Hensall railway station
Hensall Selby England | |
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Coordinates | 53°41′55″N 1°06′52″W / 53.698500°N 1.114500°W |
Grid reference | SE585228 |
Managed by | Northern Trains |
Platforms | 2 |
Other information | |
Station code | HEL |
Classification | DfT category F2 |
History | |
Opened | 1848 |
Passengers | |
2018/19 | 252 |
2019/20 | 170 |
2020/21 | 94 |
2021/22 | 150 |
2022/23 | 376 |
Notes | |
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
Hensall railway station serves the village of
History
The station was built by the Wakefield, Pontefract and Goole Railway, a constituent company of the
Hensall Station was also the site of a small collision in 1949 between a British Railways freight engine and a lorry after failure of a crossing keeper to acknowledge the train and brake van approaching, however it was argued that the signal man never gave the crossing the approaching train signal. It is unknown who caused the incident.[4]
The station featured on an episode of the BBC documentary series Great British Railway Journeys in 2015 (series six, episode 12), which saw presenter Michael Portillo travel on the daily parliamentary train from Knottingley to Goole and alight there.[5]
Facilities
The station is unstaffed and has only basic amenities, though the main buildings are still present (they are now privately owned and feature a number of heritage railway signs).[6] Tickets must be bought in advance or on the train, as there are no ticketing facilities. Only the part of the eastbound platform is used, as the section next to the station house is below standard height (the other is full height for its entire length). A public telephone, two waiting shelters and timetable poster boards are the only other amenities present. Step-free access is available on both platforms.[7]
Services
Hensall has only a limited service - Monday to Saturdays, one train a day goes to
There was a more frequent service in place in the 1970s and 1980s (5-6 trains per day each way - see Table 32 of the 1979, 1985 & 1988 National Passenger timetables for more details), but the timetable was cut in half in 1991 due to a rolling stock shortage and to the present minimal level in 2004. The remaining trains are operated primarily to meet
References
- ISSN 0033-8923.
- ^ "Rare Yorkshire signal boxes are given listed status". Yorkshire Evening Post. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
- ^ Major re-signalling project to begin in North Yorkshire Rail Technology Magazine news article 19 May 2014; Retrieved 3 April 2017
- ^ Brigadier C A Langley (4 May 1949). "REPORT ON THE ACCIDENT" (PDF). Railways Archive. Ministry of Transport. p. 5. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
- ^ Great British Railway Journeys - Boston to Hensall BBC Two programme guide; Retrieved 19 January 2017
- ^ Hensall station house in 2011 Murray-Rust, Alan Geograph.org; Retrieved 19 January 2017
- ^ Hensall station facilities National Rail Enquiries
- ^ GB eNRT, May 2023 Edition, Table 32
- ^ "The ghost trains haunting Britain’s rail network" Freeman, Sarah, Yorkshire Post article 28 April 2015; Retrieved 20 July 2016.
External links
- Train times and station information for Hensall railway station from National Rail
- Historic England. "Hensall Signal Box (1412058)". National Heritage List for England.
Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
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Pontefract Line Mondays-Saturdays only |