Hensall train station
You can reach 10 stations directly from Hensall on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Castleford, with 3 trains a day.
Direct trains from Hensall
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Castleford | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Glasshoughton | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Goole | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Knottingley | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Leeds | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Pontefract Monkhill | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Rawcliffe | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Snaith | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Whitley Bridge | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Woodlesford | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Lines serving Hensall
Hensall is on the Wakefield and Goole Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Hensall station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Hensall station on 528 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 89 paths on the Wednesday, 68 paths on the Saturday and 23 paths on the Sunday. 176 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 04:00 to 05:00 on the Monday, with 8 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.
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Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless
How busy Hensall station is
580 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 2,563rd busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Hensall and Leeds than any other pair: 434 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
There is no Sunday service from Hensall. About one station in seventeen has none, so this is not unusual, but it is worth knowing before travelling.
Nearest other stations
- Whitley Bridge 1.8 miles
- Snaith 3.6 miles
- Knottingley 5.9 miles
- Selby 6.2 miles
- Rawcliffe 6.3 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Hensall, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Heck · 1.3 miles
- Temple Hirst · 1.7 miles
- Balne · 2.4 miles
- Womersley · 3.8 miles
- Carlton Towers · 4.1 miles
- Snaith and Pollington · 4.6 miles
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Facilities at Hensall station
Hensall is unstaffed, with step-free access to part of the station.
From National Rail's station record, last updated 8 June 2026.
Getting to Hensall station
Hensall station is in North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber, and is run by Northern Trains.
The nearest motorway junction is M62 J34 (Whitley Bridge Interchange), 1.4 miles west.
4 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Station View.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Hensall 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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