Saltaire railway station

Saltaire
Looking down the entrance ramp
Location
Place	Saltaire
Local authority	City of Bradford
Coordinates	53°50′19″N 1°47′25″W / 53.8385°N 1.7904°W / 53.8385; -1.7904Coordinates: 53°50′19″N 1°47′25″W / 53.8385°N 1.7904°W / 53.8385; -1.7904
Grid reference	SE138380
Operations
Station code	SAE
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*
2010/11	0.668 million
2011/12	0.686 million
2012/13	0.788 million
2013/14	0.808 million
2014/15	0.860 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	West Yorkshire (Metro)
Zone	3
History
Original company	Midland Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
May 1856	opened
20 March 1965	closed
9 April 1984	reopened
National Rail – UK railway stations

* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Saltaire from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Saltaire railway station serves the village of Saltaire near Shipley in West Yorkshire, England. It is situated 3 ¹⁄₂ miles (6 km) north of Bradford Forster Square.

History

The original station was opened in May 1856 by the Midland Railway, which had absorbed the Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway between Shipley and Colne in 1851. It closed on 20 March 1965 following the Beeching Axe, but West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive and British Rail reopened it on 9 April 1984.^[1] The current station has wooden platforms and waiting shelters (though these are stone-built rather than the metal and plexiglass designs used elsewhere). Its predecessor was of more substantial stone construction, with buildings on each platform; these were demolished in 1970, five years after the station closed.^[2]

The station is on the Airedale Line, between Bradford and Leeds, and Skipton. It is a busy commuter station both for passengers travelling to Leeds and Bradford and for staff in companies based in Salt's Mill, as well as serving tourists visiting the UNESCO World Heritage site at Saltaire.

The lower station of the Shipley Glen Tramway is about half a mile from Saltaire Station. The Leeds and Liverpool Canal, River Aire and Roberts Park, Saltaire are also close by.

Facilities

Though unstaffed, the station has ticket machines available. There is step-free access to both platforms via ramps from the street above.^[3] Train running information can be obtained via digital information screens, timetable posters and an automated P.A system.

Services

During Monday to Saturday daytime, there is a half-hourly service to both Leeds and Bradford Forster Square in one direction and four trains an hour towards Skipton. Evenings there is a half-hourly service to Leeds, an hourly service to Bradford Forster Square and three trains per hour to Skipton. The first departure from Leeds to Carlisle also calls here on weekdays, whilst on Saturdays it is the first train to Lancaster that stops.^[4]

On Sundays there is an hourly service to Leeds and a two-hourly service to Bradford Forster Square, with one or two trains per hour to Skipton. The first departures from Leeds to both Morecambe and Carlisle also call here.

Preceding station	National Rail		Following station
Shipley		Northern Airedale Line	Bingley
Shipley		Northern Settle-Carlisle Line	Bingley
	Historical railways
Shipley		Midland Railway Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway	Bingley

The view from platform 2.
Platform 2.
Two Class 333 trains cross at the station.

References

↑ Whitaker, Alan (1986). Bradford Railways Remembered. Clapham: Dalesman Books. p. 12. ISBN 0852068700.
↑ Saltaire Railway Station Saltaire Stories; Retrieved 29 November 2016
↑ Saltaire station facilities National Rail Enquiries; Retrieved 29 November 2016
↑ GB National Rail Timetable May 2016 Edition, Table 36

Bibliography

Bairstow, Martin. Railways Through Airedale & Wharfedale. ISBN 1-871944-28-7.
Chapman, Stephen. Railway Memories No. 7: Airedale & Wharfedale. Bellcode books. ISBN 1-871233-05-4.

External links

Train times and station information for Saltaire railway station from National Rail
Proposals to improve the station

Railway stations in West Yorkshire

Lists	List of busiest railway stations in West Yorkshire

MetroTrain lines	■ Airedale ■ Calder Valley ■ Dearne Valley ■ Hallam ■ Harrogate ■ Huddersfield ■ Leeds-Bradford ■ Penistone ■ Pontefract ■ Wakefield ■ Wharfedale

City of Bradford	Apperley Bridge Baildon Ben Rhydding Bingley Bradford Forster Square Bradford Interchange Burley-in-Wharfedale Crossflatts Frizinghall Ilkley Keighley Menston Saltaire Shipley Steeton and Silsden

Calderdale	Brighouse Halifax Hebden Bridge Mytholmroyd Sowerby Bridge Todmorden Walsden

Kirklees	Batley Berry Brow Brockholes Deighton Denby Dale Dewsbury Honley Huddersfield Lockwood Marsden Mirfield Ravensthorpe Shepley Slaithwaite Stocksmoor

City of Leeds	Bramley Burley Park Cottingley Cross Gates East Garforth Garforth Guiseley Headingley Horsforth Kirkstall Forge Leeds Micklefield Morley New Pudsey Woodlesford

City of Wakefield	Castleford Featherstone Fitzwilliam Glasshoughton Knottingley Moorthorpe Normanton Outwood Pontefract Baghill Pontefract Monkhill Pontefract Tanshelf Sandal and Agbrigg South Elmsall Streethouse Wakefield Kirkgate Wakefield Westgate

Outside West Yorkshire, but within the West Yorkshire Metro area	Cononley Darton Skipton

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