The Pontefract Line
The Pontefract Line links 5 stations, with a top line speed of 50 mph.
See the Pontefract Line on the live map
The map draws the line on its own, names every station along it, and shows the trains running on it right now.
The line in numbers
| Track | about 20 miles, counting every running line |
|---|---|
| Stations | 5 |
| Top line speed | 50 mph |
| Passengers a year | 595,088 entries and exits across its stations |
No end-to-end length is given for this line because OpenStreetMap applies its name to several separate stretches of track, so any figure measured from the map data would be a fragment of the real route rather than the whole of it.
Stations on this line
- Knottingley156,292 a year
- Pontefract Monkhill228,628 a year
- Pontefract Tanshelf98,558 a year
- Featherstone86,004 a year
- Streethouse25,606 a year
The busiest station on the line is Pontefract Monkhill, 228,628 entries and exits a year and 1306th busiest in Britain.
Lines it meets
Castleford and Pontefract Monkhill Line, Wakefield and Goole Line.
Passenger figures are the Office of Rail and Road's estimates of station usage for 2024-25, added up across the stations on this line. They count entries and exits at those stations rather than journeys along the line, and a station served by more than one line is counted for each of them.