Core Strategy Baseline Analysis Study - Bradford Metropolitan ...

Keighley 23 minutes
4 tph to Forster Square
(via Airedale & Wharfdale lines)
2 tph
Brighouse 26 minutes 1 tph
Hebden Bridge 30 minutes 2 tph
Ilkley 33 minutes 2 tph
Morley
1 change 47 minutes 1 tph Morley - Leeds
4 tph Leeds - Bradford
Dewsbury
1 change 48 minutes 1 tph Deswbury - Leeds
4 tph Leeds - Bradford
Horsforth
1 change 50 minutes 2 tph Horsforth - Leeds
4 tph Leeds - Bradford
Wakefield
(Westgate)
1 change 50 minutes
2 tph Wakefield Westgate –Leeds
4 tph Leeds - Bradford
1 Journey times taken from National Rail enquiries journey planner to arrive 0900 with least changes
possible.
Description of some of the major train stations and their services are presented below:
Bradford Interchange
Bradford Interchange is on the Caldervale Line and is one of the two railway stations serving
the city of Bradford. The other station is, as mentioned above, Forster Square, ten minutes'
walk away.
During Monday to Saturday daytimes, services run every 15 minutes between the
Interchange and Leeds, and hourly onwards to York and Selby respectively. On evenings
and Sundays there is a half-hourly service to Leeds and usually hourly to York.
In the other direction there is a train every 15 minutes to Halifax with two trains an hour
continuing to Manchester Victoria (one limited stop, the other serving all stations to
Rochdale), one to Blackpool North and one to Wakefield Westgate via Huddersfield where
customers can change for Sheffield and Manchester Airport.
Sundays there is a half-hourly service to Halifax with an hourly service on to Manchester
Victoria and one train an hour alternates between Blackpool North and Huddersfield.
Due to the geography of Bradford, the station was built as a terminus. Trains have to reverse
out of the station, and drivers have to change to the other end of the train.
Recently it has been announced that direct rail services between Bradford Interchange and
London are set to return for the first time in more than a decade. Grand Central Railway - an
open-access company that operates services between London and Sunderland, had
proposed to run services into Bradford Interchange using the East Coast Main Line from
Kings Cross via Halifax, Brighouse, Wakefield Kirgate, Pontefract Monkhill and Doncaster
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