Guiseley railway station is a railway station in Guiseley, in the City of Leeds

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, West Yorkshire, England. On the Wharfedale Line between Ilkley and Leeds/ Bradford Forster Square, it is served mostly by Class 333 electric trains run by Northern Trains, which also manages the station.

History

The station opened in 1865 originally being owned by the Midland Railway. There were services to Otley until 1965 when the

Arthington to Menston line The Otley and Ilkley Joint Railway was a railway line running between the towns of Otley and Ilkley in West Yorkshire. The line was managed and run jointly by the Midland Railway (MR) and the North Eastern Railway (NER) and was long. Opened to ...

closed under the

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. The line was electrified between 1994 and 1995 while the station was largely reconstructed in 2002. Patronage has slowly increased at the station with it having consistently over one million annual passengers since 2012.

Services

During Monday to Saturday daytimes services run to/from Leeds and

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twice per hour, meaning that as Guiseley is the first station that is served by trains on both branches of the line, there are four services every hour to Ilkley. During Monday to Saturday evenings, services are hourly to/from both Leeds and Bradford Forster Square. On Sundays, services are hourly to/from Leeds and Bradford. Services at the station are operated by British Rail Class 333 and Class 331

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Facilities

The station facilities were redeveloped in 2002 to give a new waiting room on platform two (for trains to Leeds and Bradford) and a waiting room and ticket office on platform one (for trains to Ilkley). This office is open from 06:15–19:30 Mon–Sat and 09:15–16:30 on Sundays. A small car park is accessible from Station Road and the station has cycle lockers situated on either platform with an additional cycle shelter outside the ticket office. Passengers on foot can also access the station via a path from Netherfield Road or a path that connects with Morton Terrace and Otley Road. Step-free access is available only on the Ilkley-bound platform.Guiseley station facilities
''National Rail Enquiries''; Retrieved 5 December 2016 The station is equipped with live information displays, there is a payphone on platform one and an automated ticket machine which can be used outside of the ticket office hours on platform two.

Connections to Leeds Bradford Airport

Along with Horsforth station on the Harrogate Line, Guiseley is one of the two closest railway stations to

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, at nearby Yeadon. An hourly

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service (Service A3) between the airport and

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runs along nearby Oxford Road. However, a more frequent bus service to/from the airport (Service A1) runs from Leeds railway station but can take longer.

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