Cononley railway station

Cononley railway station serves the village of Cononley in North Yorkshire, England. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by Northern.

Cononley
Location
Place	Cononley
Local authority	Craven
Coordinates	53.9173°N 2.0119°W / 53.9173; -2.0119
Grid reference	SD993467
Operations
Station code	CEY
Managed by	Northern
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	F1
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15	0.186 million
2015/16	0.166 million
2016/17	0.178 million
2017/18	0.197 million
2018/19	0.189 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	West Yorkshire (Metro)
Zone	7
History
1847	Opened
22 March 1965	Closed
20 April 1988	Reopened
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Cononley from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

It was originally opened in late 1847, at a cost of £900, by the Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway.[1] It was closed on 22 March 1965,[2] though its platforms remained intact and the main buildings survived until the mid-1970s.[3]

It was reopened by British Rail on 20 April 1988 [4] at a cost of £34,000, which was borne by the county, district and local parish councils and the Rural Development Commission.

The station has two platforms and is right beside Cononley's main street. Step-free access is available to both platforms, via the level crossing at the Skipton end of the station. It is unstaffed but has now been fitted with ticket machines (one on the southbound platform and the other on the northbound side adjacent to the exit) to allow passengers to buy before travelling.[5] An automated Tannoy system and digital information screens provide train running information to passengers.

Services

During Monday to Saturday daytime, there is a half-hourly service from Skipton to both Leeds and Bradford Forster Square and four trains an hour towards Skipton. In the evenings there is a half-hourly service to Leeds, an hourly service to Bradford Forster Square and three trains per hour to Skipton.[6]

On Sundays is an hourly service to Leeds and Bradford with two trains per hour to Skipton.

These services are normally provided by Class 333 or Class 322 EMUs, with new CAF Class 331 sets also now starting to appear on certain workings.

Services towards Morecambe and Carlisle normally pass through without stopping, but the first morning service to Carlisle and the last evening train from Ribblehead to Leeds each serve the station. One train to both Morecambe and Carlisle stop here on Sunday mornings.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Steeton and Silsden		Northern Airedale Line		Skipton
Steeton and Silsden		Northern Leeds-Morecambe Line		Skipton
Steeton and Silsden		Northern Settle-Carlisle Line		Skipton
	Historical railways
Kildwick and Crosshills Station closed; Line open		Midland Railway Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway		Skipton

Notes

1. Binns, p. 8
2. Binns, p. 23
3. Shipley to Skipton - Cononley (1975) Lost Railways - West Yorkshire; Retrieved 1 December 2016
4. Petersfield, David (1995). "Cononley". Railscot.
5. Cononley station facilities National Rail Enquiries; Retrieved 29 November 2016
6. GB National Rail Timetable December 2019 Edition, Table 36 (Network Rail)

References

• Binns, D. (1984), Steam in Airedale, Wyvern Publications, Skipton, ISBN 0-907941-11-7

External links

• Train times and station information for Cononley railway station from National Rail