Shipley train station

You can reach 46 stations directly from Shipley on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Bradford Forster Square, with 181 trains a day.

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Shipley is the nearest station for postcodes in BD18. Check your own postcode.

46 direct destinations
461st busiest in Britain
Staffed full time
Step-free in part
150 parking spaces
15 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Shipley

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

Destination	Weekday	Saturday	Sunday
Bradford Forster Square	181	181	98
Leeds	171	172	97
Frizinghall	167	167	86
Bingley	158	159	83
Keighley	159	160	83
Skipton	159	160	83
Cononley	129	129	60
Crossflatts	129	129	60
Saltaire	129	129	60
Steeton and Silsden	132	132	60
Apperley Bridge	67	67	31
Kirkstall Forge	67	67	31
Ben Rhydding	53	53	28
Baildon	53	53	28
Burley-in-Wharfedale	53	53	28
Guiseley	53	53	28
Ilkley	53	53	28
Menston	53	53	28
Hellifield	31	32	22
Gargrave	29	29	17
Long Preston	28	28	16
Appleby	16	16	12
Carlisle	16	16	12
Doncaster	14	14	12
London King's Cross	15	15	12
Kirkby Stephen	16	16	12
Newark Northgate	14	14	12
Settle	18	19	12
Stevenage	13	13	12
Wakefield Westgate	15	15	12
Armathwaite	15	15	11
Dent	14	14	11
Garsdale	16	16	11
Horton-in-Ribblesdale	16	17	11
Langwathby	15	15	11
Lazonby and Kirkoswald	15	15	11
Ribblehead	18	19	11
Bentham	14	14	10
Carnforth	14	14	10
Clapham	14	14	10

and 15 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Shipley

Shipley is on the Airedale Line and the Airedale and Wharfedale lines, each of which has its own page with the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Shipley station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Shipley 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 Shipley station is

1,195,542 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 461st busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 329,396 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Shipley and Leeds than any other pair: 609,928 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.