Walsden railway station

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General information
Location	Calderdale
Managed by	Northern
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	WDN
Fare zone	5
History
Opened	1990

Walsden railway station serves the village of Walsden, Todmorden in West Yorkshire, England, on the edge of the Pennines.

It is served by the Caldervale Line operated by Northern. The station is 32 miles (51 km) west of Leeds and 17.25 miles (28 km) north east of Manchester Victoria. Walsden is the last station before the boundary with Greater Manchester. The station was opened by Metro (West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive) on 10 September 1990 as a replacement for an earlier structure that closed on 6 August 1961. This earlier station, which was opened in 1845 by the Manchester & Leeds Railway, predecessor of the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, was situated between the level crossing and the north portal of Winterbutlee Tunnel, a few yards south of the present station.

Services

There is an hourly service (Mondays to Fridays) to Manchester Victoria southbound and to Leeds via Dewsbury northbound (since the May 2014 timetable change) with extra trains during peak times in each direction (including some trains to Burnley & Blackburn). Passengers wishing to access destinations on the route via Halifax during the day now have to change at Todmorden or Hebden Bridge.

In the evenings, the frequency remains hourly but trains run via Halifax whilst on Sundays eastbound services run to Blackburn - connections are available at Todmorden for stations further east.

History

It was the only place in Todmorden to be bombed during the Second World War Blitz, probably because the German plane had a leftover bomb after a raid and so dropped it on what appeared to be an important site.

The station has had problems with flooding for many years, with the most recent bout occurring on 26 December 2015. The line was blocked the following day, but reopened to traffic on 28 December.

External links

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

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Littleborough		Northern Caldervale Line		Todmorden

Calderdale Lines
Past, present and future
to Bradford to Bradford Queensbury Holmfield Bailiff Bridge Lightcliffe Clifton Road Ovenden to Kirklees North Bridge Brighouse Hipperholme Pellon Elland Power Station Halifax St Pauls Elland Halifax Town South Parade Greetland Shaw Syke Rochdale Road Halt Copley West Vale Stainland and Holywell Green Sowerby Bridge Luddendenfoot Watson's Crossing Halt Mytholmroyd Triangle to Burnley Ripponden and Barkisland Portsmouth Rishworth Cornholme Hebden Bridge Stansfield Hall Eastwood Todmorden Walsden to Rochdale