Mirfield Station – 16th December 2021
To get the Grand Central Trains’s service back to London, I had to travel to Mirfield station. As the ticket was just £11.85, it was probably worth it.
I took these pictures of the station.
Note.
- The station has an unusual layout with a main island platform, where Eastbound trains call and a separate platform for Westbound trains.
- The platform can take a six-car train.
- Facilities are just a rudimentary shelter and a train information board.
- There is a lot of promotion for Mirfield in Bloom.
- Access to the station is up a staircase from the road under the station.
I took shelter in the nearby Navigation Tavern, which was a welcoming pub with lots of beer and food.
These pictures show the underpass and the pub.
This Google Map shows the station and the area.
Note.
- The wide island platform marked with the station symbol.
- Station Road running under the railway.
- The Navigation Tavern between the canal and the railway.
All this is going to change.
With the TransPennine Upgrade, the station will be turned into a modern station.
This diagram clipped from this article on Modern Railways shows the current layout at Mirfield station.
And this shows the future layout.
Note.
- The wide platform will serve both slow lines and all trains stopping at Mirfield station.
- Two fast lines will be created in the space to the South of the current platform.
- I would assume that the fast lines will be electrified with a much higher speed limit.
- Will the slow lines be electrified or will battery-electric power be used?
- There is certainly space on the island platform for some much better facilities.
I also think, that the station can be rebuilt without disrupting services.
Conclusion
As Roy Brooks, who was an infamous estate agent in London in the 1960s, would have said, this is a station with potential.
The Anonymous Widower 
Do you realise that it’s 50 years since Roy Brooks died. I can even now remember the anticipation of opening The Sunday Times (we’d had the News of the World before my father thought a better paper would aid my education) to read the classified ads just to read the hilariously honest property descriptions.
As a socialist Roy Brooks would probably have had something more apposite to describe Mirfield Station particularly at this time of ‘levelling up’ and the Integrated Rail Plan.
Find a collection of his handiwork, entitled Brothel in Pimlico.
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