Whitley Bridge railway station
Whitley Bridge  | |||||
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| General information | |||||
| Location | Eggborough, North Yorkshire England | ||||
| Coordinates | 53°41′57″N 1°09′32″W / 53.699100°N 1.158900°W | ||||
| Grid reference | SE556228 | ||||
| Managed by | Northern Trains | ||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||
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| Station code | WBD | ||||
| Classification | DfT category F2 | ||||
| History | |||||
| Opened | 1 April 1848 | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2019/20 |  562 | ||||
| 2020/21 |  62 | ||||
| 2021/22 | 462 | ||||
| 2022/23 | 906 | ||||
| 2023/24 | 1,202 | ||||
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Whitley Bridge railway station serves the villages of Eggborough and Whitley in North Yorkshire, England. It is located on the Pontefract Line and is 20 miles (32 km) east of Leeds. It was opened by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway on 1 April 1848, on their line between Wakefield Kirkgate and Goole via Knottingley.
Facilities
[edit]The station is unmanned and has only basic amenities – no permanent buildings remain other than standard glass and metal shelters on each platform. There is a single customer help point on platform 1 (eastbound) and timetable posters on both sides to provide train running information. No ticket facilities are provided, so passengers can buy their tickets either on the train or at their destination. Step-free access is available to both platforms via the level crossing at the Goole end of the station.[1]
Services
[edit]Whitley Bridge has a limited service – Monday to Saturdays, one (early evening) train a day goes to Goole and two per day go to Leeds (one in the morning business peak and the other mid-evening). There is no Sunday service.[2] Trains operate on Bank holidays.
The sparse timetable continues to operate mainly to meet Northern's franchise obligations and to avoid the need for the Knottingley to Goole line to be put through the formal closure process.[3] The line is however also used for freight traffic to/from Drax Power Station.
References
[edit]- ^ Whitley Bridge station facilities National Rail Enquiries; Retrieved 19 January 2017
- ^ Table 32 National Rail timetable, May 2023
- ^ Freeman, Sarah (28 April 2015). "The ghost trains haunting Britain's rail network". Yorkshire Post. Archived from the original on 6 October 2019. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
External links
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Media related to Whitley Bridge railway station at Wikimedia Commons
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