Baildon railway station

Baildon
The view from the platform
Location
Place	Baildon
Local authority	City of Bradford
Coordinates	53°51′00″N 1°45′14″W / 53.850°N 1.754°WCoordinates: 53°51′00″N 1°45′14″W / 53.850°N 1.754°W
Grid reference	SE162393
Operations
Station code	BLD
Managed by	Northern
Number of platforms	1
DfT category	F1
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2010/11	0.222 million
2011/12	0.220 million
2012/13	0.208 million
2013/14	0.216 million
2014/15	0.251 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	West Yorkshire Metro
Zone	3
History
4 December 1876	Station opens
5 January 1953	Station closed
28 January 1957	Station reopened
29 April 1957	Station closed
5 January 1973	Station reopened
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Baildon from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
UK Railways portal

View towards Shipley and Bradford in 1961

Baildon railway station serves the town of Baildon near Shipley in West Yorkshire, England. The station reopened under British Rail on 5 January 1973, by the Chairman of Baildon Council - Arnold Lightowler, having been closed for exactly 20 years, and is 4 miles (6 km) north of Bradford Forster Square on the Wharfedale Line. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by Northern.

History

Opened by the Midland Railway in December 1876,^[1] the station became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923, and then passed to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. It was then closed by the British Transport Commission as an economy measure in January 1953 (though it briefly reopened for 3 months in 1957). Goods traffic at the station ceased in April 1964.^[2]

Services

During Monday to Saturday daytimes, there is a half-hourly service to Bradford Forster Square and Ilkley. During Monday to Saturday evenings it is hourly in each direction, and on Sundays it is two-hourly.^[3]

Unlike other stations on the Wharfedale and Airedale lines, Baildon has no direct service to Leeds owing to its position on the curve between the two lines. Passengers must instead change at Shipley or Guiseley (Shipley having more services) to access Leeds.

The site today

The line has been reduced to single track, so there is only one platform, and the station building has been sold. The second platform is disused and covered in weeds.

Notes

1. "Bradford Timeline 1875-99" Retrieved 3 June 2016
2. "The SLS/MLS 'West Riding Rail Tour"Manchester Locomotive Society; Retrieved 3 June 2016
3. Table 38 National Rail timetable, May 2016

References

• Railways Through Airedale & Wharfedale Martin Bairstow (2004) ISBN 1-871944-28-7
• Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687.
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137.

External links

• Train times and station information for Baildon railway station from National Rail
• Station on navigable O.S. map
• Heritage Walks around Baildon - including a Railway Walk

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Shipley		Northern Wharfedale Line		Guiseley
	Disused railways
Shipley Line and station open		Midland Railway Wharfedale Line		Esholt Line open, station closed