Description
The station has a car park, bicycle parking and a pick up point that are standard at many stations. There is also a staffed ticket booth with option of paying for a ticket using a ticket machine. A lift to the platform is available for wheelchair users however there are currently no lower counters for easy access to buy tickets.
Entry to the station is via a cobbled road bridge from opposite the bottom of Horton Street. Passengers arriving by foot who have walked down Winding Road from the bus station are forced to cross over this bridge to access the right hand pavement, which is the only pedestrian access. The decision to allow car parking on the left side some years ago makes for safety issues at peak period times.
A campaign, run by the local newspaper the Halifax Evening Courier was started to get the station refurbished. The paper said that it wanted a station fit "for the 21st century" and that its current state was "disgraceful". Due to the amount of support generated, Network Rail and Northern Rail agreed to do so.
Work on a £2.5 million refurbishment scheme has seen the station footbridge and canopies repaired, new glazing and lighting installed and repainting of the structures and was begun in May 2009. The second phase of the refurbishment, covering the platform and the concourse, was completed in November 2010.
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