Featherstone railway station

Featherstone
265px The view from platform 1
Location
Place	Featherstone
Local authority	City of Wakefield
Coordinates
Grid reference	SE425205
Operations
Station code	FEA
Managed by	Northern Rail
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	52,530
2005/06	57,650
2006/07	60,326
2007/08	64,256
2008/09	75,896
2009/10	74,126
2010/11	77,754
2011/12	81,138
2012/13	81,452
2013/14	72,106
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	West Yorkshire (Metro)
Zone	3
History
1 April 1848 (1848-04-01)	opened
1967	closed
1992	reopened
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Featherstone from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
UK Railways portal

Featherstone railway station serves the town of Featherstone in West Yorkshire, England. It lies on the Pontefract Line, operated by Northern Rail, 6 miles (10 km) east of Wakefield Kirkgate railway station.

The current station was opened by Metro (West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive) on 12 May 1992 when the line between Wakefield and Pontefract was re-opened. A previous station on the same site had been closed in January 1967 when passenger services between Wakefield and Pontefract were withdrawn.

Services

During Monday to Saturday, there are hourly train services to Wakefield Kirkgate and to Knottingley via Pontefract Monkhill. There are no trains on Sundays.

External links

• Train times and station information for Featherstone railway station from National Rail

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Streethouse		Northern Rail Pontefract Line Mondays-Saturdays only		Pontefract Tanshelf