| Pannal | |
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| Location | |
| Place | Pannal |
| Local authority | Harrogate |
| Coordinates | 53°57′30″N 1°31′58″W / 53.958450°N 1.532740°WCoordinates: 53°57′30″N 1°31′58″W / 53.958450°N 1.532740°W |
| Grid reference | SE307514 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | PNL |
| Managed by | Northern Rail |
| Platforms in use | 2 |
| Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail |
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| Annual rail passenger usage | |
| 2004/05 * | 94,500 |
| 2005/06 * | 93,800 |
| 2006/07 * | 94,396 |
| 2007/08 * | 98,041 |
| History | |
| Opened 1849 | |
| National Rail - UK railway stations | |
| A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z | |
| * Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Pannal from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. | |
Pannal railway station serves the village of Pannal, including Burn Bridge, in North Yorkshire, England. It is located on the Harrogate Line 15 miles (24 km) north of Leeds City Station and operated by Northern Rail who provide all passenger train services. It was built by the Leeds & Thirsk Railway and opened in 1849, although the current route to Harrogate via Crimple viaduct wasn't opened until 1862 (the original L&T route took an easier course to the east of the town).
It is a busy station considering the size of the village it serves. This is due to the large number of commuters using the station for journeying into Leeds every weekday before 9.00am.[1]
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Services
During Monday to Saturday daytimes, there is generally a half-hourly service from Pannal southbound to Leeds and a half-hourly service northbound to Knaresborough with one train per hour onwards to York.
Evenings and Sundays there is generally an hourly service in each direction.
Birdwatching at the station
The summer image to the right shows the station before the big trees at the Dunlopillow factory (on the left in that image) were pruned back to the trunks.[2] At that time, in early mornings in spring, you could watch buzzards trying to rob the rooks' nests in those trees. Since the trees were pruned (on the left in the snowy image) the buzzards have stopped coming, but in spring you can still watch jackdaws attempting to nest in the chimneys of the Harwood pub. During summer, swifts frequently scream over the station, and goldfinches graze on the weed-seeds between the station and Dunlopillow car-park.
References
- ^ Harrogate Advertiser: Rail misery for commuters, 22 February 2008.
- ^ The image is incorrectly dated on its filepage: the picture was taken before 2005.
External links
- Train times and station information for Pannal railway station from National Rail
| Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
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| Weeton | Northern Rail Harrogate Line |
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