Brockholes railway station

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Brockholes
Location
Place	Brockholes
Local authority	Kirklees
Operations
Station code	BHS
Managed by	Northern Rail
Platforms in use	1
Live departures and station information from National Rail
Annual Rail Passenger Usage
2004/05 *	31,896
2005/06 *	32,943
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	West Yorkshire (Metro)
Zone	5
History
Key dates	Opened 1 July 1850[1]
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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Brockholes from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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Brockholes railway station serves the village of Brockholes, near Huddersfield in West Yorkshire. It lies 4¼ miles (7 km) away from Huddersfield on the Penistone Line operated by Northern Rail.

Trains passing between Brockholes and Shepley pass through a 1 mile tunnel under Thurstonland.

[edit] Services

On Mondays to Saturdays, trains operate every hour in each direction, to Huddersfield and Sheffield. Trains operate every two hours on Sundays.

Railways in South Kirklees

Legend To Heckmondwike To Dewsbury and Wakefield To Calderdale Cooper Bridge (Closed) Bradley Deighton Huddersfield Kirkheaton (Dismantled) Fenay Bridge & Lepton (Dismantled) Longwood & Milnsbridge (Closed) Lockwood Golcar (Closed) Kirkburton (Dismantled) Netherton (Dismantled) Berry Brow Slaithwaite Healey House (Dismantled) Meltham (Dismantled) Honley Marsden Brockholes To Saddleworth Thongsbridge (Dismantled) Stocksmoor Holmfirth (Dismantled) Shepley To Barnsley Shelley Skelmanthorpe Cuckoos Nest (Private Line) Clayton West

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Stocksmoor		Northern Rail Penistone Line		Honley
Disused Railways
Thongs Bridge		L&YR [[]]		N/A

[edit] References

1. ^ Bairstow, Martin (1993). The Huddersfield & Sheffield Junction Railway. Martin Bairstow. ISBN 1-871944-08-2. 

[edit] Image gallery

A train entering Thurstonland rail tunnel in the 1970s, when two tracks existed

Railway stations in West Yorkshire
MetroTrain lines: ▐ Airedale • ▐ Caldervale • ║ Dearne Valley • ▐ Hallam Line • ▐ Harrogate • ▐ Huddersfield • ▐ Leeds-Bradford • ▐ Penistone • ▐ Pontefract • ▐ Wakefield • ▐ Wharfedale • ▐ York & Selby
Major stations:   Bradford Forster Square - Bradford Interchange - Halifax - Huddersfield - Leeds - Shipley - Wakefield Westgate
Other stations:  Baildon - Batley - Ben Rhydding - Berry Brow - Bingley - Bramley - Brockholes - Brighouse - Burley Park - Burley-in-Wharfedale - Castleford - Cottingley - Crossflatts - Cross Gates - Darton* - Deighton - Denby Dale - Dewsbury - East Garforth - Featherstone - Fitzwilliam - Frizinghall - Garforth - Glasshoughton - Guiseley - Headingley - Hebden Bridge - Honley - Horsforth - Ilkley - Keighley - Knottingley - Lockwood - Marsden - Menston - Micklefield - Mirfield - Moorthorpe - Morley - Mytholmroyd - New Pudsey - Normanton - Outwood - Pontefract Baghill - Pontefract Monkhill - Pontefract Tanshelf - Ravensthorpe - Saltaire - Sandal and Agbrigg - Shepley - Slaithwaite - South Elmsall - Sowerby Bridge - Steeton and Silsden - Stocksmoor - Streethouse - Todmorden - Wakefield Kirkgate - Walsden - Woodlesford
* Darton station is in South Yorkshire, however West Yorkshire Metro passes are valid to/from this station.
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