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The Pontefract line is one of the rail services in the West Yorkshire Metro area of northern England. The service is operated by Northern, and links Wakefield and Leeds with Goole via Pontefract. The Metro timetable for the line also includes services operated as the Dearne Valley line between York and Sheffield via Pontefract.
Pontefract Tanshelf railway station is the most central station in the market town of Pontefract in West Yorkshire, England, and serves Pontefract Races, the racecourse located just down the street from the station. It lies on the Pontefract Line operated by Northern and is 8 miles (13 km) east of Wakefield Kirkgate. [1]
The line was electrified in 1989, between Leeds & Wakefield Westgate, as part of the programme to electrify the East Coast Main Line. [2] [3] The service connects Leeds and Wakefield with Sheffield and Doncaster with the section of the line between Leeds and Doncaster forming part of the East Coast Main Line. [4]
The Wakefield line features local trains to both Doncaster and Sheffield plus East Coast Main Line, Midland Main Line and Cross Country Route expresses. Prior to the Railways Act 1921 , which led to the 1923 Grouping of railways in Britain, most railways in Wakefield were owned or operated by six companies.
Pontefract line to Castleford, Pontefract and Knottingley; York and Selby lines to Selby and York via Micklefield; Metro also publish a Leeds/Bradford timetable with trains that run between Leeds and Bradford Forster Square via Shipley, along with Calder Valley line trains serving Leeds, New Pudsey and Bradford Interchange.
Pontefract Monkhill railway station is the busiest station in the market town of Pontefract in West Yorkshire, England. The station is on the Pontefract Line managed by Northern but is also served by Grand Central and is 14 miles (23 km) south east of Leeds. The other stations in the town are Pontefract Tanshelf and Pontefract Baghill.
The fare structure is as follows (these show the West Yorkshire Metro rail zones): Zone 1 Leeds railway station; Zone 2 Kirkstall Forge; Zone 3 Apperley Bridge to Crossflatts. Shipley is also served by the Leeds–Bradford line and the Wharfedale line; Zone 4 Keighley; Zone 5 Steeton & Silsden; Zone 7 (from 17 May 2009) [5] Cononley to Skipton
Pontefract station may refer to one of the following stations in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England: Pontefract Baghill railway station, the least busy of the three, served by trains between Sheffield and York; Pontefract Monkhill railway station, the busiest station, served by trains between Goole and Leeds/Wakefield