Bingley railway station

"BIY" redirects here. For other uses, see BIY (disambiguation).

Bingley is a grade II listed^[1] railway station that serves the market town of Bingley in West Yorkshire, England. It is located 13.5 miles (21.7 km) from Leeds and 5.5 miles (8.9 km) away from Bradford Forster Square, on the Airedale line; services are operated by Northern Trains.

Bingley
General information
Location	Bingley, City of Bradford England
Coordinates	53.8487°N 1.8372°W / 53.8487; -1.8372
Grid reference	SE108391
Managed by	Northern Trains
Transit authority	West Yorkshire (Metro)
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	BIY
Fare zone	3
Classification	DfT category D
Key dates
1847	Original station opened
1892	Present station opened
Passengers
2018/19	1.207 million
2019/20	1.173 million
2020/21	0.320 million
2021/22	0.807 million
2022/23	0.920 million
Listed Building – Grade II
Feature	Bingley Station
Designated	15 April 2019
Reference no.	1460848[1]
Location
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

History

Bingley station in 1961

The Leeds and Bradford Railway opened the Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway from Shipley to Keighley on 16 March 1847.^[2] Bingley station opened on the first day and remained the only intermediate station until Saltaire was built in 1856.

The original station was near the Three Rise Locks on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, but the Midland Railway (who had absorbed the L&BR in 1851) closed the old station and opened the current station on 24 July 1892.^[3] The second station was designed by Charles Trubshaw, who was a Midland Railway architect.^[4] The goods yard and accompanying shed were located to the north of the station, on the down side of the running lines. The shed, which is now in private hands, was taken out of railway use in 1965 and, like the station, is now grade II listed.^[5][6]

The bog north of Bingley station was a headache to the railway builders. It is recorded in the Bradford Observer of 8 March 1847 that "no fewer than 100,000 cubic yards of solid earth and stone have been poured into this insatiable maw of a bog."^[7] The bog has also claimed some of Bingley Grammar School's buildings and the sinking may have given rise to an urban legend about a locomotive and wagons having been swallowed up by the bog. No evidence can be found to attest to this.^[7]

Bingley Tunnel (151 yards) and semaphore painted square; looking south

Immediately south of the station is Bingley Tunnel (151 yards (138 m) long)^[8] against which a semaphore signal was placed for movements towards Shipley. When the line was electrified in 1994, the semaphore signalling was replaced with colour lights at the same time.^[9] The tunnel mouth at Bingley had a painted white patch on it directly behind the semaphore arm, thereby allowing greater recognition for drivers of the signal's position.^[10]

Stationmasters

• John Wilkinson 1846 – 1848 (afterwards station master at Shipley)^[11]
• Joseph Heaton until 1862^[12]
• F. Cavanah 1862 - 1864^[12]
• A. Wilcock from 1864
• Charles Darnell ca. 1870 - 1874^[13]
• George Alfred Wright 1874^[13] - 1884^[14] (afterwards station master at St Albans)
• W. Brown 1874 - 1890^[14]
• William Grundy 1890^[14] - 1913^[15]
• Joseph Hartley 1913 – 1928^[16]
• W. Parrington 1928 – 1931^[17]
• Wallace Raymond Graham 1931 – 1938^[18] (formerly station master at Earby)
• Frederick Orbell 1938 – 1942^[19] (formerly station master at Oxenhope)
• L. Hamer 1942 – 1953^[20]
• Frank Sutcliffe 1953^[21] – 1956 (formerly station master at Fitzwilliam and Nostell, afterwards station master at Hebden Bridge)
• E. Riggot from 1956^[22]

Accidents

A report in the Lancashire Gazette in 1847 states that a freight train from Leeds to Lancaster went through the station at 20 miles per hour (32 km/h) and hit some stationary freight wagons on the main line. Three wagons were completely destroyed whilst a fourth wagon and the locomotive were badly damaged.^[7]

In 2013, an unoccupied car ended up on the line just south of Bingley station and was hit at 8:45 pm by a Leeds to Skipton service.^[23]

Facilities

The station is staffed part-time (except evenings and Sundays) – the booking office is sited in the main entrance at street level and is linked to the platforms via ramps, footbridge and a lift. Ticket machines are also provided.^[24] There are waiting rooms on each platform, with passenger information screens and PA system offering train running information.

Services

Northern Trains Route 7
v t e
Settle & Carlisle & Bentham lines
Carlisle Armathwaite Lazonby & Kirkoswald Langwathby Appleby Kirkby Stephen Garsdale Dent Ribblehead Horton-in-Ribblesdale Settle Heysham Port Morecambe Bare Lane Lancaster Carnforth Wennington Bentham Clapham Giggleswick Long Preston Hellifield Gargrave Skipton Keighley Bingley Shipley Leeds

Bingley is served by the following routes, operated by Northern Trains:^[25]

Airedale line:

• On Mondays to Saturdays, there is a half-hourly service to Leeds and an hourly service to Bradford Forster Square, with three trains an hour to Skipton. The Bradford service increases to half-hourly during peak periods, when there is also an additional service per hour to Skipton.
• On Sundays, there is an hourly service to Leeds and to Bradford Forster Square, with two trains per hour in the other direction to Skipton.

Bentham / Settle & Carlisle lines:

• All trains between Leeds and Carlisle, Lancaster and Morecambe also stop at Bingley.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Saltaire		Northern Trains Airedale Line		Crossflatts
Shipley		Northern Trains Settle-Carlisle Line		Keighley
	Historical railways
Saltaire		Midland Railway Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway		Thwaites

See also

• Listed buildings in Bingley

References

Railways Through Airedale & Wharfedale. Martin Bairstow (2004) ISBN 1-871944-28-7

1. Historic England. "Bingley Station, including the south-west platform walkway and Park Road entrance (Grade II) (1460848)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
2. Whitaker, Alan (1986). Bradford Railways Remembered. Clapham: Dalesman Books. p. 13. ISBN 0852068700.
3. Burgess, Neil (2014). The Lost Railways of Yorkshire's West Riding:The Central Section. Catrine: Stenlake. p. 88. ISBN 9781840336573.
4. Leach, Peter; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009). Yorkshire West Riding : Leeds, Bradford and the North (2 ed.). New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 124. ISBN 978-0-300-12665-5.
5. Historic England. "Old railway shed depot, approximately 30 metres south-west of new fire station (Grade II) (1199675)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
6. Biddle, Gordon (2003). Britain's Historic Railway Buildings. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 433. ISBN 0-19-866247-5.
7. "Bingley History, The Mystery of the Locomotive in Bingley Bog". Bingley Hub. Retrieved 13 October 2015.
8. Brailsford, Martyn (2016). Railway Track Diagrams; 2 – Eastern (4 ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. p. 41. ISBN 978-0-9549866-8-1.
9. Marsden, Colin J (April 1992). "Work begins in West Yorkshire and Class 323 mock-up is unveiled". The Railway Magazine. Vol. 138, no. 1092. London: IPC. pp. 10–11. ISSN 0033-8923.
10. Booth, Chris (September 2017). "Exploring the Airedale". Today's Railways (189). Sheffield: Platform 5: 47. ISSN 1475-9713.
11. "The Shipley Railway Stationmaster". Leeds Times. England. 8 January 1887. Retrieved 3 May 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
12. "1859-1866". Midland Railway Miscellaneous Depts: 14. 1914. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
13. "1871-1879 Coaching". Midland Railway Operating, Traffic and Coaching Depts: 29. 1871. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
14. "1881-1898 Coaching". Midland Railway Operating, Traffic and Coaching Depts: 91. 1881. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
15. "Obituary". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. England. 2 June 1913. Retrieved 26 April 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
16. "Bingley Presentation". Shipley Times and Express. England. 24 September 1931. Retrieved 26 April 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
17. "Northern Items". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. England. 3 November 1928. Retrieved 26 April 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
18. "Mr. W.R. Graham. Sudden Death of Bingley Stationmaster". Bradford Observer. England. 2 July 1938. Retrieved 26 April 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
19. "Former Stationmaster dies at Bingley". Bradford Observer. England. 26 November 1942. Retrieved 26 April 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
20. "Gifts to Bingley Stationmaster". Bradford Observer. England. 24 October 1953. Retrieved 26 April 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
21. "Goes to Bingley". Bradford Observer. England. 8 December 1953. Retrieved 26 April 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
22. "Stationmaster at Bingley". Bradford Observer. England. 30 June 1956. Retrieved 26 April 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
23. "Probe continues into crash between car and train in Bingley". Bradford Telegraph and Argus. 12 November 2013. Retrieved 13 October 2015.
24. Bingley station facilities National Rail Enquiries; Retrieved 29 November 2016
25. "Timetables and engineering information for travel with Northern". Northern Railway. 2 June 2024. Retrieved 10 June 2023.

External links

• Train times and station information for Bingley railway station from National Rail