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Train routes: Pontefract Line

Leeds - Woodlesford - Castleford - Glasshoughton / Wakefield Westgate - Wakefield Kirkgate - Steethouse - Featherstone - Pontefract Tanshelf - Pontefract Monkhill - Knottingley (limited service continues to/from Goole) and York - Sherburn - Pontefract Baghill - Moorthorpe - Rotherham - Meadowhall - Sheffield

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 Please see timetable. No Sunday service.

Operators: Grand Centra (opens in a new window) and Northern (opens in a new window)

Full timetable

Download the Pontefract & Dearne Valley Lines timetable (pdf, 266k - opens in a new window)
(Valid from 11 December 2011 to 13 May 2012)

Pontefract Line diagram

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