Honley railway station

Honley railway station serves the village of Honley in the Holme Valley of West Yorkshire, England. Honley station lies approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) from Huddersfield on the Penistone Line operated by Northern Trains.

Honley
LocationHonley, Kirklees
England
Coordinates53.6082°N 1.7809°W / 53.6082; -1.7809
Grid referenceSE145124
Managed byNorthern Trains
Transit authorityWest Yorkshire (Metro)
Platforms1
Other information
Station codeHOY
Fare zone5
ClassificationDfT category F2
History
Opened1 July 1850[1]
Passengers
2015/16 58,684
2016/17 57,838
2017/18 52,050
2018/19 53,902
2019/20 52,192
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

The station was opened by the Huddersfield & Sheffield Junction Railway (a constituent company of the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway) in 1850.
The railway line through Honley has been single since 1989, with only one platform (the former northbound one) in use for both directions

Facilities

In August 2013, plans were released to install electronic customer real-time information screens (CIS) at the station. It was later revealed by Metro that they were to be installed in May/June 2015.[2] These are now (December 2016) in use. The station is unmanned and has no ticket machine, so tickets must be purchased on the train or in advance. A customer help point and timetable posters are provided in addition to the CIS screens to offer train running information. A single waiting shelter is located next to the station entrance; there is no step-free access however, as the platform is above street level and can only be reached by stairs from the car park below.[3]

Services

There is an hourly service in operation Monday to Saturday from Honley to Huddersfield and Sheffield via Barnsley; on Sundays trains also call hourly each way from mid-morning.[4]

Preceding station   National Rail   Following station
Northern Trains
Penistone Line

References

  1. Bairstow, Martin (1993). The Huddersfield & Sheffield Junction Railway. Martin Bairstow. ISBN 1-871944-08-2.
  2. Metro News - Customer Information Enhancements at Rail Stations Archived 12 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine/
  3. Honley station facilities National Rail Enquiries; Retrieved 16 January 2017
  4. Table 34 National Rail timetable, December 2019


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