Darton railway station

Railway station in South Yorkshire, England

53°35′17″N 1°31′51″W / 53.5880°N 1.5309°W / 53.5880; -1.5309Grid referenceSE311102Managed byNorthernTransit authoritySouth YorkshirePlatforms2Other informationStation codeDRTFare zoneBarnsley (SYPTE)
5 (WYPTE)ClassificationDfT category F1HistoryOriginal companyManchester and Leeds RailwayPre-groupingLancashire and Yorkshire RailwayPost-groupingLondon, Midland and Scottish RailwayKey dates1 January 1850 (1850-01-01)Station openedPassengers2018/19

0.165 million2019/20

0.163 million2020/21

50,3522021/22

0.104 million2022/23

0.102 million

Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Darton railway station is a railway station in a large village of 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.^{[citation needed]}

The car park at the station was recently^[when?] 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.

Facilities

The station is unstaffed and no longer has any permanent buildings aside from standard waiting shelters on each side (the old buildings were demolished after the station lost its staffing in 1970). Timetable posters and digital display screens provide train running information and there is step-free access to both platforms.^[3]

Services

There is an hourly service to Leeds via Wakefield Kirkgate and Castleford northbound and to Sheffield via Barnsley southbound (though the last northbound train each day terminates at Wakefield Kirkgate). The service is two-hourly in each direction on Sundays.^[4]

References

^ Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 77. ISBN 1-85260-508-1. R508.
^ 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.
^ Darton station facilities National Rail Enquiries; Retrieved 25 January 2017
^ Table 27 National Rail timetable, May 2023