Walsden railway station
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Location | |
Place | Walsden, Todmorden |
Local authority | Calderdale |
Coordinates | 53°41′47″N 2°06′17″W / 53.696340°N 2.104670°WCoordinates: 53°41′47″N 2°06′17″W / 53.696340°N 2.104670°W |
Grid reference | SD931222 |
Operations | |
Station code | WDN |
Managed by | Northern |
Number of platforms | 2 |
DfT category | F2 |
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries | |
Annual rail passenger usage* | |
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Passenger Transport Executive | |
PTE | West Yorkshire (Metro) |
Zone | 5 |
History | |
Key dates | Opened 1990 |
National Rail – UK railway stations | |
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Walsden from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Walsden railway station serves the village of Walsden, Todmorden in West Yorkshire, England, on the edge of the Pennines.
It is served by the Caldervale Line operated by Northern. The station is 32 miles (51 km) west of Leeds and 17.25 miles (28 km) north east of Manchester Victoria. Walsden is the last station before the boundary with Greater Manchester. The station was opened by Metro (West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive) on 10 September 1990 as a replacement for an earlier structure that closed on 6 August 1961. This earlier station, which was opened in 1845 by the Manchester & Leeds Railway, predecessor of the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, was situated between the level crossing and the north portal of Winterbutlee Tunnel, a few yards south of the present station.[1][2]
Services
There is an hourly service (Mondays to Fridays) to Manchester Victoria, Wigan Wallgate and Southport southbound and to Leeds via Dewsbury northbound (since the May 2014 timetable change) with extra trains during peak times in each direction (including some trains to Burnley and Blackburn). Passengers wishing to access destinations on the route via Halifax during the day now have to change at Todmorden or Hebden Bridge.
In the evenings and on Sundays, the frequency remains hourly but trains run via Halifax.[3]
History
It was the only place in Todmorden to be bombed during the Second World War Blitz, probably because the German plane had a leftover bomb after a raid and so dropped it on what appeared to be an important site.
The station has had problems with flooding for many years, with the most recent bout occurring on 26 December 2015.[4] The line was blocked the following day, but reopened to traffic on 28 December.
References
- ↑ Bairstow, M. (1983), The Manchester & Leeds Railway (The Calder Valley Line), Wyvern Publishing, Skipton, ISBN 0-907941-06-0, p. 72
- ↑ Joy, D. (1975), A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain, Volume 8, David & Charles, Newton Abbot, ISBN 0-7153-6883-4
- ↑ Table 41 National Rail timetable, May 2018
- ↑ East Lancs passengers asked to check before they travelNetwork Rail Media Centre
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Walsden railway station. |
- Train times and station information for Walsden railway station from National Rail
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