Castleford railway station
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| Location | |||
| Place | Castleford | ||
| Local authority | City of Wakefield | ||
| Operations | |||
| Station code | CFD | ||
| Managed by | Northern Rail | ||
| Platforms in use | 1 | ||
| Live departures and station information from National Rail | |||
| Annual Rail Passenger Usage | |||
| 2004/05 * | 0.293 million | ||
| 2005/06 * | 0.312 million | ||
| Passenger Transport Executive | |||
| PTE | West Yorkshire (Metro) | ||
| Zone | 3 | ||
| National Rail - UK railway stations | |||
| * Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Castleford from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. | |||
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Castleford railway station is an unstaffed railway station serving the town of Castleford in West Yorkshire. It lies on the Hallam and the Pontefract Lines 17 kilometres (11 mi) south east of Leeds.
Although originally built as a through station, regular passenger services beyond Castleford towards York were discontinued in the 1960s. Today, all services reverse in the station, arriving and departing from a single platform. Freight traffic runs through the station. The footbridge and platform 2 are disused although platform 2 was brought back into use temporarily during the Leeds 1st project in 2002 when Transpennine services between York and Huddersfield were diverted to avoid engineering work in Leeds, routed via Church Fenton, Castleford and Wakefield Kirkgate. The route from Church Fenton is occasionally used as an emergency diversion.
Metro, the West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive, has been developing plans to relocate Castleford Bus Station to a new site next to the railway station, and to create a fully-integrated and staffed transport interchange. Provisional approval for the £14.5m project was granted in December, 2004, with works due to be completed by 2010.
[edit] Services
Monday to Saturdays, there is a half-hourly service from Castleford to Leeds with an hourly service to Sheffield via Barnsley (Hallam Line) and an hourly service to Knottingley (Pontefract Line).
Sundays there is an hourly service to Leeds and a two-hourly service to both Sheffield and Knottingley.
[edit] External links
- Train times and station information for Castleford railway station from National Rail
- Information from Metro about the new travel interchange
| Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
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| Normanton | Northern Rail (Hallam Line) |
Woodlesford | ||
| Glasshoughton | Northern Rail (Pontefract Line) |
Woodlesford | ||
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