Church Fenton train station

You can reach 54 stations directly from Church Fenton on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is York, with 68 trains a day.

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• 54 direct destinations
• 1,518th busiest in Britain
• Unstaffed
• 14 parking spaces
• 2 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Church Fenton

Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.

and 14 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Church Fenton

Church Fenton is on the Normanton and Colton Junction Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Church Fenton station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Church Fenton station on 423 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 75 paths on the Wednesday, 37 paths on the Saturday and 16 paths on the Sunday. 92 of them run whatever the traffic; the rest are held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move. The busiest hour is 16:00 to 17:00 on the Monday, with 6 paths booked.

The grid counts the goods trains booked to pass in each hour of the week beginning 12 October 2026: the darker the hour, the more paths, and a dot marks an hour with at least one path that runs regardless. Engineering trains, empty stock and light engines are not counted. Across Britain only about a fifth of booked freight paths run on a given day, so a booked path is a possibility rather than a promise; the freight statistics page explains how that is measured.

Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless

How busy Church Fenton station is

159,050 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,518th busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 8,663 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Church Fenton and York than any other pair: 76,982 a year. That is where passengers go, which is not always where the most trains go.

Source: Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage, 2024-25. Estimated from ticket sales.

Sundays

Sunday is a different railway here: 12 stations instead of 54, a drop of about 78%. Saturday runs to 27.

Nearest other stations

• Ulleskelf 1.9 miles
• Sherburn-in-Elmet 2.1 miles
• South Milford 3.2 miles
• Micklefield 4.8 miles
• East Garforth 6.4 miles

Closed stations nearby

Former stations within 8 km of Church Fenton, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.

• Bolton Percy · 3.1 miles
• Gascoigne Wood Junction · 3.4 miles
• Stutton · 3.4 miles
• Cawood · 3.8 miles
• Milford Junction · 3.9 miles
• Tadcaster · 4.3 miles

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Facilities at Church Fenton station

Church Fenton is unstaffed, with step-free access to no part of the station.

Parking at Church Fenton station

• Station Car Park 14 spaces
  £2.20 a day, £8.80 a week

Cycle parking: 8 spaces (sheltered, stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 13 July 2026.

Getting to Church Fenton station

Church Fenton station is in North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber, and is run by Northern Trains.

The nearest motorway junction is M1 J43 (Hook Moor), 4.7 miles west.

2 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Station.

Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.

Church Fenton station elsewhere

• National Rail facilities, opening hours and live departures
• Realtime Trains every train calling today, to the minute
• Wikipedia the station's history
• OpenStreetMap the map data this page is built from

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