Stocksmoor railway station

Stocksmoor
The view from platform 2
Location
Place	Stocksmoor
Local authority	Kirklees
Coordinates	53°35′39″N 1°43′25″W / 53.594190°N 1.723550°W / 53.594190; -1.723550Coordinates: 53°35′39″N 1°43′25″W / 53.594190°N 1.723550°W / 53.594190; -1.723550
Grid reference	SE183108
Operations
Station code	SSM
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	19,348
2005/06	21,528
2006/07	20,948
2007/08	20,778
2008/09	24,588
2009/10	25,564
2010/11	27,194
2011/12	26,490
2012/13	21,232
2013/14	23,648
2014/15	23,376
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	West Yorkshire (Metro)
Zone	5
History
Key dates	Opened 1 July 1850^[1] (1 July 1850^[2])
National Rail – UK railway stations

* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Stocksmoor from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
UK Railways portal

Stocksmoor railway station serves the village of Stocksmoor near Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, England.

The station is 6.25 miles (10 km) from Huddersfield on the Penistone Line operated by Northern Rail.

Most of the Penistone Line is single track between Huddersfield and Barnsley. However, Stocksmoor marks the first point (for Sheffield-bound trains) or last point (for Huddersfield-bound trains) where there is dual running track (the passing loop extends as far south as the next station at Shepley).

Services

On Mondays to Saturdays, trains operate hourly from Stocksmoor in each direction, towards Huddersfield and to Barnsley & Sheffield. On Sundays, trains operate every two hours each way.^[3]

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Shepley		Northern Penistone Line		Brockholes

Kirklees South Lines

Legend

To Heckmondwike

To Dewsbury and Wakefield

To Calderdale

Cooper Bridge

Bradley

Deighton (1982– )

Deighton (1871–1930)

Kirkheaton

Newtown goods

Huddersfield

Fenay Bridge and Lepton

Longwood and Milnsbridge

Lockwood

Golcar

To Saddleworth

To Penistone

References

↑ Bairstow, Martin (1993). The Huddersfield & Sheffield Junction Railway. Martin Bairstow. ISBN 1-871944-08-2.
↑ Bairstow, Martin (1993). The Huddersfield & Sheffield Junction Railway. Martin Bairstow. ISBN 1-871944-08-2.
↑ Table 34 National Rail timetable, May 2016

External links

Train times and station information for Stocksmoor railway station from National Rail

Railway stations in West Yorkshire

Lists	List of busiest railway stations in West Yorkshire

MetroTrain lines	■ Airedale ■ Calder Valley ■ Dearne Valley ■ Hallam ■ Harrogate ■ Huddersfield ■ Leeds-Bradford ■ Penistone ■ Pontefract ■ Wakefield ■ Wharfedale

City of Bradford	Apperley Bridge Baildon Ben Rhydding Bingley Bradford Forster Square Bradford Interchange Burley-in-Wharfedale Crossflatts Frizinghall Ilkley Keighley Menston Saltaire Shipley Steeton and Silsden

Calderdale	Brighouse Halifax Hebden Bridge Mytholmroyd Sowerby Bridge Todmorden Walsden

Kirklees	Batley Berry Brow Brockholes Deighton Denby Dale Dewsbury Honley Huddersfield Lockwood Marsden Mirfield Ravensthorpe Shepley Slaithwaite Stocksmoor

City of Leeds	Bramley Burley Park Cottingley Cross Gates East Garforth Garforth Guiseley Headingley Horsforth Kirkstall Forge Leeds Micklefield Morley New Pudsey Woodlesford

City of Wakefield	Castleford Featherstone Fitzwilliam Glasshoughton Knottingley Moorthorpe Normanton Outwood Pontefract Baghill Pontefract Monkhill Pontefract Tanshelf Sandal and Agbrigg South Elmsall Streethouse Wakefield Kirkgate Wakefield Westgate

Outside West Yorkshire, but within the West Yorkshire Metro area	Cononley Darton Skipton

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