South Elmsall train station
You can reach 8 stations directly from South Elmsall on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Adwick, with 37 trains a day.
- 8 direct destinations
- 1,177th busiest in Britain
- Unstaffed
- Step-free in part
- 107 parking spaces
- 6 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from South Elmsall
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adwick | 37 | 36 | 30 |
| Bentley (South Yorkshire) | 37 | 36 | 30 |
| Doncaster | 37 | 36 | 30 |
| Fitzwilliam | 37 | 36 | 30 |
| Leeds | 37 | 36 | 30 |
| Outwood | 37 | 36 | 30 |
| Sandal and Agbrigg | 37 | 36 | 30 |
| Wakefield Westgate | 37 | 36 | 30 |
Lines serving South Elmsall
South Elmsall is on the Doncaster and Leeds Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through South Elmsall station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside South Elmsall station on 228 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 43 paths on the Wednesday, 26 paths on the Saturday and 3 paths on the Sunday. 28 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 Saturday, 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.
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Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless
How busy South Elmsall station is
288,510 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,177th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between South Elmsall and Doncaster than any other pair: 104,348 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
- Moorthorpe 0.8 miles
- Thurnscoe 3.5 miles
- Goldthorpe 4.4 miles
- Fitzwilliam 4.5 miles
- Adwick 4.6 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of South Elmsall, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Moorhouse and South Elmsall Halt · 0.9 miles
- Upton and North Elmsall · 1.1 miles
- Hampole · 2.2 miles
- Frickley · 2.3 miles
- Hemsworth and South Kirkby · 2.4 miles
- Hemsworth · 3.1 miles
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Facilities at South Elmsall station
South Elmsall is unstaffed, with step-free access to part of the station.
Parking at South Elmsall station
- Station Car Park 107 spaces, 6 accessible
Cycle parking: 5 spaces (lockers).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 27 August 2026.
Getting to South Elmsall station
South Elmsall station is in Wakefield, Yorkshire and The Humber, and is run by Northern Trains.
The nearest motorway junction is A1(M) J38 (Redhouse), 3.2 miles east.
6 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being South Elmsall Bus Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
South Elmsall 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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