Hellifield railway station
Hellifield 
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Hellifield railway station
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| Location | |
| Place | Hellifield |
| Local authority | Craven |
| Coordinates | 54°00′40″N 2°13′41″W / 54.011000°N 2.228000°WCoordinates: 54°00′40″N 2°13′41″W / 54.011000°N 2.228000°W |
| Grid reference | SD851572 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | HLD |
| Managed by | Northern |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | F2 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 27,298 |
| 2012/13 |
 24,880 |
| 2013/14 |
26,054 |
| 2014/15 |
29,490 |
| 2015/16 |
26,896 |
| History | |
| 1849 | first station opened |
| 1 June 1880 | resited |
| Listed status | |
| Listed feature | Hellifield Station Main Passenger Building |
| Listing grade | Grade II listed |
| Entry number | 1131702 |
| Added to list | 7 April 1977 |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Hellifield from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Hellifield railway station serves the village of Hellifield in North Yorkshire, England.
The station is 36 1⁄4 miles (58 km) north-west of Leeds on the Leeds to Morecambe Line towards Carlisle and Morecambe. The Ribble Valley Line from Blackburn also joins the Leeds to Morecambe Line at Hellifield which is managed by Northern, who provide all passenger train services. It is unstaffed, although the buildings are in private use and open to the public at certain times.
The first Hellifield railway station was opened by the "Little" North Western Railway in 1849. It was a modest structure, similar to those at Gargrave and Long Preston and sited 1⁄4 mile (0.4 km) to the south of the present one. A much larger replacement (the current station) was built by the Midland Railway to the designs of architect Charles Trubshaw and opened on 1 June 1880, immediately to the north of the junction of the line from Leeds and the newly completed Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway route from Blackburn via Clitheroe. It soon became a busy junction (as it was now located on the Midland Railway's main line from London to Scotland), with trains going to:
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