Horton-in-Ribblesdale railway station

Horton-in-Ribblesdale
Horton-in-Ribblesdale station
Location
Place	Settle
Local authority	Craven
Coordinates	54°08′58″N 2°18′07″W / 54.1494°N 2.3020°W / 54.1494; -2.3020Coordinates: 54°08′58″N 2°18′07″W / 54.1494°N 2.3020°W / 54.1494; -2.3020
Grid reference	SD803726
Operations
Station code	HIR
Managed by	Northern
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2010/11	17,968
2011/12	19,008
2012/13	16,176
2013/14	15,912
2014/15	15,656
History
1876	opened
1970	closed
1986	reopened
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Horton-in-Ribblesdale from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Horton-in-Ribblesdale railway station is a small station in Horton in Ribblesdale, North Yorkshire, England on the Settle-Carlisle Line 47 ¹⁄₄ miles (76 km) northwest of Leeds.

History

The station was completed by the Midland Railway in 1876 and was opened for the use of passengers on 1 May. It was initially named Horton.^[1] The London Midland and Scottish Railway absorbed the Midland Railway on 1 January 1923 and renamed the station as Horton-in-Ribblesdale on 26 September 1927.^[2]

The station buildings were designed by the Midland Railway company architect John Holloway Sanders.^[3]

The station is currently (2016) served and managed by Northern as are all the trains calling at the station. It is unstaffed, with no ticket vending facilities (so tickets can only be purchased in advance or on the train). The station waiting room is open for public use, having been restored by the Settle & Carlisle Railway Trust in 2002 as part of a wider refurbishment of the main buildings on the eastern side (other parts of the building are rented out for commercial use).^[4]

It is located near to Pen-y-ghent, one of the mountains known collectively as the Yorkshire Three Peaks. The station and the village of Horton-in-Ribblesdale is located 850 feet above sea level, per the decorative station information board, and is approximately 6 miles (10 km) north of Settle.

In the 1950s and 1960s under stationmaster Taylor, Horton won the Best Kept Station award for seventeen consecutive years.^[5] The station lost its passenger service on 4 May 1970, but reopened in July 1986,^[6] along with several other local stations on the line under British Rail.

Facilites

The platforms are linked by a barrow crossing and are both lower than standard (though the southbound one has been partially raised to improve access to trains); there is no step-free access.^[7] Train running information is available via telephone and timetable posters.

Service

It gets about one train every two hours in each direction—one to Leeds (seven in total) and one to Carlisle (five, plus one evening train that terminates at Ribblehead). The total is slightly imbalanced as certain services do not stop here. There is an extra train in both directions on Saturdays, whilst there are three trains a day to both Leeds and Carlisle on Sundays.^[8] Dalesrail trains between Blackpool/Preston and Carlisle (one each way) also serve the station during the summer months.

Bibliography

• 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. 

References

External links

Media related to Horton-in-Ribblesdale railway station at Wikimedia Commons

• Train times and station information for Horton-in-Ribblesdale railway station from National Rail

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Settle		Northern Settle-Carlisle Line		Ribblehead