Bridlington railway station

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Facilities

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Bridlington railway station concourse

The station is staffed part-time, covering approximately 'shop hours'. Facilities include a waiting room, ticket office, lost property and car park. Wheelchair access is not complete due to a bridge to platform 4 (for Scarborough), meaning access to that platform is via a barrow crossing on the track which may require staff assistance. [9] A revamped footbridge with lifts is due for completion by summer 2023. [10]

A ticket-vending machine was installed on 26 January 2011, near to the Council Information Point inside the concourse.

Other parts of the building unused by the railway are now used for local interest groups – the parcel office is now an arts centre run by MIND mental health charity, and other parts of the building are used by Bridlington Model Railway Society. [11]

A Selecta Vending Machine is also available on platform 5.

Services

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Station platforms

There is a twice-hourly service from the station to Hull on weekdays, with alternate departures continuing to Doncaster and Sheffield or York – some of these are limited stop either side of Hull, whilst others serve most intermediate stations en route. In general, the stopping pattern of the hourly Sheffield service is Bridlington, Driffield, Beverley, Cottingham, Hull, Brough, Goole, Doncaster, Meadowhall and Sheffield. The York trains serve all stops to Hull apart from Arram (which has a limited service). One evening service to Doncaster and Sheffield runs via Selby rather than Goole. [12]

Northbound, there is now a basic hourly service to Scarborough all day (until 20:00) since the May 2019 timetable change. This is an improvement on the nine per day, each way frequency that formerly operated.

On Sundays, trains operate hourly to Hull and Scarborough from mid-morning throughout the year (rather than in summer only as before), with most of the Hull trains continuing to Sheffield via Doncaster. The new Sunday service is the first all-year-round, all line, Sunday train service since at least 1958.

The local Community Rail Partnership is hoping that service improvements, such as the year-round Sunday service and a weekday hourly service to Scarborough, can be implemented once Northern Rail receives additional rolling stock from the Department for Transport as part of a central government investment plan for the local rail network. [13]

Northern Rail confirmed its intentions to institute an improved weekday and all-year Sunday service from December 2009 (subject to approval from the DfT). [14] These changes were implemented with the start of the new timetable on 13 December 2009. [15]

Northern are further upgrading services to/from the station, which come into effect with the May 2019 timetable change. [16] This will see an hourly daytime service operating to and from Scarborough throughout the week. The December 2019 timetable change saw the introduction of a direct service to York via Hull.

Bridlington
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General information
Location Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire
England
Coordinates 54°05′02″N0°11′55″W / 54.0840°N 0.1985°W / 54.0840; -0.1985
Grid reference TA178668
Managed by Northern
Platforms3 (numbered 4-6)
Other information
Station codeBDT
Classification DfT category D
History
Original company York and North Midland Railway
Pre-grouping North Eastern Railway
Post-grouping London and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
6 October 1846opened
Passengers
2019/20Increase2.svg 0.484 million
 Interchange Increase2.svg 1,461
Preceding station  National Rail logo.svg National Rail  Following station
Northern
Historical railways
Station closed; Line open
Y&NMR
Station closed; Line open

Platforms

Bridlington station has currently 3 platforms (platforms 4–6).

Locomotive hauled and heritage trains

Loco-hauled and steam trains are now permitted access to the line following a nine-day engineering blockade in February 2008 and February 2009 that saw more than 4 miles of track replaced. [17]

On 25 July 2009 the first loco-hauled excursion for some years "The Bridlington Seaside Special" arrived from London King's Cross with Class 66 haulage. Western loco D1015 "Western Champion" visited on 5 December 2009 and a charter to Edinburgh ran on 18 December 2009. In 2010 a railtour to Carlisle began in Bridlington hauled by 2 Class 47 diesel locomotives. On 24 July the line was visited by a charter hauled by Class 67 locomotives.

Notes

  1. Body 1988 , p. 49
  2. Smith, Roger (17 October 2021). "Farewell to semaphore signals at Bridlington as new signalling system arrives". RailAdvent. Archived from the original on 17 October 2021. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
  3. Historic England. "Bridlington Railway Station (Grade II) (1096106)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 1 September 2013.
  4. Historic England. "Goods Shed, Bridlington Railway Station (Grade II) (1485065)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 21 July 2023.
  5. Wells, James (17 March 2021). "East Yorkshire's Last Semaphores" . Retrieved 18 February 2022.
  6. White, Chloe (7 February 2023). "Bridlington station passengers kept on the move with a new temporary bridge whilst access improvements continue". RailAdvent. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  7. "Bridlington Stationmaster was Air-Raid Hero" . Hull Daily Mail. England. 7 June 1950. Retrieved 10 September 2017 via British Newspaper Archive.
  8. Hoole, Ken (1983). Trains in Trouble: Vol. 4. Redruth: Atlantic Books. p. 39. ISBN   0-906899-07-9.
  9. "Bridlington (BDT) Station details". National Rail. Retrieved 24 March 2010.
  10. "Major upgrades at Bridlington station are now underway". Network Rail. 15 November 2022.
  11. "Station Buffet | Bridlington : Concourse]". www.stationbuffet.com. Retrieved 24 March 2010.
  12. Table 21, 24 National Rail timetable, May2025
  13. "Breakthrough In Train Service bid". Filey Mercury. 24 January 2009. Retrieved 30 January 2009.
  14. "Northern Rail Press Release regarding service improvements for Wolds Coast Line". Northern Rail. Archived from the original on 31 May 2009. Retrieved 9 June 2009.
  15. Gb National Rail Timetable, December 2009 Edition, Table 43
  16. Northern Franchise Improvements - DfT Archived 24 July 2019 at the Wayback Machine Department for Transport; Retrieved 31 March 2016
  17. "Investment in Hull to Scarborough Rail Line Continues" (Press release). Network Rail Media Centre. 6 February 2008. Archived from the original on 7 September 2012. Retrieved 31 March 2009.

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