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Pontefract Baghill railway station

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The station has very basic amenities – it is unstaffed and has no ticketing provision of any kind, so anyone travelling from here needs to buy their ticket on the train or in advance of travel. The only other facilities offered are bench seating, a public telephone and timetable information posters
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near the intersection of the two lines as shown on the accompanying RCH map. This connection closed in November 1964, but the bay platform it once used at the northern end can still be made out. Two short curves north of the station near Ferrybridge connect the Dearne Valley Line to the western end
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The usage information (Station Entries and Station Exits) is based on ticket sales in the financial year 2002/03 and covers all National Rail stations. By 2004/05 the figure has risen to 53. The SRA finds it difficult to allocate passenger usage numbers for stations grouped together (tickets are
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booked to Pontefract Stations and not a particular station). Adjusted figures can be wrong either way (hence the sudden increase in the figures right). In any event usage is low although the figure can probably never be ascertained accurately.
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of Knottingley station westbound and the eastern end of Monkhill station (both on the Pontefract Line), but are now only in use for freight and diverted passenger services.
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As of May 2023, the station is served by a limited service of three trains per day in each direction on weekdays and Saturdays only which run northbound to
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at that time. The annual usage in recent years is still considerably lower than that of Monkhill and Tanshelf stations.
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Junction Diagram showing (lower right) railways in the vicinity of Pontefract Baghill (shown here as
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No train services call at the station on Sundays and the station is instead served by a single
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The station was opened together with the Ferrybridge to Moorthorpe section of the
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View from Platform 2 with a train towards Sheffield in August 2006
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PSL Field Guides – Railways of the Eastern Region Volume 2
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Former Swinton and Knottingley Joint Railway stations
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National Rail

Pontefract
City of Wakefield
53°41′31″N 1°18′11″W / 53.692°N 1.303°W / 53.692; -1.303
Grid reference
SE461219
Northern Trains
West Yorkshire Metro
DfT category
Office of Rail and Road
railway stations
Pontefract
West Yorkshire
England
Monkhill
Tanshelf
Pontefract line
Dearne Valley line
York
Sheffield

Railway Clearing House
Swinton and Knottingley Joint Railway
North Eastern Railway
Pontefract Monkhill
Strategic Rail Authority
United Kingdom

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