* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Goldthorpe from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.

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Goldthorpe railway station serves the village of Goldthorpe, in South Yorkshire, England. It lies on the Wakefield Line 23 km (14¼ miles) north of Sheffield railway station. It was opened in 1988.

Although it passed through the three settlements of Goldthorpe, neighbouring Thurnscoe and Bolton-on-Dearne, the Swinton & Knottingley railway only provided one station for the area, at Bolton; both the other settlements were served by stations on other lines. Until 1961 this station was called Bolton on Dearne for Goldthorpe and was served by Sheffield-York stopping services.

By the late 1980s the low demand for York-bound passengers meant that only a handful of stopping trains used the line. South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive, responding to increasing demand for Sheffield-Leeds passengers in the area, and a lack of capacity on the Sheffield-Barnsley-Leeds line, sponsored an hourly service via Bolton, and opened brand new stations at Goldthorpe and Thurnscoe.

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Monday to Saturday there is an hourly service to Sheffield southbound and to Leeds northbound. Sundays there is a two-hourly service in each direction