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Hellifield Station September 2007

The station is 36 1⁄4 miles (58 km) north-west of Leeds on the Leeds to Morecambe/Carlisle Line towards Carlisle and Morecambe. (The line seperate just before Settle, with one going to settle and the other to Giggleswick.) The Ribble Valley Line from Blackburn also joins the Leeds to Morecambe Line at Hellifield which is managed by Northern Rail, who provide all passenger train services. It is unstaffed, although the buildings are in private use and open to the public at certain times.

History:
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.[1] A much larger replacement (the current station) was built by the Midland Railway and opened on 1 June 1880,[2] immediately to the north of the junction of the line from Leeds and the newly completed Lancashire and 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: Clitheroe, Skipton, Leeds, Blackburn, Settle, Carlisle,Manchester, Morecambe.
It was also the location of a busy locomotive depot and a large goods yard.

The line from Blackburn had its local passenger service withdrawn on 10 September 1962,[3] but it remains open for goods traffic and periodic diversions when the West Coast main line is closed north of Preston for engineering work. The adjacent locomotive shed closed the following year and local trains from the station to Carlisle ended in May 1970, although it continued to be served by expresses to and from Glasgow until 1975. Thereafter it was downgraded to unstaffed halt status and served only by stopping trains between Leeds and Morecambe.

Visits:
Me and my brother Richard visited in 2007 see out visit here.