Whitley Bridge railway station
Whitley Bridge | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Location | Selby |
| Managed by | Northern |
| Platforms | 2 |
| Other information | |
| Station code | WBD |
| History | |
| Opened | 1848 |
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 in 1848, on their line between Wakefield Kirkgate and Goole via Knottingley.
Services
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.[1] 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.[2] The line is however also used for freight traffic to/from Drax Power Station.
References
- ^ Table 32 National Rail timetable, May 2016
- ^ "The ghost trains haunting Britain’s rail network" Freeman, Sarah Yorkshire Post article 28 April 2015; Retrieved 20 July 2016
External links
Media related to Whitley Bridge railway station at Wikimedia Commons
| Preceding station |  National Rail
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Following station | ||
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| Northern Pontefract Line Mondays-Saturdays only |
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