Brockholes railway station

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 Trains.

Brockholes
Location
Place	Brockholes
Local authority	Kirklees
Coordinates	53.5970°N 1.7698°W / 53.5970; -1.7698
Grid reference	SE153111
Operations
Station code	BHS
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	57,720
2015/16	61,974
2016/17	60,082
2017/18	57,928
2018/19	56,236
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	West Yorkshire (Metro)
Zone	5
History
Key dates	Opened 1 July 1850[1] (1 July 1850[2])
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.

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. Goods traffic ceased to be handled at Brockholes in October 1964, with the station becoming an unstaffed halt in August 1966.[3]

The southbound platform went out of use when the Stocksmoor to Huddersfield section was singled in 1989. Only the northern end of the former Huddersfield-bound platform (which has been raised to modern standard height) is now used for rail services; the other end is disused and fenced off. The main buildings on the southbound side have been restored and converted into a private house, complete with heritage signage.[3]

Facilities

The station is unstaffed and has a basic shelter on its single active platform. A ticket machine was added in 2018, so tickets are now available to be bought at the station as well as on the train. Tickets can be bought in advance and collected from the station's machine. Timetable poster and a digital information screen are provided to offer train running information. Step-free access is via a ramp from the main entrance.[4]

Services

On Mondays to Saturdays, trains operate every hour in each direction, to Huddersfield and Sheffield via Barnsley.[5] The same frequency applies on Sundays also, but starting later in the morning.

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

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. Bairstow, Martin (1993). The Huddersfield & Sheffield Junction Railway. Martin Bairstow. ISBN 1-871944-08-2.
3. Disused Stations - Brockholes Disused Stations Site Record; Retrieved 16 January 2017
4. Brockholes station facilities National Rail Enquiries; Retrieved 16 January 2017
5. Table 34 National Rail timetable, December 2019

Image gallery

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  The station in 1961
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  The station in 2005
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  A train entering Thurstonland rail tunnel in the 1970s
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  The station in 2018
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  The sign at the entrance to the station in 2018

External links

Media related to Brockholes railway station at Wikimedia Commons