Snaith railway station

Snaith National Rail
Location
Place Snaith
Local authority East Riding of Yorkshire
Coordinates 53°41′34″N 1°01′34″W / 53.69279°N 1.02600°W / 53.69279; -1.02600Coordinates: 53°41′34″N 1°01′34″W / 53.69279°N 1.02600°W / 53.69279; -1.02600
Grid reference SE643222
Operations
Station code SNI
Managed by Northern
Number of platforms 1
DfT category F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
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Annual rail passenger usage*
2010/11 Increase2,994
2011/12 Decrease1,738
2012/13 Increase1,808
2013/14 Decrease1,776
2014/15 Decrease1,596
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Snaith from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Snaith railway station is a railway station that serves the town of Snaith in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is located 26 miles (42 km) east of Leeds railway station on the Pontefract Line.

Services

Snaith has only a limited service - on Mondays to Saturdays, one train a day goes to Goole and two per day go to Leeds. There is no Sunday service. The trains stopping at Snaith are known as parliamentary trains or "ghost trains", since they are mostly empty and only scheduled in order to avoid closing the station.[1]

References

  1. "Why Britain has secret ghost trains". BBC. 23 July 2015. Retrieved 17 July 2015.

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