Trains to Batley - Station Details and further Information on Batley Train Services
Batley train station serves the town of Batley in West Yorkshire, England. The station opened in 1848. The station is 8 miles to the south west of Leeds. Trains from Batley go towards either Leeds northbound or Huddersfield/Hebden Bridge southbound on the Huddersfield Line operated by Northern Rail.
On Mondays to Saturdays daytimes, there is typically an half-hourly service from Batley to Leeds and to Dewsbury. The latter continues to either Huddersfield or Manchester Victoria via Brighouse and Todmorden. Additional services run during peak times.
Evenings there is an hourly service northbound to Leeds and southbound to Huddersfield. Sundays there is a two-hourly service in each direction.
The station was at one time rather larger than it is today, as it was also served by the Great Northern Railway branch line from Bradford to Wakefield via Dewsbury Central from August 1864 until 7 September 1964, when it fell victim to the Beeching Axe. It was also the junction for branch lines to Birstall (opened in 1852 and closed to passengers as a wartime economy measure in 1917) and Tingley (closed in 1951). Few traces of any of these routes remain today, although the abutments of the former bridge that took the Bradford line across the line from Leeds near Batley signal box (east of the station) can still be seen. |
