Leeds-Bradford Lines

The Leeds-Bradford Lines services are those included in the West Yorkshire Metro area system of Lines. Metro sums them up as being:

• Not strictly a 'line', but a composite timetable of all the services than run between Leeds and Bradford Forster Square, Leeds and Shipley, Shipley and Bradford Forster Square, plus those ... between Leeds and Bradford Interchange.

Services involved

The services include those on the following Lines:

• Caldervale Line
• Wharfedale Line
• Airedale Line

Places served

Those services serve the following places from Leeds City station, to which West Yorkshire MetroCards are available; there are two routes:

• to Bradford Interchange was on the Great Northern Railway (GNR) line; some stations are closed:
  • Holbeck Low Level station
  • Armley and Wortley
  • Bramley
  • New Pudsey
  • Stanningley for Farsley
  • Laisterdyke
  • Bradford Interchange station: was Bradford Exchange - joint GNR/Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway owned
• to Bradford Forster Square Midland Railway owned; many stations closed, served the following places:
  • Armley
  • Kirkstall
  • Newlay and Horsforth
  • Calverley and Rodley
  • Apperley Bridge and Rawdon
  • Shipley
  • Frizinghall
  • Manningham (closed 1965)
  • Bradford Forster Square station

External links

• Timetable and map

Railway lines in Northern England:
Main lines:	Cross-Country Route   East Coast Main Line   Midland Main Line   West Coast Main Line  Chester-Manchester Line    Hope Valley Line   Liverpool-Manchester Line    Manchester-Preston Line   Settle-Carlisle Railway
Commuter lines:	Airedale Line Blackburn-Bolton Line   Caldervale Line   Mid-Cheshire Line   Dearne Valley Line    East Lancashire Line   Glossop Line   Hallam Line   Harrogate Line   Huddersfield Line Kirkby Branch Line    Lancaster-Heysham Line   Leeds-Bradford Lines   Liverpool-Wigan Line    Manchester Airport Line    Manchester-Southport Line   Northern Line   Oldham Loop Line   Northallerton-Eaglescliffe Line    Ormskirk Branch Line   Pontefract Line   Sheffield-Hull Line   Sheffield-Lincoln Line   Stockport-Stalybridge Line    Wakefield Line   Wharfedale Line   Wirral Line   York & Selby Lines  York-Scarborough Line
Rural lines:	Barton Line   Borderlands Line   Buxton Line   Cumbrian Coast Line   Doncaster-Lincoln Line    Durham Coast Line   Esk Valley Line   Tees Valley Line   Furness Line   Hull-York Line     Oxenholme-Windermere Line   Penistone Line   Ribble Valley Line   Newcastle and Carlisle Railway    Yorkshire Coast Line