Huddersfield Line - Definition and Overview

The Huddersfield line is a railway from Leeds to Liverpool and Manchester in England

Within West Yorkshire it stops at the following stations (ordered going away from Leeds): Metrocard Zone 1

• Leeds

Metrocard Zone 2

• Cottingley
• Morley
• Batley

Metrocard Zone 3

• Dewsbury
• Ravensthorpe
  • Wakefield Kirkgate (Also on the Pontefract and Hallam Lines)
  • Wakefield Westgate (Also on the Pontefract and Wakefield Lines
• Mirfield

Metrocard Zone 4

• Deighton
  • Brighouse (Also on the Caldervale line)

Matrocard Zone 5

• Huddersfield (Also on the Caldervale and Penistone lines)
• Slaithwaite
• Marsden

Outside of West Yorkshire its stops include the following stations:

• Greenfield
• Mossley
• Stalybridge

On the line to Manchester Victoria

• Ashton-under-Lyne
• Manchester Victoria

On the line to Liverpool Lime Street

• Manchester Piccadilly
  • Manchester Airport
• Manchester Oxford Road
• Liverpool Lime Street

History

Before 1921 it formed part of the London and North Western Railway. Between 1921 and 1948 it formed part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway after which the network was nationalised.