Pontefract Monkhill railway station

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Pontefract Monkhill
Location
Place	Pontefract
Local authority	City of Wakefield
Operations
Station code	PFM
Managed by	Northern Rail
Platforms in use	2
Live departures and station information from National Rail
Annual Rail Passenger Usage
2004/05 *	0.113 million
2005/06 *	0.146 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 Pontefract Monkhill from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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Pontefract Monkhill railway station is the busiest station in the town of Pontefract, West Yorkshire. The station is on the Pontefract Line operated by Northern Rail and is 22 km (14 mi) south east of Leeds.

The other stations in the town are Pontefract Tanshelf and Pontefract Baghill.

[edit] Services

There is an hourly service from Monkhill to both Leeds and Wakefield Kirkgate in one direction and two trains per hour to Knottingley in the other.

Sundays there is a two-hourly service to Leeds and Knottingley.

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

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Glasshoughton or Pontefract Tanshelf		Northern Rail Pontefract Line		Knottingley

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