- Featherstone railway station
Infobox UK station
name = Featherstone
manager =Northern Rail
locale =Featherstone
borough =City of Wakefield
pte = West Yorkshire (Metro)
zone = 3
code = FEA
lowusage0405 = 52,530
lowusage0506 = 57,650
lowusage0607 = 60,326
platforms = 2
start = 1992Featherstone railway station serves the town of
Featherstone inWest Yorkshire ,England . It lies on thePontefract Line , operated byNorthern Rail , 9 km (6 miles) east ofWakefield Kirkgate railway station .The current station was opened by Metro (
West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive ) onMay 12 1992 when the line betweenWakefield andPontefract 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station on the same site had been closed in January 1967 when passenger services between Wakefield and Pontefract were withdrawn.ervices
On Monday to Saturday. there is an hourly service to Wakefield Kirkgate and to Knottingley via
Pontefract Monkhill . There are no trains on Sundays.External links
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