Brighouse train station

You can reach 53 stations directly from Brighouse on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Leeds, with 73 trains a day.

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• 53 direct destinations
• 996th busiest in Britain
• Unstaffed
• Step-free in part
• 65 parking spaces
• 7 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Brighouse

Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.

and 13 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Brighouse

Brighouse is on the Caldervale Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Brighouse station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Brighouse station on 182 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 35 paths on the Wednesday, 13 paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 55 of them run whatever the traffic; the rest are held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move. The busiest hour is 12:00 to 13:00 on the Monday, with 5 paths booked.

The grid counts the goods trains booked to pass in each hour of the week beginning 12 October 2026: the darker the hour, the more paths, and a dot marks an hour with at least one path that runs regardless. Engineering trains, empty stock and light engines are not counted. Across Britain only about a fifth of booked freight paths run on a given day, so a booked path is a possibility rather than a promise; the freight statistics page explains how that is measured.

Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless

How busy Brighouse station is

387,592 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 996th busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 36,630 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Brighouse and Leeds than any other pair: 130,898 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: 25 stations instead of 53, a drop of about 53%. Saturday runs to 36.

Changing from 14 April 2027

From 14 April 2027, Brighouse gains 7 destinations including Eaglescliffe, Redcar Central, Yarm, Thirsk, Middlesbrough, Northallerton.

Nearest other stations

• Halifax 3.4 miles
• Huddersfield 3.4 miles
• Low Moor 3.8 miles
• Mirfield 4.0 miles
• Lockwood 4.5 miles

Closed stations nearby

Former stations within 8 km of Brighouse, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.

• Clifton Road · 0.4 miles
• Bailiff Bridge · 1.7 miles
• Lightcliffe · 2.0 miles
• Cooper Bridge · 2.1 miles
• Bradley · 2.2 miles
• Hipperholme · 2.4 miles

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Facilities at Brighouse station

Brighouse is unstaffed, with step-free access to part of the station.

Parking at Brighouse station

• Station Car Park 65 spaces
  free

Cycle parking: 3 spaces (lockers).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 8 September 2026.

Getting to Brighouse station

Brighouse station is in Calderdale, Yorkshire and The Humber, and is run by Northern Trains.

The nearest motorway junction is M62 J25 (Clifton Interchange), 1.0 miles south-east.

7 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Brighouse Rail Station.

Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.

Brighouse 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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