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New Pudsey railway station
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| New Pudsey | |||
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| Location | |||
| Place | Farsley | ||
| Local authority | Leeds | ||
| Operations | |||
| Managed by | Northern Rail | ||
| Platforms in use | 2 | ||
| Annual Passenger Usage | |||
| 2004/05 ** | 0.424 million | ||
| Passenger Transport Executive | |||
| PTE | West Yorkshire (Metro) | ||
| Zone | 2 | ||
| History | |||
| Key dates | Opened December 1967 | ||
| National Rail - UK railway stations | |||
| Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at New Pudsey (source) | |||
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New Pudsey railway station is in West Yorkshire, England, on the Caldervale Line 9 km (5¾ miles) west of Leeds towards Bradford Interchange, Halifax, Huddersfield, Manchester Victoria and Blackpool North. It serves as a commuter station for the western edge of the Leeds conurbation.
This modern station, opened on March 6th 1967 is located in Farsley 1.8 km away (1.1 miles) to the north-west of Pudsey town centre. The town was originally served by a loop line from the line mentioned above, opened by the Great Northern Railway. There were two stations on the loop: Pudsey Lowtown and Pudsey Greenside located at either end of the town centre. New Pudsey is situated just under a mile west of Stanningley for Farsley station, which closed on 30 December 1967, having supposedly been replaced by New Pudsey though the two catchment areas were largely different.
The station was featured in an 1969 episode of BBC TV's Monty Python's Flying Circus entitled "You're No Fun Anymore" in a sketch (Science Fiction Sketch/Man Turns Into Scotsman) in which Harold Potter (played by 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. At the beginning of the sketch reference is made to the visitors from another world coming "to conquer and destroy the very heart of civilisation", with a fade-in to the sign reading "New Pudsey". Laughter follows.
New Pudsey station is staffed. The ticket office is open from 0555-1900 Monday-Saturday.
During Monday to Saturday daytimes, there is a train every 15 minutes to Leeds; in the evenings this service is every 30 minutes. Two trains an hour continue beyond Leeds: one to York and the other to Selby. On Sundays there is also a half-hourly service with hourly service onwards to York.
Westbound, during Monday to Saturday daytimes there is a train every 15 minutes to Bradford Interchange and Halifax; this operates half-hourly evenings and Sundays. Two trains continue to Manchester Victoria, one to Blackpool North and one to Wakefield Westgate via Huddersfield. On Sundays there is an hourly service to Manchester Victoria and one train per hour to either Blackpool North or Huddersfield.
- Train times and station information for New Pudsey railway station from National Rail
- Street map and aerial photo of New Pudsey railway station from Multimap.com
| Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
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| Bradford Interchange | Northern Rail Caldervale Line |
Bramley | ||
| The town of Pudsey, England |
| Parliament Constituency | Pudsey Bear |
| Geography: Pudsey Beck | New Pudsey Railway Station | Fulneck | Fulneck School | Swinnow | Leeds | West Yorkshire |
| People: Paul Truswell | Len Hutton | Ray Illingworth | Joseph Hiley | John Tunnicliffe | Benjamin Latrobe |
| Former Districts: Farsley | Calverley |
| Other: Pudsey & Bramley Athletics Club | Stanningley bypass | I Love West Leeds Festival |
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