Brockholes railway station

Brockholes
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Location
Place	Brockholes
Local authority	Kirklees
Coordinates
Grid reference	SE153111
Operations
Station code	BHS
Managed by	Northern Rail
Number of platforms	1
DfT category	F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	31,896
2005/06	32,943
2006/07	34,493
2007/08	37,414
2008/09	51,028
2009/10	49,622
2010/11	54,018
2011/12	54,136
2012/13	49,460
2013/14	59,260
2014/15	57,720
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	West Yorkshire (Metro)
Zone	5
History
Key dates	Opened 1 July 1850 (1 July 1850)
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Brockholes from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
UK Railways portal

Brockholes railway station serves the village of Brockholes, near Huddersfield in West Yorkshire. It lies 4.25 miles (7 km) away from Huddersfield on the Penistone Line operated by Northern Rail.

Trains passing between Brockholes and Shepley pass through a 1-mile (1.6 km) tunnel under Thurstonland.

Opened in July 1850 by the Huddersfield & Sheffield Junction Railway (a satellite company of the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway), the station was formerly the junction for the Holmfirth Branch Line, which opened on the same day as the main line but closed to passenger trains on 2 November 1959 and to goods traffic in May 1965. Only the former northbound platform is now used, the other (on which the now privately owned main buildings still stand) having gone out of use when the Stocksmoor to Huddersfield section was singled in 1989.

Services

On Mondays to Saturdays, trains operate every hour in each direction, to Huddersfield and Sheffield. Trains operate every two hours each way on Sundays.

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Stocksmoor		Northern Rail Penistone Line		Honley
Disused railways
Terminus		L&YR Holmfirth Branch Line		Thongsbridge

Kirklees South Lines

Legend To Heckmondwike To Dewsbury and Wakefield To Calderdale Cooper Bridge Bradley Deighton1982 station Deighton 1871–1930 Kirkheaton Newtown goods Huddersfield Fenay Bridge and Lepton Longwood and Milnsbridge Lockwood Golcar Kirkburton Netherton Berry Brow Slaithwaite Healey House Meltham Honley Marsden Brockholes To Saddleworth Thongsbridge Stocksmoor Holmfirth Shepley Denby Dale Shelley To Penistone Skelmanthorpe Cuckoos Nest Clayton West

Image gallery

• Brockholes rail station 1915818 ab3ee450.jpg

  The station in 1961

• Brockholes Station, Honley - geograph.org.uk - 85970.jpg

  The station in 2005

• Brockholes to Thurstonland Rail Tunnel.jpg

  A train entering Thurstonland rail tunnel in the 1970s, when two tracks existed

External links

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