The Wakefield and Goole Line
The Wakefield and Goole Line links 6 stations, with a top line speed of 50 mph.
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The line in numbers
| Track | about 23 miles, counting every running line |
|---|---|
| Stations | 6 |
| Top line speed | 50 mph |
| Passengers a year | 843,522 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
- Rawcliffe412 a year
- Snaith1,254 a year
- Hensall580 a year
- Whitley Bridge860 a year
- Pontefract Monkhill228,628 a year
- Wakefield Kirkgate611,788 a year
The busiest station on the line is Wakefield Kirkgate, 611,788 entries and exits a year and 782nd busiest in Britain.
Lines it meets
Castleford and Pontefract Monkhill Line, Hallam Line, Pontefract 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.