Ravensthorpe railway station

Ravensthorpe
Ravensthorpe station, looking towards Dewsbury and Leeds
Location
Place	Ravensthorpe
Local authority	Kirklees
Coordinates	53°40′32″N 1°39′20″W / 53.675660°N 1.655550°W / 53.675660; -1.655550Coordinates: 53°40′32″N 1°39′20″W / 53.675660°N 1.655550°W / 53.675660; -1.655550
Grid reference	SE228199
Operations
Station code	RVN
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*
2004/05	12,334
2005/06	14,255
2006/07	15,501
2007/08	16,323
2008/09	19,084
2009/10	19,884
2010/11	23,064
2011/12	23,784
2012/13	30,968
2013/14	33,288
2014/15	34,974
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	West Yorkshire Metro
Zone	3
History
Key dates	Opened 1890 (1890)
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Ravensthorpe from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
UK Railways portal

Ravensthorpe railway station serves the Ravensthorpe district of Dewsbury in West Yorkshire, England. It lies on the Huddersfield Line operated by Northern and is 8 miles (13 km) north east of Huddersfield, just beyond Dewsbury junction of the former Manchester and Leeds Railway line towards Wakefield Kirkgate and on the main line to Leeds (the former Leeds, Dewsbury & Manchester Railway). The station's platforms are only located on the latter route. A late addition to the LNWR line (station and goods shed built 1890, although the line itself opened some 42 years earlier) to snap up freight work in the area for the company, it remains a curiosity as to why platforms have not been extended to serve the Wakefield lines.

It is unstaffed (the former station buildings having been demolished after being damaged by fire and replaced with basic shelters) and passengers travelling from there must buy their tickets on the train (there being no ticketing facilities of any kind here). There are timetable posters and a telephone available to obtain train running information, along with digital information screens. Step-free access is limited to the eastbound platform, as the westbound one can only be reached by a footbridge.^[1]

Ravensthorpe is one of West Yorkshire's least used stations due to its relatively remote location, although it does serve the nearby town of Thornhill.

Location

Although serving Ravensthorpe on the north bank of the River Calder, the station is situated on the south bank of the river in the civil parish of Mirfield.

Services

Generally an hourly service operates from Ravensthorpe towards Huddersfield and Leeds. One a.m. peak service in each direction on the Calder Valley line via Brighouse also calls, including one through train to Manchester Victoria.^[2]

Sundays there is a two-hourly service towards both Leeds and Huddersfield.

References

Gallery

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  Platform 2.

External links

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

Railways in North Kirklees (Past, present and future)

Legend to Bradford Birstall Town to Leeds Lower Birstall Howden Clough Upper Batley to Leeds Carlinghow Gomersal to Bradford to Leeds Cleckheaton Spen Cleckheaton Central Batley Liversedge Spen Liversedge Central Chickenley Heath Heckmondwike Spen to Wakefield Batley Carr Staincliffe and Batley Carr Heckmondwike Central Dewsbury Central Dewsbury Wellington Road Earlsheaton Ravensthorpe Lower to Wakefield Northorpe Higher to Wakefield Northorpe North Road Dewsbury Market Place Ravensthorpe Dewsbury Midland Goods Battyeford Thornhill Mirfield to Royston and Notton to Huddersfield to Huddersfield

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Mirfield		Northern Huddersfield Line		Dewsbury