Leeds Park & Ride

[newmilton]

I have to take my daughter and a friend to an open day at Leeds University on Friday. If I wanted to avoid driving into the city centre, is there a convenient station to the south of Leeds (ideally near the M1) with good parking, where I could leave the car and take the train into the city?

Many thanks.

 

[WestCoast]

Leeds is quite poor for city centre parking.

South of the city and close to the M1 is quite tricky, but Outwood Station is very close to the M1 and has 130 free spaces - roughly 15 minutes journey and £3 adult off-peak day return.

Unfortunately, the car park gets busy early, due to its popularity with city workers.

 

[sonic2009]

South of the city and close to the M1 is quite tricky, but Outwood Station is very close to the M1 and has 130 free spaces - roughly 15 minutes journey and £3 adult off-peak day return.

Unfortunately, the car park gets busy early, due to its popularity with city workers.

fills up by 8:30am apparently.

 

[WestCoast]

fills up by 8:30am apparently.

That's the national rail advice - I'd say it was even earlier than that!

 

[sonic2009]

The White Rose Centre,Leeds has 4,800 spaces is the only place i can think of but you would have to get a bus into Leeds City Centre, and also depends on how long the maximum stay is.

£3.40 for an off peak day ticket after 9:30am valid on First Buses, with Bus 3 or 3a taking 25 mins to Leeds City Centre and buses running every 10mins.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en...w.&biw=1366&bih=665&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl

 

[pdq]

How about Dewsbury? Less than 10 mins off M1 J40, plenty of car parking and 4 tph to Leeds (if you count Northern). Car park is £2 for up to 5hrs and £4 for >5.

 

[YorkshireBear]

Yeah south of leeds is pretty poor, there is woddlesford too but dont know what parking is like there? what about wakefield westgate?

 

[Masbroughlad]

There's a station (Glasshoughton?) which is junction 32 on the M62 - a couple of exits from its junction with the M1. Loads of space there.

 

[bluenoxid]

Wakefield Westgate has a large new car park but it charges. What about Meadowhall??? (don't know if there is any time limited ANPR). Straight off Junction 34, train every 30 minutes in under an hour plus the service via Westgate.

I don't know what time you want to arrive at but from my observations, the traffic is horrendous from J39 onwards.

If you do Glasshoughton and are coming from the south, use the M18 and then A1 to avoid the M1 traffic.

 

[YorkshireBear]

Wakefield Westgate has a large new car park but it charges. What about Meadowhall??? (don't know if there is any time limited ANPR). Straight off Junction 34, train every 30 minutes in under an hour plus the service via Westgate.

I don't know what time you want to arrive at but from my observations, the traffic is horrendous from J39 onwards.

If you do Glasshoughton and are coming from the south, use the M18 and then A1 to avoid the M1 traffic.

yes meadowhall is a good call, not sure about its distance from leeds though, its quite far... that is my train home from uni and it takes 55 minutes and would cost an adult about £12 return(i think)

 

[Crossforth]

White Rose is actually quite good for parking on a weekday (I know this as I currently work there) and there are buses every few mins taking about 15 mins into Leeds

Nearest station is Cottingley but it is a 15-20 min walk away (I do it regularly)

 

[Masbroughlad]

As a slight aside, Park and Ride for Leeds would be good? Preferably by train, but bus could work. Leeds is pretty woeful when it comes to suitable accessibility by public transport. The ideas, innovations and plans are there, the funding isnn't! (read Government always ignoring the North)

 

[WestCoast]

As a slight aside, Park and Ride for Leeds would be good? Preferably by train, but bus could work. Leeds is pretty woeful when it comes to suitable accessibility by public transport. The ideas, innovations and plans are there, the funding isnn't! (read Government always ignoring the North)

Doesn't Leeds already have a park and ride scheme?

The Leeds Scott Hall Road scheme features a park and ride site to the north of the Leeds opened in July, 1998 and caters for 157 cars. The well lit car park is attractively laid out with landscaping and has security features approved by the police. The use of the site will be monitored and additional sites provided if sufficient demand exists.

 

[YorkshireBear]

Doesn't Leeds already have a park and ride scheme?

very few, travel into city centre is woeful at times by bus not helped by monopolisation of leeds bus services by first.....

 

[Masbroughlad]

Doesn't Leeds already have a park and ride scheme?

Not much then?! Can't be that well known unfortunately and scope for more.

Thanks for pointing it out though.

 

[burty76]

Theres a proposal for an "East Leeds Parkway" at, or very near to, the site of the current Micklefield station.

Seems a no-brainer. Right next to the motorway, and a frequent service of Northern and TPE trains to get you into Leeds in about 15 mins.

So obviously it will never be built.

 

[YorkshireBear]

Theres a proposal for an "East Leeds Parkway" at, or very near to, the site of the current Micklefield station.

Seems a no-brainer. Right next to the motorway, and a frequent service of Northern and TPE trains to get you into Leeds in about 15 mins.

So obviously it will never be built.

exactly, i think that alliance rail want to use it or create it.

 

[Sceptre]

Wakefield Westgate has a large new car park but it charges. What about Meadowhall??? (don't know if there is any time limited ANPR). Straight off Junction 34, train every 30 minutes in under an hour plus the service via Westgate.

I don't know what time you want to arrive at but from my observations, the traffic is horrendous from J39 onwards.

If you do Glasshoughton and are coming from the south, use the M18 and then A1 to avoid the M1 traffic.

There's a reasonably priced council car park near Westgate station, but coming from the south you need to turn off just before the station because it's on a one-way road.

 

[spasmj]

There is a sign in Micklefield saying 'Micklefield Station Park & Ride'. I can only assume it's Leeds councils idea of a joke.

 

[142094]

Theres a proposal for an "East Leeds Parkway" at, or very near to, the site of the current Micklefield station.

Seems a no-brainer. Right next to the motorway, and a frequent service of Northern and TPE trains to get you into Leeds in about 15 mins.

So obviously it will never be built.

Still in the planning stages and with the recession Metro have had to make a lot of cuts.

 

[Yorkswatcher]

Adwick is classed as a Leeds park and ride although its miles away.

 

[brompton rail]

Adwick is classed as a Leeds park and ride although its miles away.

By whom?

Adwick is a SYPTE station and I doubt they extended the car park to encourage people to park there and go to Leeds rather than Doncaster or Sheffield.

Selby is a shorter train ride to Leeds than Adwick or Bentley (less full). Meadowhall station car park is pretty full from am peak onwards.

Why not come the whole journey by train?

 

[bluenoxid]

Because the poor sod is going to have to get used to this drive as chauffeur

 

[Yorkswatcher]

By whom?

Adwick is a SYPTE station and I doubt they extended the car park to encourage people to park there and go to Leeds rather than Doncaster or Sheffield.

Selby is a shorter train ride to Leeds than Adwick or Bentley (less full). Meadowhall station car park is pretty full from am peak onwards.

Why not come the whole journey by train?

By the big sign near by on the A1

 

[Welshman]

Because the poor sod is going to have to get used to this drive as chauffeur

But isn't it good to know they still need you?

 

[newmilton]

Thanks for the advice, but in the event I drove all the way. We didn't take the train because a) a friend of my daughter's came too, meaning there were three of us and the fare wasn't competitive; and b) I had to drop my wife off at work on the way, and doing that then getting the train would have further delayed things.

And yes, I may well have to get used to it when she has all her worldly belongings to transport back and forth!

 

[9K43]

How about Dewsbury? Less than 10 mins off M1 J40, plenty of car parking and 4 tph to Leeds (if you count Northern). Car park is £2 for up to 5hrs and £4 for >5.

At Dewsbury Stn there is loads of on street parking in the County Court/Eightlands Road Area, which is unrestricted all the time.EG FREE.
This is within a minutes walk from the down platform which takes you to Leeds.
The up platform is the one with the ticket office and pub on the platform are
Last year I parked my car in the mentioned area from 0500 to 2300hrs, when I went on a Green Charter to Devon.

 

[Grumpy]

The trouble with Leeds is the planners have their heads full of grand schemes that they have no money for and just waste time. Trams, trolleybuses, guided buses, anything but the cheap and cheerful simple bus.

The result is millions squandered on studies but nothing to show for it, as this thread reveals.

Yet a simple trip to York, Durham or Scarborough would show them the solution. Could probably do all three in one day-no need for any fancy foreign jaunts.

Thus a big car park by the motorway on the south side to serve all the cars streaming up the M1 every day, with buses then running into the city centre. Similarly something in the m62 j27/Morley area.
Ditto something by the a64 for traffic from the east, something by the grammar school for the north, cross link the buses and job done.


With regard to the White Rose Centre , that needs a railway station in view of all the visitors and employment both there and the neighbouring office park. Would generate a lot more new passenger journeys that the proposed carbunkle new south entrance at Leeds City station

 

[4SRKT]

Nearest station is Cottingley but it is a 15-20 min walk away (I do it regularly)

Do you use the 07:43 Leeds > Hudds?

 

[Crossforth]

With regard to the White Rose Centre , that needs a railway station in view of all the visitors and employment both there and the neighbouring office park. Would generate a lot more new passenger journeys that the proposed carbunkle new south entrance at Leeds City station

That would be very useful for me certainly and many of us there have said it but with the very close proximity of Cottingley and Morley, it is probably usfeasible unless there is say a shuttle service between Leeds and WRC