Huddersfield railway station

Huddersfield
Huddersfield railway station in St. Georges Square
Location
Place	Huddersfield
Local authority	Kirklees
Coordinates	53°38′53″N 1°47′06″W / 53.648°N 1.785°W / 53.648; -1.785Coordinates: 53°38′53″N 1°47′06″W / 53.648°N 1.785°W / 53.648; -1.785
Grid reference	SE143168
Operations
Station code	HUD
Managed by	First TransPennine Express
Platforms in use	6
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail
Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 *	2.214 million
2005/06 *	2.386 million
2006/07 *	2.511 million
2007/08 *	2.672 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	West Yorkshire (Metro)
Zone	5
History
Opened 3 August 1847[1] (3 August 1847[1])
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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Huddersfield from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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Huddersfield railway station serves the town of Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, England.

The station is managed by First TransPennine Express who provide trains between the North East, North and East Yorkshire, and Leeds to the east and Manchester Piccadilly and North West.

It is also served by local Northern Rail trains on the Huddersfield Line, between Leeds/Wakefield Westgate and Manchester Victoria.

Additionally the Penistone Line to Sheffield (where the Midland Main Line is reached for services to Leicester and London) and more recently the Caldervale Line for trains towards Halifax and Bradford Interchange.

The station building

Designed by the architect James Pigott Pritchett and built by the firm of Joseph Kaye in 1846–7^[2] using the neo-classical style, the station is well known in architectural circles for its classical style facade with a portico of the Corinthian order, consisting of six columns in width and two in depth, which dominates St George's Square, where it is located, facing out towards Lion Buildings. The poet John Betjeman described the imposing station frontage as the most splendid in England.

Within the station frontage, to each side of the main entrance, there are two public houses, The Head Of Steam and The King's Head (previously known as The Station Tavern);^[3] both facilities are accessible from platform 1.

At the building's entrance the booking office is to the left and to the right there are the train timetables, a newsagent that sells chilled drinks and sandwiches and the subway to platforms 4–8. The public conveniences are located through this subway at the top of the steps to platforms 4–8.

Diagram of Huddersfield Railway Station

There are six platforms:

• Platform 1 — Express services to Manchester Piccadilly, Manchester Airport and Liverpool.
• Platform 2 — Terminus platform for Penistone Line services to/from Sheffield.
• Platform 4 — Stopping services to Leeds (4a) and Manchester Victoria (4b). (One evening train from Hull terminates at platform 4a.)
• Platforms 5 and 6 — Terminus platforms for local services to/from Leeds (via the Caldervale Line) and Wakefield Westgate.
• Platform 8 — Express services to Leeds, Hull, York, Scarborough, Middlesbrough and Newcastle.

Huddersfield Railway Station from platform 2

Services

v • d • e Kirklees South Lines

Legend To Heckmondwike To Dewsbury and Wakefield To Calderdale Cooper Bridge Bradley Deighton 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

During Monday to Friday daytimes, TransPennine Express operate hourly services to Newcastle (Journey time approx. 2 hours 10 mins), Hull (Approx. 1 hour 20 mins), Scarborough (Approx. 1 hour 45 mins) and Middlesbrough(Approx. 2 hours 20 mins). All of which call at Leeds (Approx. 20 mins) which creates a fast service every 15 minutes. These are supplemented by stopping MetroTrain services. There are four trains per hour to Manchester Piccadilly (Approx. 35 mins) and two continue to Manchester Airport (Approx. 15 mins from Manchester Piccadilly) and another continues to Liverpool (Approx. 50 mins from Manchester Piccadilly).

Northern Rail operates hourly services to Sheffield (Approx. 1 hour 20 mins), Manchester Victoria (Approx. 50 mins), Wakefield Westgate (Approx 35 mins), Selby via Bradford Interchange (Approx. 1 hour 40 mins) and Leeds (Approx. 40 mins).

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