Heaton Lodge Junction

Heaton Lodge Junction
Heaton Lodge Junction
	Heaton Lodge East Junction; the train is coming off the spur built on the formation of the Leeds New Line
Overview
Status	Open
Owner	Network Rail
Locale	Mirfield, West Yorkshire, England
Service
Type	Railway junction
Services	Calder Valley line; Huddersfield line; Leeds New Line (1900-1965); ;
Operator(s)	Grand Central; Arriva Rail North; TransPennine Express; Various freight operators; ;
Ridership	50 million (yearly average)
History
Opened	1847 (as a junction)
Technical
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Heaton Lodge Junction 1988-c. 2030
Heaton Lodge Junction 1988-c. 2030

Heaton Lodge Junction is a railway junction on the Trans-Pennine line, which connects Manchester Piccadilly with Leeds via Huddersfield, and the Calder Valley Line through Sowerby Bridge to Wakefield. The line and junctions were historically important as they connected the industrialised areas of Lancashire and Yorkshire.^[2]

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^ "New LMS Signals". The Times. No. 46053. 10 February 1932. p. 14. ISSN 0140-0460.