Saltaire railway station

Saltaire
Looking down the entrance ramp
Location
Place	Saltaire
Local authority	City of Bradford
Coordinates	53.8385°N 1.7904°W / 53.8385; -1.7904
Grid reference	SE138380
Operations
Station code	SAE
Managed by	Northern Rail
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 *	0.396 million
2005/06 *	0.419 million
2006/07 *	0.429 million
2007/08 *	0.450 million
2008/09 *	0.586 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	West Yorkshire (Metro)
Zone	3
History
Original company	Midland Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
May 1856	opened
20 March 1965	closed
9 April 1984	reopened
National Rail - UK railway stations
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 estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Saltaire from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.

Saltaire railway station serves the village of Saltaire near Shipley in West Yorkshire, England.

History

The original station was opened in May 1856 by the Midland Railway, which had absorbed the Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway between Shipley and Colne in 1851. It closed on March 20, 1965 following the Beeching Axe, but West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive reopened it on 9 April 1984. The current station is unstaffed, and has wooden platforms and no substantial buildings.

The station is on the Airedale Line, between Bradford and Leeds, and Skipton. It is a busy commuter station both for passengers travelling to Leeds and Bradford and for staff in companies based in Salt's Mill, as well as serving tourists visiting Saltaire.

The lower station of the Shipley Glen Tramway is about half a mile from Saltaire Station.

Services

During Monday to Saturday daytime, there is a half-hourly service from Bingley to both Leeds and Bradford Forster Square in one direction and four trains an hour going towards Keighley and Skipton. Evenings there is a half hourly service to Leeds and an hourly service to Bradford Forster Square and three trains per hour to Skipton.

On Sundays there is an hourly service to Leeds and a two-hourly service to Bradford Forster Square with one or two trains per hour in the other direction to Skipton.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Shipley		Northern Rail Airedale Line		Bingley
	Historical railways
Shipley		Midland Railway Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway		Bingley

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  The view from platform 2.

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  Platform 2.

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  Two Class 333 trains cross at the station.

Bibliography

• Bairstow, Martin. Railways Through Airedale & Wharfedale. ISBN 1-87194-428-7. 
• Chapman, Stephen. Railway Memories No. 7: Airedale & Wharfedale. Bellcode books. ISBN 1-87123-305-4. 

External links

• Train times and station information for Saltaire railway station from National Rail
• Proposals to improve the station