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Marsden railway station
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| Location | |||
| Place | Marsden | ||
| Local authority | Kirklees | ||
| Operations | |||
| Managed by | Northern Rail | ||
| Platforms in use | 3 | ||
| Annual Passenger Usage | |||
| 2004/05 ** | 0.100 million | ||
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| PTE | West Yorkshire (Metro) | ||
| Zone | 5 | ||
| History | |||
| Key dates | Opened 1849 | ||
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| Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Marsden (source) | |||
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Marsden railway station serves the village of Marsden near Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, England. The station is on the Huddersfield Line, operated by Northern Rail and is about 7 miles (11 km) west of Huddersfield station. It was opened in 1849 and is the last station before the West Yorkshire boundary with Greater Manchester.
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The station has three platforms which, unusually, each have their own entrance and exit. Platforms 1 and 2 are accessed by separate flights of stairs from the road overbridge which crosses the line to the west of the station. Platform 3 is accessed from the same road by a bridge across the nearby canal. Only platform 3 has step-free access to the street. Other than simple shelters on the platforms, there are no station buildings and the station is unmanned.
The station is situated about half a mile (0.8 km) to the east of the entrance to the Standedge rail and canal tunnels. The tunnel entrance, with its exhibition and boat trips, can easily be reached by walking along the towpath of the Huddersfield Narrow Canal, which runs adjacent to the station. The station's former goods yard is now the headquarters of the National Trust's Marsden Moor Estate, and the goods shed contains a public exhibition, Welcome to Marsden, which gives an overview of the area and its transport history.[1]
There was formerly another area of sidings situated to the south of the railway and canal, to the west of the station, which was originally built to accommodate the heavy traffic generated during the building of the reservoirs in the nearby Wessenden Valley. The steeply graded Huddersfield Corporation Waterworks Railway connected these sidings to the reservoir works. The area is now a heavily wooded country park, but an abutment of the long demolished bridge by which the waterworks railway crossed the River Colne can still be found amongst the vegetation.[2]
From Monday to Saturday, Marsden is served by an hourly Northern Rail service from Manchester Victoria station to Huddersfield station. On Sundays, a two-hourly service to Leeds station originates at Marsden.
The more frequent TransPennine Express service, from Manchester Piccadilly station and points west to Huddersfield station and points east, passes through Marsden without stopping.
| Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
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| Greenfield | Northern Rail Huddersfield Line |
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- ^ Marsden Moor - What to see and do. National Trust. Retrieved on December 24, 2006.
- ^ Botwell, Harold D (September 1979). Reservoir Railways of the Yorkshire Pennines. The Oakwood Press. ISBN 0853612420.
- Train times and station information for Marsden railway station from National Rail
- Street map and aerial photo of Marsden railway station from Multimap.com
- A walk between Marsden Station and Standedge Tunnel from TripsByTrain.com