Chapeltown railway station

Chapeltown
Chapeltown station viewed from the entrance from the Asda supermarket. Recent improvements are visible, including new signage, lighting and the passenger information display systems (visible on platform 2)
Location
Place	Chapeltown
Local authority	City of Sheffield
Coordinates	53°27′44″N 1°27′59″W / 53.462300°N 1.466250°W / 53.462300; -1.466250Coordinates: 53°27′44″N 1°27′59″W / 53.462300°N 1.466250°W / 53.462300; -1.466250
Grid reference	SK355963
Operations
Station code	CLN
Managed by	Northern Rail
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	F1
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	0.188 million
2005/06	0.206 million
2006/07	0.185 million
2007/08	0.191 million
2008/09	0.265 million
2009/10	0.271 million
2010/11	0.304 million
2011/12	0.310 million
2012/13	0.323 million
2013/14	0.305 million
2014/15	0.347 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	Travel South Yorkshire
Zone	Sheffield
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Chapeltown from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Chapeltown railway station, old (foreground) and new (in distance)

Chapeltown railway station, originally known as Chapeltown South, is a railway station in Chapeltown, a district of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. The station is 7.25 miles (12 km) north of Sheffield on the Hallam and Penistone Lines.

History

The present station was the first to be opened under the governance of the South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive in the late 1970s; the original station, a quarter-mile or 600 m nearer to Barnsley, closed at that time. The platforms, shown in the photograph of the old station looking towards the new station just visible in the distance, were retained, the Barnsley bound platform being used as a walkway to connect the original access to the new station. CCTV was installed in March 2008 for the purposes of crime prevention. Improvements to the station included new signs, lighting, nosing on the steps, and for the first time, installation of passenger information display screens (passenger information system) to provide real-time service information.

Services

Services run twice an hour Monday to Saturday to Sheffield (hourly on Sundays) and hourly to Huddersfield on the Penistone Line and Leeds on the Hallam Line respectively (two-hourly Sundays).^[1] On a weekday there are two stopping and two through trains in each direction an hour. On Saturdays only, there is a service to Nottingham departing at 6.35am which is the only Nottingham train to serve Chapeltown, and is the only scheduled service to be operated by a Northern 158 DMU.

References

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Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Meadowhall		Northern Rail Hallam Line		Elsecar
Meadowhall		Northern Rail Penistone Line*		Wombwell
Meadowhall		Northern Rail Nottingham to Leeds Route**		Elsecar