Horsforth Railway Station

Horsforth railway station is on the Harrogate Line 9 km (5.75 miles) north west of Leeds station and the final stop in West Yorkshire towards Harrogate.

The station serves the Leeds suburbs Horsforth, Cookridge and Tinshill and was opened in 1849. In 1969 it was unstaffed and all the buildings demolished as part of the general retrenchment of railways in West Yorkshire at that time. Happily the North Eastern Railway signal box survived and is still in use today.

Growing traffic congestion in Leeds promoted an increased traffic from Horsforth in the 1990s, and in 2002/3 Horsforth station was extensively redeveloped to better cater for the greater number of passengers. New waiting rooms were built on both platforms, along with a ticket office on the Leeds (Up) platform which opened on 16 July 2003. It is open from 0610-1900 Mon-Sat and 0930-1630 Sun. The station is roughly 45 minutes by foot from Leeds Bradford International Airport and is roughly 5 minutes in the car. Plans have just been announced for a new nearby station at Horsforth Woodside.

Services

Monday to Saturday daytimes, is generally a half-hourly service from Horsforth southbound to Leeds and a half-hourly service northbound to Knaresborough with one train per hour onwards to York. In peak hours, there are extra services to and from Leeds.

Evenings and Sundays there is an hourly service in each direction.

On Monday to Friday mornings there is one direct service to London King's Cross. At all other times, travellers to/from London must change at Leeds.

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