Pontefract Tanshelf train station

You can reach 7 stations directly from Pontefract Tanshelf on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Featherstone, with 33 trains a day.

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Address: Park Road, Pontefract, WF8 4PQ

7 direct destinations
1,767th busiest in Britain
Unstaffed
Step-free throughout
22 parking spaces
5 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Pontefract Tanshelf

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

Destination	Weekday	Saturday	Sunday
Featherstone	33	33	15
Knottingley	33	33	15
Pontefract Monkhill	33	33	15
Streethouse	33	33	15
Wakefield Westgate	33	33	15
Wakefield Kirkgate	33	33	15
Leeds	31	31	15

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Lines serving Pontefract Tanshelf

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

Freight through Pontefract Tanshelf station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Pontefract Tanshelf station on 154 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 28 paths on the Wednesday, 15 paths on the Saturday and 5 paths on the Sunday. 49 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 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 Tanshelf station is

98,558 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,767th busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Pontefract Tanshelf and Leeds than any other pair: 57,926 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.