Batley railway station

Batley National Rail
The entrance
Location
Place Batley
Local authority Kirklees
Coordinates 53°42′36″N 1°37′23″W / 53.709910°N 1.623020°W / 53.709910; -1.623020Coordinates: 53°42′36″N 1°37′23″W / 53.709910°N 1.623020°W / 53.709910; -1.623020
Grid reference SE249237
Operations
Station code BTL
Managed by Northern
Number of platforms 2
DfT category F1
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2012/13 Decrease 0.264 million
2013/14 Increase 0.296 million
2014/15 Increase 0.315 million
2015/16 Increase 0.331 million
2016/17 Increase 0.351 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE West Yorkshire Metro
Zone 2
History
Key dates Opened 1848 (1848)
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Batley from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
UK Railways portal
The station in 1961

Batley railway station serves the town of Batley in West Yorkshire, England. Situated 8 miles (13 km) south west of Leeds on the main line to Huddersfield and Manchester, the station was opened by the London and North Western Railway in 1848.

The station is now managed by Northern, although all services, except one early morning service from Leeds to Wigan Wallgate via Manchester Victoria, are currently provided by TransPennine Express.

Facilities

Batley railway station is unstaffed, though the main buildings on the eastbound platform (1) still stand and are used as a waiting area and entrance; a self-service ticket machine is also located there. There is a shelter on Platform 2 and both have digital display screens and timetable posters for train running information provision. Only Platform 1 has step-free access, as the subway to Platform 2 has stairways.[1]

Services

Batley is served by two trains per hour to Leeds, one of which continues to Hull, and two trains per hour to Huddersfield and Manchester Piccadilly.

The trains terminating at Leeds also stop at Morley, whilst the trains continuing to Hull are semi-fast services.[2]

On Sundays, there is an hourly service to Leeds, Huddersfield and Manchester Piccadilly.

History

The station was at one time rather larger than it is today, as it was also served by the Great Northern Railway branch line from Bradford to Wakefield via Dewsbury Central from December 1864 to 7 September 1964, when it fell victim to the Beeching Axe.[3] It was also the junction for branch lines to Birstall (opened in 1852, closed to passengers as a wartime economy measure in 1917 and to all traffic in 1963) and to Tingley and Beeston (opened in 1890, closed in 1951).[4][5] The station was significantly enlarged (with the addition of three extra platforms) on the opening of the latter route in August 1890, but reverted to the present twin-platform configuration after the closure & abandonment of the Bradford - Wakefield line in 1964/5.

Few traces of any of these routes remain today, but the abutments of the former bridge that took the Bradford line across the line from Leeds near Batley signal box (east of the station) can still be seen.

Notes

  1. ↑ Batley station facilities National Rail Enquiries; Retrieved 16 January 2017
  2. ↑ Table 39 National Rail timetable, May 2018
  3. ↑ Railway Ramblers - Kirklees Accessed 11 April 2008
  4. ↑ "Tracking down history of local railways" Batley & Birstall News article 29 November 2007; Retrieved 8 January 2016
  5. ↑ Batley to Beeston 1890-1951Lost Railways West Yorkshire; Retrieved 8 January 2016
Preceding station   National Rail   Following station
Dewsbury   TransPennine Express
North TransPennine (Manchester - Leeds)		   Morley
  TransPennine Express
North TransPennine (Manchester - Hull)		   Leeds

Railways in North Kirklees
Past, present and future
Great Northern Railway
to Bradford
Leeds New Line
to Leeds
Howden Clough
Upper Batley
to Leeds
Birstall Town
Lower Birstall
Carlinghow
to Leeds
Gomersal
Chickenley Heath
to Wakefield
 Batley
Lancashire & Yorkshire Rly
to Bradford
Cleckheaton Central
Cleckheaton Spen
Liversedge Central
Liversedge Spen
Batley Carr
Staincliffe and Batley Carr
Heckmondwike Central
Heckmondwike Spen
Dewsbury Wellington Road
Dewsbury Central
Dewsbury Market Place
Northorpe North Road
Earlsheaton
Northorpe Higher
to Wakefield
Ravensthorpe Lower
Dewsbury Goods
(NMR)
Ravensthorpe
Huddersfield Line
to Wakefield
Battyeford
Leeds New Line
to Huddersfield
Thornhill
Mirfield
North Midland Railway
to Royston and Notton
Huddersfield Line
to Huddersfield


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