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 = 1992

Featherstone railway station serves the town of Featherstone in West Yorkshire, England. It lies on the Pontefract Line, operated by Northern Rail, 9 km (6 miles) east of Wakefield Kirkgate railway station.

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station on the same site had been closed in January 1967 when passenger services between Wakefield and Pontefract were withdrawn.

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.

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