Knottingley train station

You can reach 15 stations directly from Knottingley on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Pontefract Monkhill, with 70 trains a day.

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• 15 direct destinations
• 1,528th busiest in Britain
• Unstaffed
• Step-free in part
• 25 parking spaces
• 8 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Knottingley

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

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Lines serving Knottingley

Knottingley is on the Pontefract Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Knottingley station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Knottingley station on 447 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 79 paths on the Wednesday, 41 paths on the Saturday and 17 paths on the Sunday. 109 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 20:00 to 21:00 on the Tuesday, with 7 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 Knottingley station is

156,292 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,528th busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Knottingley and Leeds than any other pair: 82,720 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: 10 stations instead of 15, a drop of about 33%. Saturday runs to 10.

Nearest other stations

• Pontefract Monkhill 1.9 miles
• Pontefract Baghill 2.1 miles
• Pontefract Tanshelf 2.6 miles
• Glasshoughton 3.4 miles
• Castleford 4.1 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Ferrybridge · 0.6 miles
• Burton Salmon · 2.7 miles
• Monk Fryston · 3.8 miles
• Womersley · 4.1 miles
• Ackworth · 4.2 miles
• Castleford Cutsyke · 4.4 miles

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Facilities at Knottingley station

Knottingley is unstaffed, with step-free access to part of the station.

Parking at Knottingley station

• Station Car Park 25 spaces
  free

Cycle parking: 8 spaces (sheltered, stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 17 April 2026.

Getting to Knottingley station

Knottingley station is in Wakefield, Yorkshire and The Humber, and is run by Northern Trains.

The nearest motorway junction is M62 J33 (Ferrybridge Interchange), 0.9 miles south-west.

8 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Holes Lane.

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

Knottingley 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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