Pontefract Monkhill train station
You can reach 23 stations directly from Pontefract Monkhill on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Knottingley, with 70 trains a day.
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Address: Pontefract, WF8 1JA
- 23 direct destinations
- 1,306th busiest in Britain
- Unstaffed
- Step-free in part
- 6 parking spaces
- 7 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Pontefract Monkhill
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Knottingley | 70 | 69 | 30 |
| Leeds | 68 | 67 | 30 |
| Wakefield Kirkgate | 39 | 39 | 19 |
| Castleford | 37 | 36 | 15 |
| Glasshoughton | 37 | 36 | 15 |
| Woodlesford | 37 | 36 | 15 |
| Featherstone | 33 | 33 | 15 |
| Pontefract Tanshelf | 33 | 33 | 15 |
| Streethouse | 33 | 33 | 15 |
| Wakefield Westgate | 33 | 33 | 15 |
| Bradford Interchange | 6 | 6 | 4 |
| Brighouse | 6 | 6 | 4 |
| Doncaster | 6 | 6 | 4 |
| Halifax | 6 | 6 | 4 |
| London King's Cross | 6 | 6 | 4 |
| Low Moor | 6 | 6 | 4 |
| Mirfield | 6 | 6 | 4 |
| Goole | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Hensall | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Rawcliffe | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Snaith | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Whitley Bridge | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Peterborough | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Lines serving Pontefract Monkhill
Pontefract Monkhill is on the Wakefield and Goole Line, the Pontefract Line and the Castleford and Pontefract Monkhill Line, each of which has its own page with the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Pontefract Monkhill station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Pontefract Monkhill station on 187 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 35 paths on the Wednesday, 15 paths on the Saturday and 7 paths on the Sunday. 64 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 10:00 to 11:00 on the Wednesday, with 4 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 Monkhill station is
228,628 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,306th busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 9,912 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Pontefract Monkhill and Leeds than any other pair: 134,406 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 23, a drop of about 26%. Saturday runs to 18.
Nearest other stations
- Pontefract Baghill 0.5 miles
- Pontefract Tanshelf 0.7 miles
- Glasshoughton 1.7 miles
- Knottingley 1.9 miles
- Featherstone 2.6 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Pontefract Monkhill, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Ferrybridge · 1.6 miles
- Castleford Cutsyke · 2.8 miles
- Ackworth · 3.1 miles
- Burton Salmon · 3.7 miles
- Ledston · 3.8 miles
- Methley South · 4.3 miles
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Facilities at Pontefract Monkhill station
Pontefract Monkhill is unstaffed, with step-free access to part of the station.
Parking at Pontefract Monkhill station
- Station Car Park 6 spaces
free
Cycle parking: 6 spaces (stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 23 April 2026.
Getting to Pontefract Monkhill station
Pontefract Monkhill station is in Wakefield, Yorkshire and The Humber, and is run by Northern Trains.
The nearest motorway junction is M62 J32A (Holmfield Interchange), 0.8 miles north.
7 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Mill Dam Lane.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Pontefract Monkhill 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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