket vending facilities (so tickets can only be purchased in advance or on the train). The station waiting room is open for public use, having been restored by the Settle & Carlisle Railway Trust in 2002 as part of a wider refurbishment of the main buildings on the eastern side (other parts of the building are rented out for commercial use).
It is located near to Pen-y-ghent, one of the mountains known collectively as the Yorkshire Three Peaks. The station and the village of Horton-in-Ribblesdale is located 850 feet above sea level, per the decorative station information board, and is approximately 6 miles (10 km) north of Settle.
In the 1950s and 1960s under stationmaster Taylor, Horton won the Best Kept Station award for seventeen consecutive years. The station lost its passenger service on 4 May 1970, but reopened in July 1986, along with several other local stations on the line under British Rail.
Facilities
The platforms are linked by a barrow crossing and are both lower than standard (though the southbound one has been partially raised to improve access to trains); there is no step-free access. Train running information is available via telephone and timetable posters.
Service
It gets about one train every two hours in each direction—one to Leeds (seven in total) and one to Carlisle (five, plus one evening train that terminates at Ribblehead). The total is slightly imbalanced as certain services do not stop here. There is an extra train in both directions on Saturdays, whilst there are three trains a day to both Leeds and Carlisle on Sundays. Dalesrail trains between Blackpool/Preston and Carlisle (one each way) also serve the station during the summer months. Northbound services are terminating short at Armathwaite (with replacement buses from there to Carlisle) until the end of March 2017 due to ongoing repair work to a major landslip at Eden Brows (near Cotehill).