Fitzwilliam railway station

Fitzwilliam
43112 passing through at speed
Location
Place	Fitzwilliam
Local authority	City of Wakefield
Coordinates	53°37′57″N 1°22′28″W / 53.6326°N 1.3745°W / 53.6326; -1.3745Coordinates: 53°37′57″N 1°22′28″W / 53.6326°N 1.3745°W / 53.6326; -1.3745
Grid reference	SE414153
Operations
Station code	FZW
Managed by	Northern
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	0.105 million
2005/06	0.116 million
2006/07	0.126 million
2007/08	0.142 million
2008/09	0.191 million
2009/10	0.179 million
2010/11	0.196 million
2011/12	0.201 million
2012/13	0.230 million
2013/14	0.256 million
2014/15	0.279 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	West Yorkshire (Metro)
Zone	4
History
1 March 1982	Opened
National Rail – UK railway stations

* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Fitzwilliam from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
UK Railways portal

Fitzwilliam railway station is in the village of Fitzwilliam near Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England.

The station is on the Wakefield Line operated by Northern. Trains operate from Fitzwilliam to Leeds via Wakefield Westgate, Doncaster and Sheffield.

The station opened on 1 March 1982 - there had previously been a station of the same name situated a short distance further north that had been opened by the LNER in 1937, but this closed in November 1967.^[1] The line was electrified in 1989.

Services

On Monday to Saturdays, a half-hourly service operates towards Wakefield Westgate and Leeds and an hourly service operates both to Doncaster and to Sheffield.^[2]

On Sundays, an hourly service operates to Wakefield Westgate and Leeds and a two-hourly service to Doncaster and Sheffield respectively.

References

↑ "Lost Railways West Yorkshire - Station Closures" Retrieved 27 April 2016
↑ GB eNRT 2015-16 Edition, Table 31

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fitzwilliam railway station.

Train times and station information for Fitzwilliam railway station from National Rail

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Moorthorpe		Northern Rail Wakefield Line		Sandal and Agbrigg
South Elmsall		Northern Rail Wakefield Line		Sandal and Agbrigg

Railway stations in West Yorkshire

Lists	List of busiest railway stations in West Yorkshire

MetroTrain lines	■ Airedale ■ Calder Valley ■ Dearne Valley ■ Hallam ■ Harrogate ■ Huddersfield ■ Leeds-Bradford ■ Penistone ■ Pontefract ■ Wakefield ■ Wharfedale

City of Bradford	Apperley Bridge 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	Cononley Darton Skipton

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