Hatfield & Stainforth train station

You can reach 43 stations directly from Hatfield & Stainforth on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Doncaster, with 53 trains a day.

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• 43 direct destinations
• 1,904th busiest in Britain
• Unstaffed
• Step-free throughout
• 15 parking spaces

Direct trains from Hatfield & Stainforth

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

and 3 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Hatfield & Stainforth

Hatfield & Stainforth is on the Sheffield to Hull Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Hatfield & Stainforth station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Hatfield & Stainforth station on 564 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 99 paths on the Wednesday, 51 paths on the Saturday and 29 paths on the Sunday. 118 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 19:00 to 20:00 on the Tuesday, with 10 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 Hatfield & Stainforth station is

72,000 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,904th busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 9,174 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Hatfield & Stainforth and Doncaster than any other pair: 37,578 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: 17 stations instead of 43, a drop of about 60%. Saturday runs to 32.

Nearest other stations

• Kirk Sandall 2.7 miles
• Thorne North 2.8 miles
• Thorne South 3.0 miles
• Bentley (South Yorkshire) 6.1 miles
• Adwick 6.5 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Stainforth · 1.0 miles
• Bramwith · 1.7 miles
• Bramwith (WR&G) · 2.2 miles
• Barnby Dun · 2.3 miles
• Thorne Waterside · 2.7 miles
• Thorne (Old) · 2.7 miles

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Facilities at Hatfield & Stainforth station

Hatfield & Stainforth is unstaffed, with step-free access to the whole station.

Parking at Hatfield & Stainforth station

• Station Car Park 15 spaces
  free

Cycle parking: 12 spaces (stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 14 May 2026.

Getting to Hatfield & Stainforth station

Hatfield & Stainforth station is in Doncaster, Yorkshire and The Humber, and is run by Northern Trains.

The nearest motorway junction is M18 J5 (North Ings), 1.5 miles east.

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

Hatfield & Stainforth 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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