Glasshoughton railway station

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Glasshoughton

Platform 2, July 2006
Location
Place	Glasshoughton
Local authority	City of Wakefield
Coordinates	53°42′31″N 1°20′26″W / 53.70861°N 1.34056°W / 53.70861; -1.34056Coordinates: 53°42′31″N 1°20′26″W / 53.70861°N 1.34056°W / 53.70861; -1.34056
Grid reference	SE436237
Operations
Station code	GLH
Managed by	Northern Rail
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	2,104
2005/06	34,936
2006/07	82,911
2007/08	0.122 million
2008/09	0.145 million
2009/10	0.144 million
2010/11	0.138 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	West Yorkshire (Metro)
Zone	3
History
Opened February 21, 2005 (February 21, 2005)
National Rail – UK railway stations
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 estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Glasshoughton from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Glasshoughton railway station serves Glasshoughton, near Castleford in West Yorkshire, England. It lies on the Pontefract Line, operated by Northern Rail, 12 miles (19 km) south east from Leeds.

The station is currently one of the newest on the network, opened by Metro (West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive) on 21 February 2005. It is located near to the Xscape indoor ski slope and leisure complex near Castleford.

Demand for the new station was seriously under-estimated by Metro. For example, passenger journeys in 2008/09 were forecast to be 50,989 but were actually 135,279. This was chiefly because usage was modelled on the basis of demand for travel by current local residents and businesses only. No attempt was made to estimate possible travel to the station for local retail and leisure attractions, nor possible travel by people driving to the 100-space car park on a park and ride basis, e.g. from the nearby M62. Demand from future residential developments at Glasshoughton was also ignored.^[1]

Services

There is hourly service to Leeds and Knottingley Monday through Saturday, and a service every two hours in each direction on Sunday.

References

↑ Steer Davies Gleave (August 2010). "Station Usage and Demand Forecasts for Newly Opened Railway Lines and Stations". Department for Transport. pp. 139–140. Retrieved 30 August 2013.

External links

Train times and station information for Glasshoughton railway station from National Rail
Metro's announcement of the opening of the station

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Pontefract Monkhill		Northern Rail Pontefract Line		Castleford

Platform 1

v t e Railway stations in West Yorkshire

MetroTrain lines	■ Airedale ■ Caldervale ■ Dearne Valley ■ Hallam ■ Harrogate ■ Huddersfield ■ Leeds-Bradford ■ Penistone ■ Pontefract ■ Wakefield ■ Wharfedale ■ York & Selby

City of Bradford	Baildon Ben Rhydding Bingley Bradford Forster Square Bradford Interchange Burley-in-Wharfedale Crossflatts Frizinghall Ilkley Keighley Menston Saltaire Shipley Steeton and Silsden

Calderdale	Brighouse Halifax Hebden Bridge Mytholmroyd Sowerby Bridge Todmorden Walsden

Kirklees	Batley Berry Brow Brockholes Deighton Denby Dale Dewsbury Honley Huddersfield Lockwood Marsden Mirfield Ravensthorpe Shepley Slaithwaite Stocksmoor

City of Leeds	Bramley Burley Park Cottingley Cross Gates East Garforth Garforth Guiseley Headingley Horsforth Leeds Micklefield Morley New Pudsey Woodlesford

City of Wakefield	Castleford Featherstone Fitzwilliam Glasshoughton Knottingley Moorthorpe Normanton Outwood Pontefract Baghill Pontefract Monkhill Pontefract Tanshelf Sandal and Agbrigg South Elmsall Streethouse Wakefield Kirkgate Wakefield Westgate

Outside West Yorkshire, but within the West Yorkshire Metro area	Darton

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