Frizinghall railway station

Frizinghall railway station is situated in the Frizinghall district of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. The station, an unstaffed halt 2 miles (3 km) north of Bradford Forster Square is on the Airedale Line, and all trains serving it are operated by Northern Trains.

Frizinghall
Platform 2
Location
Place	Frizinghall
Local authority	City of Bradford
Coordinates	53.8200°N 1.7686°W / 53.8200; -1.7686
Grid reference	SE153359
Operations
Station code	FZH
Managed by	Northern Trains
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	0.414 million
2015/16	0.377 million
2016/17	0.441 million
2017/18	0.431 million
2018/19	0.440 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	West Yorkshire (Metro)
Zone	3
History
Original company	Midland Railway
Pre-grouping	Midland Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
1 February 1875 (1875-02-01)	Station opened
22 March 1965	Closed
7 September 1987	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 Frizinghall from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

History

Frizinghall station was opened by the Midland Railway on 1 February 1875.[1] It remained in operation until it was closed on 20 March 1965, a casualty of the Beeching Axe. However, the line on which it stood remained open, and 22 years later, the West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive and British Rail reopened the station.

The original station had two platforms opposite each other on the north side of Frizinghall Road, but the current station, opened on 7 September 1987, has its two platforms separated: the northbound platform is approximately where it was before, and the southbound is to the south of Frizinghall Road.

Bradford Grammar School was relocated to Frizinghall in the late 1940s. From then until closure, and again after reopening, pupils have constituted one of the main sources of traffic at the station. Indeed, it was an English teacher at Bradford Grammar School, Dr Robin Sisson, who actively fought for the Frizinghall station to reopen. Sisson was killed in a car accident in Sheffield on 24 June 2008.[2]

Frizinghall signal box, which was removed in 1971, is preserved in working order at Damems Junction, on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway.[3]

Facilities

The station is not staffed, but ticket machines are provided. There are shelters on both platforms, along with digital information screens; a long-line P.A system also provides train running information. Step-free access to each platform is via ramps from the road bridge.[4]

Services

Frizinghall is served by trains from Bradford Forster Square towards Leeds (on the Leeds-Bradford Line), Skipton (on the Airedale Line) and Ilkley (on the Wharfedale Line). Monday to Saturday daytimes, trains operate every 30 minutes each way on each route. During the evenings, there are trains every hour to/from each of Skipton and Ilkley plus an hourly service between Forster Square and Shipley. At these times there are no trains to Leeds, though connections are available at Shipley into/out of the Skipton - Leeds service.[5]

On Sundays, trains run twice each hour to Bradford, every hour to Leeds (until end of service) and hourly to each of Ilkley and Skipton.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Bradford Forster Square		Northern Trains Leeds-Bradford Line		Shipley
		Northern Trains Airedale Line
		Northern Trains Wharfedale Line
	Historical railways
Manningham Line open, station closed		Midland Railway Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway		Shipley Line and station open
		Midland Railway Leeds and Bradford Railway

References

1. "On this day". Bradford Telegraph and Argus. 1 February 2003. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
2. Tributes to rail expert Robin, 50
3. Bairstow, Martin (2004). Railways through Airedale & Wharfedale. Farsley: Martin Bairstow. p. i. ISBN 1-871944-28-7.
4. Frizinghall station facilities National Rail Enquiries; Retrieved 5 December 2016
5. Table 36, 37 & 38 National Rail timetable, December 2017

• Whitaker, Alan & Myland, Brian, 1993 Railway Memories No 4: Bradford. Bellcode Books ISBN 1-871233-03-8
• Bairstow, Martin, 2004 Railways Through Airedale & Wharfedale ISBN 1-871944-28-7

External links

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