Horsforth railway station

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Horsforth
Location
Place	Horsforth
Local authority	City of Leeds
Operations
Station code	HRS
Managed by	Northern Rail
Platforms in use	2
Live departures and station information from National Rail
Annual Rail Passenger Usage
2004/05 *	0.615 million
2005/06 *	0.688 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	West Yorkshire (Metro)
Zone	2
History
Key dates	Opened 1849
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Horsforth from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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Horsforth railway station is on the Harrogate Line 9 km (5.75 miles) north west of Leeds station and the final stop in West Yorkshire towards Harrogate.

The station serves the Leeds suburbs Horsforth, Cookridge and Tinshill and was opened in 1849. In 1969 it was unstaffed and all the buildings demolished as part of the general retrenchment of railways in West Yorkshire at that time. Happily the North Eastern Railway signal box survived and is still in use today.

Growing traffic congestion in Leeds promoted an increased traffic from Horsforth in the 1990s, and in 2002/3 Horsforth station was extensively redeveloped to better cater for the greater number of passengers. New waiting rooms were built on both platforms, along with a ticket office on the Leeds (Up) platform which opened on 16 July 2003. It is open from 0610-1900 Mon-Sat and 0930-1630 Sun. The station is roughly 45 minutes by foot from Leeds Bradford International Airport and is roughly 5 minutes in the car. Plans have just been announced for a new nearby station at Horsforth Woodside.

[edit] Services

Monday to Saturday daytimes, is generally a half-hourly service from Horsforth southbound to Leeds and a half-hourly service northbound to Knaresborough with one train per hour onwards to York. In peak hours, there are extra services to and from Leeds.

Evenings and Sundays there is an hourly service in each direction.

On Monday to Friday mornings there is one direct service to London King's Cross. At all other times, travellers to/from London must change at Leeds.

[edit] External links

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

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Headingley		Northern Rail Harrogate Line		Weeton
Leeds		NXEC Mon-Fri Southbound only Pick-up only		Harrogate

 

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