Shepley railway station serves the villages of

Shepley Shepley is a village in the civil parish of Kirkburton, in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England, and in the Diocese of Wakefield. It lies south south east of Huddersfield and north west of Penistone. In the 2011 census the population of Shep ...

and Shelley in

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, England. It lies on the

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operated by

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. Opened by the

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in 1850, it is located at the southern end of one of the two

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s on the otherwise single track section between

Barnsley Barnsley () is a market town in South Yorkshire, England. As the main settlement of the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley and the fourth largest settlement in South Yorkshire. In Barnsley, the population was 96,888 while the wider Borough has ...

and

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 ...

. Shepley was also the junction station for the former branch line to

Clayton West Clayton West is a village in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. It had a population of 2,648 (2001 census) and 2,704 in 2008. It is southeast of Huddersfield and northwest of Barnsley. History The Industrial Revolution was the transition to ...

, via from its opening in 1879 until closure in January 1983 – the branch has since been reopened as the minimum gauge

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, whose western terminus at is located just under a mile to the east. The station layout is slightly unusual in that the platforms are staggered (on the opposite sides of a road bridge, as can be seen in the accompanying photo) rather than being located opposite each other like other stations on the route. The station once had a goods yard which has now been converted to housing; its main building on the northbound platform still stands, but is not in rail use.

Facilities

In August 2013, plans were released to install electronic real-time information screens (CIS) at the station. It was later revealed by Metro that they will be installed by January/February 2015. These were eventually commissioned in the spring of 2015. The station has been unstaffed since 1966, and has a ticket machine. There are basic shelters on both platforms and each has step-free access.

Services

Trains operate hourly from Shepley in each direction, towards , and to and . Until 2017, services operated two-hourly each way on Sundays but since then they run hourly as during the week.

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Railway stations in Kirklees DfT Category F2 stations Former Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway stations Northern franchise railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1850 Kirkburton {{Yorkshire-Humber-railstation-stub