Baildon railway station

Baildon railway station serves the town of Baildon near Shipley in West Yorkshire, England. The station reopened under British Rail on 5 January 1973, by the Chairman of Baildon Council - Arnold Lightowler, having been closed for exactly 20 years, and is 4 miles (6 km) north of Bradford Forster Square on the Wharfedale Line. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by Northern Trains.

Baildon
The view from the platform
Location
PlaceBaildon
Local authorityCity of Bradford
Coordinates53.850°N 1.754°W / 53.850; -1.754
Grid referenceSE162393
Operations
Station codeBLD
Managed byNorthern Trains
Number of platforms1
DfT categoryF1
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 0.251 million
2015/16 0.277 million
2016/17 0.290 million
2017/18 0.286 million
2018/19 0.297 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTEWest Yorkshire Metro
Zone3
History
4 December 1876Opened
5 January 1953Closed
28 January 1957Reopened
29 April 1957Closed
5 January 1973Reopened
National Rail – UK railway stations
  • Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Baildon from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
View towards Shipley and Bradford in 1961

History

Opened by the Midland Railway in December 1876,[1] the station became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923, and then passed to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. It was then closed by the British Transport Commission as an economy measure in January 1953 (though it briefly reopened for 3 months in 1957). Goods traffic at the station ceased in April 1964.[2]

Services

During Monday to Saturday daytimes, there is a half-hourly service to Bradford Forster Square and Ilkley. During Monday to Saturday evenings and all day Sunday, it is hourly in each direction.[3]

Unlike other stations on the Wharfedale and Airedale lines, Baildon has no direct service to Leeds owing to its position on the curve between the two lines. Passengers must instead change at Shipley or Guiseley (Shipley having more services) to access Leeds.

The site today

The line has been reduced to single track, so there is only one platform, and the station building has been sold. The second platform is disused and covered in weeds.

The station is unstaffed, but a ticket machine is now available. Tickets must be purchased from the machine or on the train with a Promise To Pay Notice from the same machine. A long-line PA system and digital display screens provide train running information. Step-free access is provided from the car park and main entrance to the platform.[4]

Notes
  1. "Bradford Timeline 1875-99" Retrieved 3 June 2016
  2. "The SLS/MLS 'West Riding Rail Tour"Manchester Locomotive Society; Retrieved 3 June 2016
  3. Table 38 National Rail timetable, December 2019
  4. Baildon station facilities National Rail Enquiries; Retrieved 5 December 2016

References
  • Railways Through Airedale & Wharfedale Martin Bairstow (2004) ISBN 1-871944-28-7
  • Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
  • Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
  • Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
Preceding station   National Rail   Following station
Northern Trains
Wharfedale Line
Disused railways
Shipley
Line and station open		   Midland Railway
Wharfedale Line		   Esholt
Line open, station closed


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