Pontefract Monkhill railway station
![]() A Class 153 diesel multiple unit no.153307 at platform 2 in July 2006 | |||||
General information | |||||
Location | Pontefract, City of Wakefield England | ||||
Coordinates | 53°41′56″N 1°18′14″W / 53.6988°N 1.3040°W | ||||
Grid reference | SE460227 | ||||
Managed by | Northern Trains | ||||
Transit authority | West Yorkshire Metro | ||||
Platforms | 2 | ||||
Other information | |||||
Station code | PFM | ||||
Fare zone | 3 | ||||
Classification | DfT category F1 | ||||
History | |||||
Opened | 1 April 1848 | ||||
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Interchange | 1,240 | ||||
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Pontefract Monkhill railway station is the busiest station in the town of
The other stations in the town are Pontefract Tanshelf and Pontefract Baghill.
History
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The lines to Leeds via
Facilities
The station is unstaffed and no longer has permanent buildings other than standard waiting shelters. There is an automated ticket machine on the Leeds bound platform. There are digital information screens and timetable posters on both platforms, along with a customer help point on platform 1. Step-free access is only available from the car park to platform 1, as platform 2 (towards Knottingley and Goole) can only be reached via the footbridge (which has stairs).[2]
Services
From Mondays to Saturdays, there is a roughly half-hourly service operated by
In the Leeds direction, alternate trains run via Castleford or Featherstone and Wakefield Westgate.[3] Three trains via Castleford are extended to or from Goole: one service from Goole to Leeds in the morning (which is formed from an empty train that runs towards Goole earlier) and one return trip from Leeds to Goole in the evening.
On Sundays the service is hourly, with trains also running alternately via Castleford and Wakefield to Leeds, and no services operate past Knottingley to Goole.
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Doncaster | Grand Central West Riding
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Wakefield Kirkgate |
London
In January 2009, open access operator
The service is operated and branded by Grand Central, using refurbished Class 180 units, and started on 23 May 2010.[5] However, according to a recent[when?] document submitted the ORR, only 15 passengers a day (on average)[6] are making use of the new service.
The timetable has though been altered to serve Mirfield in addition to the other intermediate stops since December 2011, although only one of the three northbound trains actually serves both this station and Mirfield (the evening departure from King's Cross is routed via Adwick and Fitzwilliam and so does not call here, whilst the morning one calls but omits the Mirfield stop).
As of 2023, there are three southbound services and two northbound services per day on weekdays. On Saturdays this is increased to four southbound services but reduced to one northbound service. There is no Grand Central service on Sundays.[7]
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Notes
- ^ a b Body, p. 143
- ^ Pontefract Monkhill station facilities National Rail Enquiries; Retrieved 19 January 2017
- ^ Table 32 National Rail timetable, May 2019
- ^ ORR Track Access Applications Decision for the ECML – 28 January 2009 Archived 24 March 2009 at the UK Government Web Archive ORR Website; Retrieved 29 January 2009
- RAILissue 641
- ^ "End of the line for rail link?". Pontefract and Castleford Express News. Archived from the original on 4 June 2012. Retrieved 19 March 2011.
- ^ West Yorkshire and Doncaster timetable
References
- Body, G. (1988), PSL Field Guides – Railways of the Eastern Region Volume 2, Patrick Stephens Ltd, Wellingborough, ISBN 1-85260-072-1
External links
Media related to Pontefract Monkhill railway station at Wikimedia Commons
- Train times and station information for Pontefract Monkhill railway station from National Rail
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