Kirkstall Forge train station
You can reach 12 stations directly from Kirkstall Forge on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Leeds, with 67 trains a day.
See Kirkstall Forge on the map
- 12 direct destinations
- 1,013th busiest in Britain
- Unstaffed
- Step-free throughout
- 120 parking spaces
- 1 bus stop nearby
Direct trains from Kirkstall Forge
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leeds | 67 | 67 | 31 |
| Shipley | 67 | 67 | 31 |
| Apperley Bridge | 66 | 66 | 31 |
| Bradford Forster Square | 53 | 53 | 30 |
| Frizinghall | 53 | 53 | 30 |
| Bingley | 14 | 14 | 1 |
| Cononley | 14 | 14 | 1 |
| Crossflatts | 14 | 14 | 1 |
| Keighley | 14 | 14 | 1 |
| Saltaire | 14 | 14 | 1 |
| Skipton | 14 | 14 | 1 |
| Steeton and Silsden | 14 | 14 | 1 |
Lines serving Kirkstall Forge
Kirkstall Forge 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 Kirkstall Forge station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Kirkstall Forge station on 317 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 61 paths on the Wednesday, 20 paths on the Saturday and 4 paths on the Sunday. 25 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 06:00 to 07:00 on the Monday, with 8 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.
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Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless
How busy Kirkstall Forge station is
378,822 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,013th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Kirkstall Forge and Leeds than any other pair: 237,898 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.
Nearest other stations
- Headingley 1.4 miles
- Bramley 1.4 miles
- Horsforth 1.6 miles
- Burley Park 2.2 miles
- New Pudsey 2.6 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Kirkstall Forge, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Newlay and Horsforth · 0.4 miles
- Horsforth Woodside · 0.8 miles
- Kirkstall · 1.1 miles
- Calverley and Rodley · 1.6 miles
- Stanningley · 2.1 miles
- Leeds/Bradford Airport · 2.2 miles
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Facilities at Kirkstall Forge station
Kirkstall Forge is unstaffed, with step-free access to the whole station.
Parking at Kirkstall Forge station
- Station car park 120 spaces
free
From National Rail's station record, last updated 26 June 2026.
Getting to Kirkstall Forge station
Kirkstall Forge station is in Leeds, Yorkshire and The Humber, and is run by Northern Trains.
The nearest motorway junction is M621 J2 (Elland Road Interchange), 3.9 miles south-east.
1 bus stop is within a short walk, the nearest being Great Exhibition Way.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Kirkstall Forge 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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