Shepley railway station

Shepley railway station serves the villages of Shepley and Shelley in West Yorkshire, England. It lies on the Penistone Line operated by Northern. Opened by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in 1850, it is located at the southern end of one of the two passing loops on the otherwise single track section between Barnsley and Huddersfield.

This article is about the railway station serving Shepley, Kirklees. For the railway station serving Shipley, Bradford, see Shipley railway station.

Shepley
The view from platform 2, with a train leaving for Huddersfield
LocationShepley, Kirklees
England
Coordinates53.588950°N 1.705370°W / 53.588950; -1.705370
Grid referenceSE196103
Managed byNorthern Trains
Transit authorityWest Yorkshire (Metro)
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeSPY
Fare zone5
ClassificationDfT category F2
History
Opened1 July 1850[1]
Passengers
2015/16 72,266
2016/17 69,936
2017/18 74,316
2018/19 71,536
2019/20 75,008
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Shepley was also the junction station for the former branch line to Clayton West, via Skelmanthorpe from its opening in 1879 until closure in January 1983 – the branch has since been reopened as the minimum gauge Kirklees Light Railway, whose western terminus at Shelley is located just under a mile to the east.

The station layout is slightly unusual in that the platforms are staggered (on the opposite sides of a road bridge, as can be seen in the accompanying photo) rather than being located opposite each other like other stations on the route. The station once had a goods yard which has now been converted to housing; its main building on the northbound platform still stands, but is not in rail use.

Facilities

In August 2013, plans were released to install electronic real-time information screens (CIS) at the station. It was later revealed by Metro that they will be installed by January/February 2015.[2] These were eventually commissioned in the spring of 2015. The station has been unstaffed since 1966, and has a ticket machine. There are basic shelters on both platforms and each has step-free access.[3]

Services

Trains operate hourly from Shepley in each direction, towards Huddersfield and to Barnsley & Sheffield. Until 2017, services operated two-hourly each way on Sundays but since then they run hourly as during the week.[4]

Preceding station   National Rail   Following station
Northern Trains
Penistone Line
Disused railways
TerminusL&YR
Clayton West branch

References
  1. Bairstow, Martin (1993). The Huddersfield & Sheffield Junction Railway. Martin Bairstow. ISBN 1-871944-08-2.
  2. "Customer Information Enhancements at Rail Stations". September 2014. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
  3. Shepley station facilities National Rail Enquiries
  4. Table 34 National Rail timetable, December 2019


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