Knottingley railway station

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Knottingley
Location
Place	Knottingley
Local authority	City of Wakefield
Operations
Station code	KNO
Managed by	Northern Rail
Platforms in use	2
Live departures and station information from National Rail
Annual Rail Passenger Usage
2004/05 *	0.085 million
2005/06 *	0.115 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	West Yorkshire (Metro)
Zone	3
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Knottingley from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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Knottingley railway station serves the town of Knottingley in West Yorkshire, England. It lies on the Pontefract Line, operated by Northern Rail, and is 25 km (16 miles) south east of Leeds railway station.

The station is the final one in West Yorkshire before the North Yorkshire border and most services terminate (or start) there.

[edit] Services

There is an hourly service from Knottingley to both the nearby cities of Leeds and Wakefield (Kirkgate) via Pontefract Monkhill with one train per day to Goole. Sundays there is a two-hourly service to Leeds.

There is also a Freight Only line to the East Coast Main Line to Doncaster from here.

[edit] External links

• Train times and station information for Knottingley railway station from National Rail

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Pontefract Monkhill		Northern Rail Pontefract Line		Whitley Bridge
Disused Railways
Terminus		Askern Branch Line		Ferrybridge

Railway stations in West Yorkshire
MetroTrain lines: ▐ Airedale • ▐ Caldervale • ║ Dearne Valley • ▐ Hallam Line • ▐ Harrogate • ▐ Huddersfield • ▐ Leeds-Bradford • ▐ Penistone • ▐ Pontefract • ▐ Wakefield • ▐ Wharfedale • ▐ York & Selby
Major stations:   Bradford Forster Square - Bradford Interchange - Halifax - Huddersfield - Leeds - Shipley - Wakefield Westgate
Other stations:  Baildon - Batley - Ben Rhydding - Berry Brow - Bingley - Bramley - Brockholes - Brighouse - Burley Park - Burley-in-Wharfedale - Castleford - Cottingley - Crossflatts - Cross Gates - Darton* - Deighton - Denby Dale - Dewsbury - East Garforth - Featherstone - Fitzwilliam - Frizinghall - Garforth - Glasshoughton - Guiseley - Headingley - Hebden Bridge - Honley - Horsforth - Ilkley - Keighley - Knottingley - Lockwood - Marsden - Menston - Micklefield - Mirfield - Moorthorpe - Morley - Mytholmroyd - New Pudsey - Normanton - Outwood - Pontefract Baghill - Pontefract Monkhill - Pontefract Tanshelf - Ravensthorpe - Saltaire - Sandal and Agbrigg - Shepley - Slaithwaite - South Elmsall - Sowerby Bridge - Steeton and Silsden - Stocksmoor - Streethouse - Todmorden - Wakefield Kirkgate - Walsden - Woodlesford
* Darton station is in South Yorkshire, however West Yorkshire Metro passes are valid to/from this station.
Transport in West Yorkshire - Metro