Whitley Bridge railway station

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.

Whitley Bridge
Location
Place	Eggborough
Local authority	Selby
Coordinates	53.699100°N 1.158900°W / 53.699100; -1.158900
Grid reference	SE556228
Operations
Station code	WBD
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*
2014/15	676
2015/16	1,168
2016/17	782
2017/18	1,236
2018/19	544
History
Key dates	Opened 1848 (1848)
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Whitley Bridge from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

Facilities

The station is unmanned and has only basic amenities – no permanent buildings remain other than standard glass and metal shelters on each platform. There is a single customer help point on platform 1 (eastbound) and timetable posters on both sides to provide train running information. No ticket facilities are provided, so passengers can buy their tickets either on the train or at their destination. Step-free access is available to both platforms via the level crossing at the Knottingley end of the station.[1]

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.[2] 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.[3] The line is however also used for freight traffic to/from Drax Power Station.

References

1. Whitley Bridge station facilities National Rail Enquiries; Retrieved 19 January 2017
2. Table 32 National Rail timetable, May 2018
3. "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		Following station
Knottingley		Northern Pontefract Line Mondays-Saturdays only		Hensall