to complain about an alleged deterioration in cleanliness at the station, particularly in the waiting rooms. The station is used for the overnight servicing of trains. On 9 August 2003, an Arriva Trains Northern employee was seriously assaulted by a group of vandals after challenging two males daubing graffiti on a stabled train. Skipton railway station is currently served by Stagecoach 280 cross-Pennine bus route to Preston via Clitheroe. It has been proposed as the focus of a park-and-ride scheme serving commuters to Lancaster and Leeds. Station masters John Dexter ca. 1851 ca. 1853 William Wilton Barker ca. 1860 - 1864 Thomas Needham Barlow 1864 - 1868 (convicted of embezzlement of company funds) Anderson Wilcock 1868 – 1877 (formerly station master at Newark Castle) Alfred Norman 1877 – 1908 William Coles 1908 – 1921 J. Alderson 1921 – 1933 (formerly station master at Millers Dale) Richard Southworth 1933 – 1945 Richard H. Lamb 1945 – 1949 Maurice M.C. Hughes 1949 – 1953 Robert Henry Ruddock 1953 – ???? Services During Monday to Saturday daytime, there is a half-hourly service to both Leeds and Bradford Forster Square. There are additional trains to Leeds during the morning peak and in the opposite direction in the evening rush hour. In the evenings there is a half-hourly service to Leeds, and an hourly service to Bradford Forster Square. From May 2022, the weekday daytime service to Bradford has been temporarily reduced to hourly for operational/staffing reasons. On Sundays there is an hourly service to Leeds and Bradford (the latter upgraded from two-hourly at the December 2017 timetable change). There are also a number of trains each day from Leeds to Carlisle (eight on weekdays and six on Sundays) and to Lancaster or Morecambe (eight on weekdays, five on Sundays; both routes operated by Northern). These usually serve the principal stations only between Leeds & Skipton. On Sundays, one Carlisle service runs to and from – this has operated since the December 2012 timetable change (though previously southbound only until May 2018, with the morning equivalent starting in Sheffield) and is the first through Nottingham service from Skipton since the Nottingham – via Leeds trains were withdrawn in May 1982. A second working from Nottingham and return to was added at the December 2018 timetable change but withdrawn in May 2019. Services to & from Carlisle were curtailed at from 9 February until 26 June