Denby Dale railway station serves the village of

Denby Dale Denby Dale is a village and civil parish in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. It is 10 miles (17 km) to the south-east of Huddersfield and 9 miles (14 km) north-west of Barnsley. The village is the main villa ...

, in

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and the surrounding area. It lies on the

Penistone Line The Penistone Line is operated by Northern Trains in the West Yorkshire Metro and Travel South Yorkshire areas of northern England. It connects Huddersfield and Sheffield via Penistone and Barnsley, serving many rural communities. Metrocards ( ...

south east of

Huddersfield Huddersfield is a market town in the Kirklees district in West Yorkshire, England. It is the administrative centre and largest settlement in the Kirklees district. The town is in the foothills of the Pennines. The River Holme's confluence into ...

and is operated by Northern. Opened by the Huddersfield & Sheffield Junction Railway in 1850 (which subsequently became part of the

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), it originally had two platforms but lost the northbound one when the Clayton West Junction to Penistone section was singled in 1969. The line from the south is carried above the village on an impressive 21-arch stone

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which is over high (one of several such structures on the route).

Facilities and ticketing

Station facilities

The station has only a single platform. It is accessed by either a ramp from the car park or by a subway. The only remaining station buildings are in private industrial use, but there is a standard waiting shelter on the platform. Timetable information is provided on posters, but there are no information screens or automated announcements. No step-free access is available to the platform - the main entrance via the car park has a high kerb that can cause difficulties for wheelchair users, whilst the pedestrian subway at the south end has steps. The station is unstaffed, with no ticket buying facilities, and passengers must buy their tickets prior to travel or from the conductor on the train.

Passenger Transport Executive ticket validity

Denby Dale is a boundary station for both West Yorkshire PTE and South Yorkshire PTE. Therefore, tickets for both PTEs are valid to and from this station.

Services

On Monday to Saturday, trains operate hourly towards northbound and

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via southbound; this also runs hourly in each direction on Sundays.GB eNRT December 2019 Edition, Table 34

References

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{{West Yorkshire railway stations Railway stations in Kirklees DfT Category F1 stations Former Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway stations Northern franchise railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1850

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