Moorthorpe railway station

Moorthorpe
The restored Moorthorpe railway station
Location
Place	Moorthorpe
Local authority	City of Wakefield
Coordinates	53°35′42″N 1°18′18″W / 53.5949°N 1.3050°W / 53.5949; -1.3050Coordinates: 53°35′42″N 1°18′18″W / 53.5949°N 1.3050°W / 53.5949; -1.3050
Grid reference	SE460111
Operations
Station code	MRP
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*
2010/11	0.191 million
2011/12	0.200 million
2012/13	0.227 million
2013/14	0.241 million
2014/15	0.264 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	West Yorkshire (Metro)
Zone	5(WYPTE)& Barnsley(SYPTE)
History
Key dates	Opened 1879 (1879)
National Rail – UK railway stations

* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Moorthorpe from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Moorthorpe railway station serves Moorthorpe and South Kirkby, near Pontefract, in the City of Wakefield district of West Yorkshire, England. It lies on the Wakefield Line and the Dearne Valley Line with both operated by Northern.

The station was opened in May 1879, jointly by the Midland Railway and North Eastern Railway, as part of their Swinton and Knottingley Joint Railway scheme. A short chord was also built at the same time - to link the S&K Joint line, with the main Doncaster to Leeds line at South Kirkby Junction. Upon opening, Moorthorpe marked the northern limit of the part of the line maintained by the Midland Railway; the southern end of the intersection bridge over the Doncaster to Leeds line, marked the actual boundary. North of that point, the North Eastern Railway undertook the maintenance. This meant the architecture changed here - Moorthorpe and south thereof being Midland style; north of here it is of the North Eastern pattern.

This latter connection is now part of the main line between Sheffield and Leeds, and is used by CrossCountry services between Edinburgh Waverley and Birmingham New Street, and beyond. In addition, local trains on the Leeds - Rotherham Central - Sheffield route (Wakefield Line) use the spur; and call at the station. This connecting line is now effectively the main line - and it splits from the S & K route immediately north of the station; with the track to York then bridging the GNR main line on its way northwards.

After the station was reduced to the status of an unstaffed halt in the 1970s, the station building was converted into a pub. This closed in the 1980s and the building became derelict. However it has recently been restored by the town council, with funding from the Railway Heritage Trust, to include office space, a community cafe and a booking office.^[1]^[2]

A footbridge was opened at the station at the end of May 2010; previously passengers had to cross the tracks at a flat crossing.^[3]^[4]

Services

Monday to Saturdays, an hourly service operates from Moorthorpe to Leeds via Wakefield Westgate and to Sheffield. Sundays the service is two-hourly in both directions.

Two services daily operate on the Dearne Valley line to York and Sheffield.^[5]

The station is less than 1 mile (1.6 km) away from South Elmsall railway station which means the South Kirkby/South Elmsall area has a half-hourly service (hourly Sundays) to Leeds.

The station is less than 1 mile (1.6 km) away from Frickley Athletic F.C.

Tickets

The station is in West Yorkshire but South Yorkshire PTE tickets are valid to and from this station on services into South Yorkshire.

References

↑ Paul Salveson (January 2012). "Moorthorpe - Yorkshire's New Showpiece". RailProfessional.
↑ Andy Savage (30 April 2014). "Conserving the railway's past". Rail Magazine (747). pp. 52–57.
↑ Rail (631). p. 15. Missing or empty |title= (help)
↑ "Moorthorpe bridge opens to improve pedestrian safety" (Press release). Network Rail. 1 June 2010. Retrieved 1 June 2010.
↑ GB eNRT December 2015 Edition, Tables 31 & 33

External links

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

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Swinton		Northern Rail Dearne Valley Line		Pontefract Baghill
Thurnscoe		Northern Rail Wakefield Line		Fitzwilliam

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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