Darton railway station

Darton
View of the station taken from platform 2
Location
Place	Darton
Local authority	Barnsley
Coordinates	53°35′17″N 1°31′51″W / 53.5880°N 1.5309°WCoordinates: 53°35′17″N 1°31′51″W / 53.5880°N 1.5309°W
Grid reference	SE311102
Operations
Station code	DRT
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	0.152 million
2011/12	0.153 million
2012/13	0.202 million
2013/14	0.189 million
2014/15	0.221 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	South Yorkshire
Zone	Barnsley (SYPTE) 5 (WYPTE)
History
Original company	Manchester and Leeds Railway
Pre-grouping	Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
1 January 1850	Station 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 Darton from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Darton railway station is a railway station in Darton, in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. Train services are provided by Northern.

The station was opened by the Manchester and Leeds Railway on 1 January 1850.^[1]

The railway station is in South Yorkshire but West Yorkshire Metro tickets are also valid to and from this station.^[2] The reason for this is that the West-South Yorkshire boundary historically ran between the village and its main source of employment, Woolley Colliery.

The car park at the station was recently reported by the local police force as having the highest incidence of vehicle break-ins in the Barnsley area, but the installation of CCTV is hoped to address this problem.

Services

There is an hourly service to Leeds via Wakefield Kirkgate and Castleford northbound and to Sheffield via Barnsley southbound. The service is two-hourly in each direction on Sundays.^[3]

References

1. Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 77. ISBN 1-85260-508-1. R508.
2. Haigh, A J (2012). Railways in West Yorkshire - Leeds, Bradford, Wakefield, Huddersfield and the West Riding. Express Publishing. p. 76. ISBN 978-1-901056-44-0.
3. Table 34 National Rail timetable, May 2016

External links

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

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Barnsley		Northern Hallam Line		Wakefield Kirkgate