New Pudsey railway station

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New Pudsey
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New Pudsey railway station in May 2006
General information
Location Farsley, City of Leeds
England
Coordinates 53°48′17″N1°40′50″W / 53.804720°N 1.680560°W / 53.804720; -1.680560
Grid reference SE211343
Managed by Northern
Transit authority West Yorkshire (Metro)
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeNPD
Fare zone2
Classification DfT category E
History
Opened6 March 1967
Passengers
2018/19Decrease2.svg 0.823 million
Eastbound service with 156498 at New Pudsey in June 2006 New Pudsey Stn.jpg
Eastbound service with 156498 at New Pudsey in June 2006

Eastbound

During Monday to Saturday daytimes, there are four trains an hour to Leeds; in the evenings this service runs twice hourly. One train each hour continues beyond Leeds to York and a second to Selby. On Sundays there is a thrice hourly service with one train each hour continuing to York. From the winter 2019 timetable change, a new service to Hull via Selby has been introduced in place of the former Huddersfield - Bradford - Leeds service (which now only runs on Sundays), restoring through journey opportunities to local stations east of Leeds that were removed in December 2018.

Westbound

During Monday to Saturday daytimes there are four trains an hour to Bradford Interchange and Halifax. Two trains each hour continue to Manchester Victoria (one limited stop, the other serving all stations to Todmorden, then Rochdale only and now running through to Chester), one runs to Blackpool North via Blackburn and one terminates at Halifax. The service is thrice-hourly in the evenings with two trains per hour running to Manchester Victoria (one to Chester) and to Blackpool North. [5] From the December 2019 timetable change, Huddersfield passengers now need to change at Bradford as the current through service has been curtailed there on weekdays and Saturdays (though the overall service pattern will remain unchanged, with a Hull to Halifax service taking its place). On Sundays, there are four trains per hour - two to Manchester and one Blackpool North and Huddersfield. One of the Manchester trains now runs through to Chester.

The next bus stops are on Stanningley Bypass (express services between Bradford and Leeds and local services between Pudsey Owlcotes Centre and Leeds), in Bradford Road (services to Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax). A stop for the frequent service between Pudsey and Seacroft is located at the corner of Bradford Road and Old Road, approximately 0.4 mi (0.64 km) from the station. [6]

New Pudsey station on television

The station was featured in a 1969 Monty Python's Flying Circus sketch (Science Fiction Sketch/Man Turns Into Scotsman) in which Harold Potter (Michael Palin) is turned into a Scotsman by creatures from the planet Skyron in the galaxy of Andromeda. Graham Chapman and Eric Idle (with Idle in drag) briefly appear on Platform 1 early in the sketch as Mr and Mrs Samuel Brainsample. After the camera pans off Chapman and Idle, Palin is shown walking up the ramp from the platform toward town. At the beginning of the sketch, reference is made to the alien visitors coming "to conquer and destroy the very heart of civilisation", with a fade-in to the sign reading "New Pudsey". Laughter follows. [7]

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References

  1. ↑ New Pudsey station facilities National Rail Enquiries; Retrieved 30 November 2016
  2. ↑ Bairstow, Martin (1999). Great Northern railway in the West Riding. [S.l.]: Bairstow. p. 94. ISBN   1-871944-19-8.
  3. ↑ Stanningley GNR station, on the Leeds-Bradford line, opened in 1854; was renamed Stanningley for Farsley and then named Stanningley again in 1961.
  4. ↑ "Leeds to Bradford (GNR). 1854 - Present. Great Northern Railway". Lost Railways West Yorkshire. Retrieved 6 November 2016.
  5. ↑ GB National Rail Timetable May 2023, Table 37
  6. ↑ "Bus timetables". Metro. Transport for West Yorkshire. 2016. Archived from the original on 28 June 2017. Retrieved 8 November 2016. - Services 8, 9, 14, 16, 72, 88, 508, X6
  7. ↑ Ib Rasmussen. "Episode Seven: You're no fun any more".
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