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The Leeds-Bradford Lines services are those included in the West Yorkshire Metro area system of Lines. Metro sums them up as being:

• Not strictly a 'line', but a composite timetable of all the services than run between Leeds and Bradford Forster Square, Leeds and Shipley, Shipley and Bradford Forster Square, plus those ... between Leeds and Bradford Interchange.

[edit] Services involved

The services include those on the following Lines:

• Caldervale Line
• Wharfedale Line
• Airedale Line

[edit] Places served

Those services serve the following places from Leeds City station, to which West Yorkshire MetroCards are available; there are two routes:

• to Bradford Interchange was on the Great Northern Railway (GNR) line; some stations are closed:
  • Holbeck Low Level station
  • Armley and Wortley
  • Bramley
  • New Pudsey
  • Stanningley for Farsley
  • Laisterdyke
  • Bradford Interchange station: was Bradford Exchange - joint GNR/Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway owned
• to Bradford Forster Square Midland Railway owned; many stations closed, served the following places:
  • Armley
  • Kirkstall
  • Newlay and Horsforth
  • Calverley and Rodley
  • Apperley Bridge and Rawdon
  • Shipley
  • Frizinghall
  • Manningham (closed 1965)
  • Bradford Forster Square station

[edit] External links

• Timetable and map

edit Railway lines in Northern England:
Main lines:	Cross-Country Route   East Coast Main Line   Midland Main Line   West Coast Main Line  Hope Valley Line   Liverpool-Manchester Line    Manchester-Preston Line   Settle-Carlisle Railway
Commuter lines:	Airedale Line Blackburn-Bolton Line   Caldervale Line   Mid-Cheshire Line   Dearne Valley Line    East Lancashire Line   Glossop Line   Hallam Line   Harrogate Line   Huddersfield Line Kirkby Branch Line    Lancaster-Heysham Line   Leeds-Bradford Lines   Liverpool-Wigan Line    Manchester Airport Line    Manchester-Southport Line   Northern Line   Oldham Loop Line   Northallerton-Eaglescliffe Line    Ormskirk Branch Line   Pontefract Line   Sheffield-Hull Line   Sheffield-Lincoln Line   Stockport-Stalybridge Line    Wakefield Line   Warrington Link Line   Wharfedale Line   Wirral Line   York & Selby Lines   York-Scarborough Line
Rural lines:	Barton Line   Borderlands Line   Buxton Line   Cumbrian Coast Line   Doncaster-Lincoln Line    Durham Coast Line   Esk Valley Line   Tees Valley Line   Furness Line   Hull-York Line     Oxenholme-Windermere Line   Penistone Line   Ribble Valley Line   Newcastle and Carlisle Railway    Yorkshire Coast Line