Frizinghall railway station is situated in the

Frizinghall Frizinghall is a district in the Heaton ward of the City of Bradford, West Yorkshire, lying north of the city centre close to the town of Shipley, itself a part of the City of Bradford Metropolitan District along with such other nearby towns ...

district of

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. The station, an unstaffed halt north of Bradford Forster Square is on the Airedale Line, and all trains serving it are operated by

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History

Frizinghall station was opened by the

Midland Railway The Midland Railway (MR) was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1844. The Midland was one of the largest railway companies in Britain in the early 20th century, and the largest employer in Derby, where it had its headquarters. It am ...

on 1 February 1875. It remained in operation until it was closed on 20 March 1965, a casualty of the

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. However, the line on which it stood remained open, and 22 years later, the

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and

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reopened the station. The original station had two platforms opposite each other on the north side of Frizinghall Road, but the current station, opened on 7 September 1987, has its two platforms separated: the northbound platform is approximately where it was before, and the southbound is to the south of Frizinghall Road.

Bradford Grammar School Bradford Grammar School (BGS) is a co-educational independent day school located in Frizinghall, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. Entrance is by examination, except for the sixth form, where admission is based on GCSE results. The school g ...

was relocated to Frizinghall in the late 1940s. From then until closure, and again after reopening, pupils have constituted one of the main sources of traffic at the station. Indeed, it was an English teacher at Bradford Grammar School, Dr Robin Sisson, who actively fought for the Frizinghall station to reopen. Sisson was killed in a car accident in Sheffield on 24 June 2008. Frizinghall signal box, which was removed in 1971, is preserved in working order at Damems Junction, on the

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Stationmasters

*Joseph Mawby 1876 - 1891 *J.W. Smales 1891 - 1926 *Robert Little 1926 - 1933 (also station master at Manningham, afterwards station master at Tutbury) *Thomas Hagley 1933 - 1939 (formerly station master at Menston, also station master at Manningham) *John Fell 1939 - 1945 *F.W. Garnett 1945 - (also station master at Manningham)

Facilities

The station is not staffed, but ticket machines are provided. There are shelters on both platforms, along with digital information screens; a long-line P.A system also provides train running information. Step-free access to each platform is via ramps from the road bridge.

Services

Frizinghall is served by trains from Bradford Forster Square towards

Leeds Leeds () is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds district in West Yorkshire, England. It is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. It is also the third-largest settlement (by populati ...

(on the Leeds-Bradford Line),

Skipton Skipton (also known as Skipton-in-Craven) is a market town and civil parish in the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England. Historically in the East Division of Staincliffe Wapentake in the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is on the River Air ...

(on the Airedale Line) and

Ilkley Ilkley is a spa town and civil parish in the City of Bradford in West Yorkshire, in Northern England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, Ilkley civil parish includes the adjacent village of Ben Rhydding and is a ward within the ...

(on the Wharfedale Line). Monday to Saturday daytimes, trains operate every 30 minutes each way to Leeds and hourly to Skipton and Ilkley. During the evenings, there are trains every hour to/from each of Skipton and Ilkley plus an hourly service between Forster Square and . At these times there are no trains to Leeds, though connections are available at Shipley into/out of the Skipton - Leeds service. On Sundays, trains run twice each hour to Bradford, every hour to Leeds (until end of service) and hourly to each of Ilkley and Skipton.

References

* Whitaker, Alan & Myland, Brian, 1993 ''Railway Memories No 4: Bradford''. Bellcode Books * Bairstow, Martin, 2004 ''Railways Through Airedale & Wharfedale''

External links

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