Brough railway station serves the town of Brough in the

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. It is managed by

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, and also served by Northern,

Hull Trains Hull Trains is an open-access railway operator in England owned by the multinational transport company FirstGroup. It operates long-distance passenger services between Hull / Beverley and London King's Cross. It has a track-access agreement u ...

and

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. The station was originally opened by the

Hull and Selby Railway The Hull and Selby Railway is a railway line between Kingston upon Hull and Selby in the United Kingdom which was authorised by an act of 1836 and opened in 1840. As built the line connected with the Leeds and Selby Railway (opened 1834) at Selby ...

in 1840 and at one time had four tracks passing through. The course of the additional outer tracks (and the two disused platform faces) are still visible, although these were removed in the early 1970s.

Facilities

There is a ticket office inside the main building which is staffed each day from start of service until 19:45 (18:30 on Sundays) and there is a self-service ticket machine (card only) outside the door available 24 hours a day. There is also a vending machine and a refreshment stall open each morning. There is a waiting room on each platform and step-free access to both is available (to platform 2 via ramps onto the footbridge). Automated public address announcements and digital display screens were upgraded by TransPennine Express in 2017. Free Wi-Fi is also being introduced to the station. There is a pay and display car park located north and south of the station, whilst Brough centre and bus services are a short walk from the station.

Services

All services on the various routes out of Hull call at the station, giving it good links with many towns and cities in the rest of Yorkshire. There are also a number of through trains each day to and from London King's Cross, courtesy of

(seven departures each day) and

. (one morning service outbound, returning in the evening). Sunday sees an hourly service to Sheffield and every two hours to York & Manchester (with some extra trains in the afternoon). There are now also a few through trains to Scarborough all year since the December 2009 timetable change. Northern has promised to introduce an additional hourly service between Leeds and Bridlington. Service frequency improvements will also be implemented on the York & Sheffield routes both on weekdays and on Sundays as part of the new franchise agreement. The additional Northern service (from Hull to Halifax via Leeds and Bradford Interchange) began at the 2019 winter timetable change. As of December 2019, the typical off-peak service pattern is as follows: TransPennine Express * 1tph - Manchester Piccadilly via Leeds * 1tph - Hull Northern * 4tph - Hull (2tph continues beyond Hull to Bridlington or Scarborough via the Yorkshire Coast Line) * 2tph - Doncaster via Goole (or Selby; one fast, one stopping). Express service continues to Sheffield. * 1tph - York * 1tph - Halifax via Leeds Hull Trains * 1tp2h - London Kings Cross via Selby and Doncaster * 1tp2h - Hull with 1tpd continuing to Beverley (via the Yorkshire Coast Line) London North Eastern Railway * 1tpd - London Kings Cross via Doncaster * 1tpd - Hull

Gallery

File:Brough Railway Station - geograph.org.uk - 1604550.jpg, Looking East, 2009 File:Brough railway station 1924533 129fc16a.jpg, The station in 1961

References

External links

{{Railway stations served by Northern Trains Railway stations in the East Riding of Yorkshire DfT Category E stations Former Hull and Selby Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1840 Railway stations served by Hull Trains Northern franchise railway stations Railway stations served by TransPennine Express Railway stations served by London North Eastern Railway