Service summary

Route Monday to Saturday frequency Sunday frequency

Daytime Late evening
Leeds - Castleford -
Pontefract Monkhill - Knottingley
60 mins 60 mins 120 mins
Wakefield Kirkgate - Pontefract Monkhill - Knottingley 60 mins 60 mins No service
Leeds - Castleford -
Pontefract - Knottingley - Goole
Very limited, use
alternative route
via Doncaster
No service No service
Sheffield - Rotherham - Pontefract (Baghill) - Sherburn - York Very limited service,
see timetable
No service Very limited service,
see timetable
Bradford Interchange - Halifax - Brighouse - Wakefield Kirkgate - Pontefract Monkhill - Doncaster - London Three trains a day

Operators: Grand Central and Northern

Full timetable

Download the Pontefract & Dearne Valley Lines timetable (pdf, 175k)
(Valid from 23 May to 11 December 2010)

Pontefract Line diagram

Larger picture of the route diagram (jpeg)