Trains to Halifax - Station Details and further Information on Halifax Train Services
Halifax train station serves the town of Halifax in West Yorkshire, England. It lies on the Caldervale Line 17 miles west from Leeds. The station is served by Northern Rail and Grand Northern.
The station at Halifax is an example of a single island platform acting as two platforms - Platform 2 heads eastbound, towards Bradford and Platform 1 heads westbound towards Brighouse & Huddersfield and Sowerby Bridge and Manchester Victoria, the two routes dividing some 200 yards south of the station at Dryclough Junction.
To the east the line also divided, with the current line passing into Beacon Hill tunnel and a disused line going via Halifax North Bridge to Ovenden and then both to the Halifax High level line which had stations in Pellon and at St Paul's, Queens Road; and via Queensbury to Bradford and Keighley, for destinations in the North-West.
Eastbound: Monday to Saturdays there is a train every 15 minutes heading to Bradford Interchange and Leeds with two trains per hour going beyond Leeds to York and Selby respectively. During the evenings and on Sundays it is half-hourly to Leeds and hourly to York.
Westbound: Monday to Saturday daytimes there is a half-hourly service to Manchester Victoria (hourly evenings), one train an hour to Blackpool North and one per hour to Wakefield Westgate via Huddersfield and Brighouse. One of the two Manchester trains is semi-fast (calling only at Hebden Bridge, Todmorden & Rochdale), whilst the other calls at all intermediate stations to Rochdale.
On Sundays there is an hourly service to Manchester Victoria and to Blackpool North and one train every two hours to Huddersfield.
London Services: Grand Northern have now got full approval for their new service to London Kings Cross and Bradford Interchange. Three trains per day will operate in each direction. |