Berry Brow railway station

Berry Brow railway station serves the Huddersfield suburban villages of Berry Brow, Taylor Hill, Armitage Bridge and Newsome in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire.

Berry Brow
Location
Place	Berry Brow
Local authority	Kirklees
Coordinates	53.6210°N 1.7935°W / 53.6210; -1.7935
Grid reference	SE137138
Operations
Station code	BBW
Managed by	Northern Trains
Number of platforms	1
DfT category	F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15	31,056
2015/16	32,906
2016/17	30,316
2017/18	29,466
2018/19	26,066
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	West Yorkshire (Metro)
Zone	5
History
Key dates	Opened 9 October 1989[1] (9 October 1989[1])
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Berry Brow from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

The present single-platform station was opened by British Rail in 1989. It lies some 2.25 miles (3.6 km) south of Huddersfield railway station on the Penistone Line between Huddersfield and Sheffield and is managed by Northern Trains.

The original Berry Brow station was 330 yards (300 m) from the present location, in the direction of Huddersfield. It opened on 1 July 1850 and closed on 2 July 1966.[1]

The original station in 1961

Facilities

The station is unstaffed and has a basic shelter on its single platform; all tickets must be bought on the train or in advance, as there is no ticket machine. Timetable posters and a digital display screen provide train running information. Step-free access is via a steep ramp from the main road above.[2]

Services

All services to the station are operated by Northern Trains. There is an hourly service in both directions on Monday to Saturdays, and on Sundays from mid-morning.[3]

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Honley		Northern Trains Penistone Line		Lockwood

Kirklees South Lines
To Heckmondwike To Dewsbury and Wakefield To Calderdale Cooper Bridge Bradley Deighton (1982– ) 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

References

1. Bairstow, Martin (1993). The Huddersfield & Sheffield Junction Railway. Martin Bairstow. ISBN 1-871944-08-2.
2. Berry Brow station facilities National Rail Enquiries; Retrieved 16 January 2017
3. Table 34 National Rail timetable, December 2019