Frizinghall railway station

Frizinghall
Platform 2
Location
Place	Frizinghall
Local authority	City of Bradford
Coordinates	53.820000°N 1.768600°W / 53.820000; -1.768600
Grid reference	SE153359
Operations
Station code	FZH
Managed by	Northern Rail
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 *	0.230 million
2005/06 *	0.261 million
2006/07 *	0.268 million
2007/08 *	0.277 million
2008/09 *	0.365 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	West Yorkshire (Metro)
Zone	3
History
Opened 1875 Closed 1965 Reopened 1987 (1875 Closed 1965 Reopened 1987)
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Frizinghall from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.

Frizinghall railway station is situated in the Frizinghall district of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. The station, an unstaffed halt 2 miles (3 km) north of Bradford Forster Square is on the Airedale Line, and all trains serving it are operated by Northern Rail.

History

Frizinghall station was opened by the Midland Railway on 1 February 1875. It remained in operation until it was closed on 20 March 1965, a casualty of the Beeching Axe. However, the line on which it stood remained open, and 22 years later, the West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive reopened the station.

The original station had two platforms opposite each other on the north side of Frizinghall Road, but the current station, opened on 7 September 1987, has its two platforms separated: the northbound platform is approximately where it was before, and the southbound is to the south of Frizinghall Road.

Bradford Grammar School was relocated to Frizinghall in the late 1940s. From then until closure, and again after reopening, pupils have constituted one of the main sources of traffic at the station. Indeed, it was an English teacher at Bradford Grammar School, Dr Robin Sisson, who actively fought for Frizinghall station to reopen. Sisson was killed in a car accident in Sheffield on 24 June 2008.

Frizinghall signal box is preserved in working order at Damems Junction, on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway.

Historically, services were as follows:

Dates	Company or line	Preceding station	Following station
1875-1923	Midland	Manningham	Shipley
1923-1948	LMS	Manningham	Shipley
1948-1965	British Railways	Manningham	Shipley
1987-present	West Yorkshire Metro	Forster Square	Shipley

Services

Frizinghall is served by trains from Bradford Forster Square towards Leeds (on the Leeds-Bradford Line), Skipton (on the Airedale Line) and Ilkley (on the Wharfedale Line). Monday to Saturday in the daytime, trains operate every 30 minutes on each route. During the evenings, there are trains every hour to each of Skipton and Ilkley; on Sundays these run every two hours. At these times, there are no trains to Leeds; passengers have to change at Shipley.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Bradford Forster Square		Northern Rail Leeds-Bradford Line		Shipley
Bradford Forster Square		Northern Rail Airedale Line		Shipley
Bradford Forster Square		Northern Rail Wharfedale Line		Shipley
	Historical railways
Manningham		Midland Railway Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway		Shipley
Manningham		Midland Railway Leeds and Bradford Railway		Shipley

References

• Whitaker, Alan & Myland, Brian, 1993 Railway Memories No 4: Bradford. Bellcode Books ISBN 1-871233-03-8
• Bairstow, Martin, 2004 Railways Through Airedale & Wharfedale ISBN 1-871944-28-7

External links

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