Berry Brow railway station

Berry Brow
National Rail
General information
LocationBerry Brow, Kirklees
England
Coordinates53°37′16″N 1°47′37″W / 53.6210°N 1.7935°W / 53.6210; -1.7935
Grid referenceSE137138
Managed byNorthern Trains
Transit authorityWest Yorkshire (Metro)
Platforms1
Other information
Station codeBBW
Fare zone5
ClassificationDfT category F2
History
Opened9 October 1989[1]
Passengers
2019/20Decrease 24,544
2020/21Decrease 9,694
2021/22Increase 21,828
2022/23Increase 25,202
2023/24Increase 26,600
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Berry Brow railway station serves the Huddersfield suburban villages of Berry Brow, Taylor Hill, Armitage Bridge and Newsome in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire.

The present single-platform station was opened by British Rail in 1989. It lies some 2.25 miles (3.6 km) south of Huddersfield railway station on the Penistone Line between Huddersfield and Sheffield and is managed by Northern Trains.

The original Berry Brow station was 330 yards (300 m) from the present location, in the direction of Huddersfield. It opened on 1 July 1850 and closed on 2 July 1966.[1]

The original station in 1961
  1. ^ a b Bairstow, Martin (1993). The Huddersfield & Sheffield Junction Railway. Martin Bairstow. ISBN 1-871944-08-2.