How does your station grow?
Posted: March 30, 2012 Filed under: marketing, News, statistics, timetable, train service Leave a comment »The latest station footfall statistics have just been published for the year 2010-11.
Mytholmroyd had 147,660 Entries and Exits during the year -
an increase of 10.8%.
This was most welcome after the reduction the previous year – probably due to the negative publicity regarding ‘losing half our trains’.
We still have two trains per hour to the main centres of Leeds and Manchester, for which we should be thankful to Northern Rail and Metro.
The volunteers of the Station Partnership are promoting the use of the station and the excellent train service – by their station improvement work and by the distribution of timetables etc.
We would like to see two trains per hour to Halifax and Bradford – and we continue to seek better connections at Hebden Bridge and Sowerby Bridge.
The following are some charts which show how Mytholmroyd fits into the Calder Valley rail scene.
More data will be produced in the near future.
In the meantime, any queries please do not hesitate to email on – myt.station@btinternet.com
Be Train Spotted !
Posted: March 4, 2011 Filed under: marketing, sponsorship Leave a comment »
You are invited to help us keep the village railway station looking good both for visitors and local residents.
For just £50 your A4 plaque will be displayed on the station platform during 2011.
There are over 150,000 people using the station each year – and over 4 times that number are on the trains that stop (four times per hour) at Mytholmroyd.
Please contact Geoff Mitchell on (01422) 885154 for further details.
Frozen Points ? Now frozen Pens ! Car Park ?
Posted: January 7, 2011 Filed under: About the Partnership, car parking, community, marketing, members volunteers, station partnership Leave a comment »Stop Press !
The Haste Report was presented to the Town Council recommending a Station Car Park.
The Town Council have decided to follow this up further.
The valiant train users from Mytholmroyd faced frozen points and snow drifts during their recent journeys.
Just when they thought things were getting back to normal, station users from 6am had to face the clipboard-wielding members of Mytholmroyd Station Partnership.
On behalf of Hebden Royd Town Council, volunteers from the station group have been out since dawn ascertaining whether there is any demand for a car park in the old goods yard at Mytholmroyd.
The hundreds of completed questionnaires have been sent to transport specialists Haste Partnership of York who will analyse and report to the Town Council in early January.
Commenting on the tight timescale, the project has to be completed by 5th January 2011, Richard Haste said “ideally we would have liked more than four and one half weeks to carry out this sort of study but we recognise the timing pressures on budget setting and will pull out all the stops to meet the deadline we’ve been set“.
In the meantime, Geoff Mitchell, 
Chairman of the Station Partnership, thanks everyone who has participated in this Survey for their sense of humour – especially when the ink froze in the pens due to the minus 9 degrees!
A taste of what’s to come?
Posted: December 1, 2009 Filed under: marketing Leave a comment »The following might be of interest to those who are predicting how generous the Treasury is going to be towards public transport over the coming years.
http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/d/wintersupps_dft_0910.pdf
