Ilkley railway station

Ilkley
The view from the footbridge
Location
Place	Ilkley
Local authority	City of Bradford
Coordinates	53°55′30″N 1°49′19″W / 53.925°N 1.822°W / 53.925; -1.822Coordinates: 53°55′30″N 1°49′19″W / 53.925°N 1.822°W / 53.925; -1.822
Grid reference	SE117476
Operations
Station code	ILK
Managed by	Northern
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	D
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2011/12	1.374 million
2012/13	1.212 million
2013/14	1.253 million
2014/15	1.299 million
2015/16	1.304 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	West Yorkshire Metro
Zone	4
History
Key dates	Opened August 1865 (August 1865)
National Rail – UK railway stations
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Ilkley from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

Ilkley railway station is a railway station in Ilkley, in the City of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. On the Wharfedale Line, it is served by Class 333 electric trains run by Northern, which also manages the station.

During Monday to Saturday, daytime services run to/from Leeds and Bradford twice per hour. In the evening, services are hourly to/from both Leeds and Bradford Forster Square. On Sundays, services are hourly to/from Leeds and every two hours to/from Bradford. Sunday services to Bradford will be increased to hourly once the new Northern Rail franchise operator Arriva Rail North takes over in April 2016, whilst there will also be improvements to weekday evening services and longer trains introduced to help combat overcrowding on the route.

Ilkley station was opened in August 1865 as the western terminus of the Otley and Ilkley Joint Railway (Midland and North Eastern railways). The station buildings were designed by the Chief Architect to the Midland Railway John Holloway Sanders. This railway offered two alternative routes to Leeds - either via Otley and the Leeds Northern/NER line through Headingley or via Guiseley and the former Leeds and Bradford Railway along the Aire Valley. The Midland subsequently built a branch from the latter route to Shipley in 1876 to provide a direct line from the town to Bradford Forster Square. A milepost on the former Platform 4 indicated that the station was 211.25 miles from London St. Pancras.