Frizinghall railway station
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Frizinghall railway station is situated in the Frizinghall district of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. It is an unstaffed halt on the Airedale Line, Script error: No such module "convert". north of Template:Rws. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by Northern Trains.
History
Frizinghall station was opened by the Midland Railway on 1 February 1875.[1] It remained in operation until it was closed on 22 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]
Stationmasters
- Joseph Mawby 1876[4] - 1891[5]
- J.W. Smales 1891[5] - 1926[6]
- Robert Little 1926 - 1933[7] (also station master at Manningham, afterwards station master at Tutbury)
- Thomas Hagley 1933 - 1939[8] (formerly station master at Menston, also station master at Manningham)
- John Fell 1939 - 1945
- F.W. Garnett 1945[9] - (also station master at Manningham)
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.[10]
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 to Leeds and hourly to Skipton and Ilkley.
During the evenings, there are trains every hour to/from each of Skipton and Ilkley plus an hourly service between Forster Square and Template:Rws. At these times there are no trains to Leeds, though connections are available at Shipley into/out of the Skipton - Leeds service.[11]
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.
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References
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- ↑ Frizinghall station facilities National Rail Enquiries; Retrieved 5 December 2016
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- Whitaker, Alan & Myland, Brian, 1993 Railway Memories No 4: Bradford. Bellcode Books Template:ISBN
- Bairstow, Martin, 2004 Railways Through Airedale & Wharfedale Template:ISBN
External links
- Train times and station information for Frizinghall railway station from National Rail
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- Railway stations in Bradford
- DfT Category F1 stations
- Former Midland Railway stations
- Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1875
- Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1965
- Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1987
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