New Pudsey railway station

New Pudsey
Location
Place	Farsley
Local authority	Leeds
Operations
Station code	NPD
Managed by	Northern Rail
Platforms in use	2
Live departures and station information from National Rail
Annual Passenger Usage
2004/05 *	0.424 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	West Yorkshire (Metro)
Zone	2
History
Key dates	Opened December 1967
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at New Pudsey from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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156498 at New Pudsey in June 2006

New Pudsey railway station is in West Yorkshire, England, on the Caldervale Line from Leeds to Bradford Interchange, Halifax, Huddersfield, Manchester Victoria, and Blackpool North. Lying 9 km (5¾ miles) west of Leeds, it serves as a commuter station for the western edge of the Leeds conurbation. This modern station, opened on 6 March 1967, is located in Farsley — 1.6 km (1 mile) north-west of Pudsey town centre. The town was originally served by the Stanningley-Laisterdyke-Bradford loop, opened by the Great Northern Railway. There were two stations on the loop, Pudsey Lowtown and Pudsey Greenside, conveniently located at either end of the town centre (both closed on 15 June 1964 as a result of the Beeching Axe). New Pudsey is situated just under a mile west of the location of Stanningley for Farsley station, which closed on 30 December 1967, having supposedly been replaced by New Pudsey, although the two catchment areas were largely different. The station is staffed and the ticket office is open from 5.55 to 19.00 on Mondays to Saturdays.

Services

Eastbound

During Monday to Saturday daytimes, there is a train every 15 minutes to Leeds; in the evenings this service is half-hourly. Two trains each hour continue beyond Leeds: one to York and the other to Selby. On Sundays there is a half-hourly service with one train each hour continuing to York.

Westbound

During Monday to Saturday daytimes there is a train every 15 minutes to Bradford Interchange and Halifax. Two trains each hour continue to Manchester Victoria, one runs to Blackpool North and one to Wakefield Westgate via Huddersfield. The service is half-hourly in the evenings and on Sundays, with one train per hour running to Manchester Victoria and one to either Blackpool North or Huddersfield.

New Pudsey Station on Television

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The station was featured in a 1969 Monty Python's Flying Circus sketch (Science Fiction Sketch/Man Turns Into Scotsman) in which Harold Potter (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. Palin is later shown in a suit and bowler hat walking up the ramp from the platform toward town. At the beginning of the sketch reference is made to the alien visitors coming "to conquer and destroy the very heart of civilisation", with a fade-in to the sign reading "New Pudsey". Laughter follows.

External links

• 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

Coordinates: 53°48′17″N 1°40′50″W / 53.80472, -1.68056