Bradford Forster Square train station
You can reach 32 stations directly from Bradford Forster Square on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Shipley, with 181 trains a day.
See Bradford Forster Square on the map
Bradford Forster Square is the nearest station for postcodes in BD1, BD8, BD2, BD14. Check your own postcode.
- 32 direct destinations
- 384th busiest in Britain
- Staffed part time
- Step-free throughout
- 50 parking spaces
- 9 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Bradford Forster Square
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shipley | 181 | 181 | 98 |
| Frizinghall | 167 | 167 | 86 |
| Leeds | 67 | 67 | 42 |
| Bingley | 55 | 55 | 28 |
| Cononley | 55 | 55 | 28 |
| Crossflatts | 55 | 55 | 28 |
| Keighley | 55 | 55 | 28 |
| Saltaire | 55 | 55 | 28 |
| Skipton | 55 | 55 | 28 |
| Steeton and Silsden | 55 | 55 | 28 |
| Apperley Bridge | 53 | 53 | 30 |
| Ben Rhydding | 53 | 53 | 28 |
| Baildon | 53 | 53 | 28 |
| Burley-in-Wharfedale | 53 | 53 | 28 |
| Guiseley | 53 | 53 | 28 |
| Ilkley | 53 | 53 | 28 |
| Kirkstall Forge | 53 | 53 | 30 |
| Menston | 53 | 53 | 28 |
| London King's Cross | 14 | 14 | 12 |
| Wakefield Westgate | 14 | 14 | 12 |
| Doncaster | 13 | 13 | 12 |
| Newark Northgate | 13 | 13 | 12 |
| Stevenage | 13 | 13 | 12 |
| Bentham | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Carnforth | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Clapham | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Gargrave | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Giggleswick | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Hellifield | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Lancaster | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Long Preston | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Wennington | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Lines serving Bradford Forster Square
Bradford Forster Square is on the Airedale and Wharfedale lines. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Bradford Forster Square station, hour by hour
No freight is booked through or alongside Bradford Forster Square station in the week beginning 12 October 2026. Freight paths stay in the national timetable even when they run only as required, so a station with none booked is one that goods trains do not pass.
How busy Bradford Forster Square station is
1,457,418 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 384th busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 35,780 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Bradford Forster Square and Leeds than any other pair: 406,948 a year. That is where passengers go, which is not always where the most trains go.
Source: Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage, 2024-25. Estimated from ticket sales.
Sundays
Sunday is a different railway here: 23 stations instead of 32, a drop of about 28%. Saturday runs to 32.
Nearest other stations
- Bradford Interchange 0.5 miles
- Frizinghall 1.7 miles
- Shipley 2.6 miles
- New Pudsey 3.0 miles
- Saltaire 3.2 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Bradford Forster Square, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Bradford Adolphus Street · 0.7 miles
- Bradford St James · 0.8 miles
- Manningham · 0.8 miles
- St Dunstans · 0.9 miles
- Bowling closed 1895 · 1.0 miles
- Manchester Road · 1.1 miles
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Facilities at Bradford Forster Square station
Bradford Forster Square is staffed part time, with step-free access to the whole station.
Ticket office: Monday: 06:10 to 19:00 · Friday: 06:10 to 20:00 · Sunday: 08:45 to 18:00
Toilets
Parking at Bradford Forster Square station
- Station Car Park 50 spaces, 4 accessible
£3.30 a day, £13.20 a week
Cycle parking: 13 spaces (lockers).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 2 September 2026.
Getting to Bradford Forster Square station
Bradford Forster Square station is in Bradford, Yorkshire and The Humber, and is run by Northern Trains.
The nearest motorway junction is M606 J3 (Staygate Roundabout), 2.2 miles south.
9 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Forster Square K.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Bradford Forster Square station elsewhere
- National Rail facilities, opening hours and live departures
- Realtime Trains every train calling today, to the minute
- Wikipedia the station's history
- OpenStreetMap the map data this page is built from
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