Pontefract Baghill train station
You can reach 12 stations directly from Pontefract Baghill on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Church Fenton, with 6 trains a day.
See Pontefract Baghill on the map
Address: Station Lane, Pontefract, WF8 1QR
Pontefract Baghill is the nearest station for postcodes in WF8. Check your own postcode.
- 12 direct destinations
- 2,298th busiest in Britain
- Unstaffed
- Step-free throughout
- 8 parking spaces
- 3 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Pontefract Baghill
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Church Fenton | 6 | 6 | 4 |
| Meadowhall Interchange | 6 | 6 | 2 |
| Moorthorpe | 6 | 6 | 4 |
| Rotherham Central | 6 | 6 | 3 |
| Sheffield | 6 | 6 | 4 |
| Sherburn-in-Elmet | 6 | 6 | 4 |
| Swinton (South Yorkshire) | 6 | 6 | 4 |
| Ulleskelf | 6 | 6 | 4 |
| York | 6 | 6 | 4 |
| Bolton-upon-Dearne | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Goldthorpe | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Thurnscoe | 3 | 2 | 1 |
Freight through Pontefract Baghill station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Pontefract Baghill station on 103 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 19 paths on the Wednesday, 7 paths on the Saturday and 2 paths on the Sunday. 18 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 02:00 to 03:00 on the Monday, with 3 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 Pontefract Baghill station is
18,130 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 2,298th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Pontefract Baghill and York than any other pair: 8,268 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.
Nearest other stations
- Pontefract Monkhill 0.5 miles
- Pontefract Tanshelf 0.7 miles
- Glasshoughton 2.0 miles
- Knottingley 2.1 miles
- Featherstone 2.4 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Pontefract Baghill, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Ferrybridge · 1.9 miles
- Ackworth · 2.6 miles
- Castleford Cutsyke · 3.1 miles
- Burton Salmon · 4.1 miles
- Ledston · 4.2 miles
- Sharlston · 4.4 miles
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Facilities at Pontefract Baghill station
Pontefract Baghill is unstaffed, with step-free access to the whole station.
Parking at Pontefract Baghill station
- Station Car Park 8 spaces
free
From National Rail's station record, last updated 27 August 2026.
Getting to Pontefract Baghill station
Pontefract Baghill station is in Wakefield, Yorkshire and The Humber, and is run by Northern Trains.
The nearest motorway junction is M62 J33 (Ferrybridge Interchange), 1.2 miles north-east.
3 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Hospital G Baghill Stn.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Pontefract Baghill 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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