Pontefract Baghill railway station

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Pontefract Baghill
Location
Place	Pontefract
Local authority	Wakefield
Operations
Station code	PFR
Managed by	Northern Rail
Platforms in use	2
Live departures and station information from National Rail
Annual Rail Passenger Usage
2004/05 *	53 ▲
2005/06 *	106
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	West Yorkshire (Metro)
Zone	3
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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Pontefract Baghill from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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Pontefract Baghill railway station is the least busy of the three railway stations in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England. The other stations, Monkhill and Tanshelf, both lie on the Pontefract Line, while Baghill lies on the Dearne Valley Line 34 km (21¼ miles) south of York towards Sheffield.

In the Strategic Rail Authority's 2002/3 financial year, only 15 people bought tickets for journeys from Pontefract Baghill station, and 21 bought tickets for journeys ending there ^[1], making it the sixth least busy station in the United Kingdom.

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The low level of usage can be attributed to there being only two trains each day serving the station northbound to York and southbound to Sheffield.

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• Train times and station information for Pontefract Baghill railway station from National Rail

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Moorthorpe		Northern Rail Dearne Valley Line		Sherburn-in-Elmet

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