Featherstone railway station

Featherstone
The view from platform 1
Location
Place	Featherstone
Local authority	City of Wakefield
Coordinates	53°40′45″N 1°21′27″W / 53.6793°N 1.3574°W / 53.6793; -1.3574Coordinates: 53°40′45″N 1°21′27″W / 53.6793°N 1.3574°W / 53.6793; -1.3574
Grid reference	SE425205
Operations
Station code	FEA
Managed by	Northern
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2010/11	77,754
2011/12	81,138
2012/13	81,452
2013/14	72,106
2014/15	67,256
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	West Yorkshire Metro
Zone	3
History
1 April 1848 (1848-04-01)	opened
1967	closed
1992	reopened
National Rail – UK railway stations

* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Featherstone from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Featherstone railway station serves the town of Featherstone in West Yorkshire, England. It lies on the Pontefract Line, operated by Northern, 6 miles (10 km) east of Wakefield Kirkgate railway station.

The current station was opened by West Yorkshire Metro on 12 May 1992 when the line between Wakefield and Pontefract was re-opened. A previous station on the same site had been closed in January 1967 when passenger services between Wakefield and Pontefract were withdrawn as a result of the Beeching Axe.

Services

During Monday to Saturday, there are hourly train services to Wakefield Kirkgate and to Knottingley via Pontefract Monkhill.^[1] There are no trains on Sundays in the present timetable, though Arriva Rail North plan to introduce one in the future as part of the new Northern Franchise Agreement (which will also see through trains to Leeds).^[2]

References

↑ Table 32 National Rail timetable, May 2016
↑ Northern Franchise Improvements - DfT

External links

Train times and station information for Featherstone railway station from National Rail

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Streethouse		Northern Pontefract Line Mondays-Saturdays only		Pontefract Tanshelf

Railway stations in West Yorkshire

Lists	List of busiest railway stations in West Yorkshire

MetroTrain lines	■ Airedale ■ Calder Valley ■ Dearne Valley ■ Hallam ■ Harrogate ■ Huddersfield ■ Leeds-Bradford ■ Penistone ■ Pontefract ■ Wakefield ■ Wharfedale

City of Bradford	Apperley Bridge Baildon Ben Rhydding Bingley Bradford Forster Square Bradford Interchange Burley-in-Wharfedale Crossflatts Frizinghall Ilkley Keighley Menston Saltaire Shipley Steeton and Silsden

Calderdale	Brighouse Halifax Hebden Bridge Mytholmroyd Sowerby Bridge Todmorden Walsden

Kirklees	Batley Berry Brow Brockholes Deighton Denby Dale Dewsbury Honley Huddersfield Lockwood Marsden Mirfield Ravensthorpe Shepley Slaithwaite Stocksmoor

City of Leeds	Bramley Burley Park Cottingley Cross Gates East Garforth Garforth Guiseley Headingley Horsforth Kirkstall Forge Leeds Micklefield Morley New Pudsey Woodlesford

City of Wakefield	Castleford Featherstone Fitzwilliam Glasshoughton Knottingley Moorthorpe Normanton Outwood Pontefract Baghill Pontefract Monkhill Pontefract Tanshelf Sandal and Agbrigg South Elmsall Streethouse Wakefield Kirkgate Wakefield Westgate

Outside West Yorkshire, but within the West Yorkshire Metro area	Cononley Darton Skipton

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