Wakefield Kirkgate train station

You can reach 49 stations directly from Wakefield Kirkgate on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Leeds, with 129 trains a day.

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• 49 direct destinations
• 782nd busiest in Britain
• Unstaffed
• Step-free throughout
• 43 parking spaces
• 3 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Wakefield Kirkgate

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

and 9 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Wakefield Kirkgate

Wakefield Kirkgate is on the Hallam Line and the Wakefield and Goole Line, each of which has its own page with the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Wakefield Kirkgate station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Wakefield Kirkgate station on 298 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 54 paths on the Wednesday, 25 paths on the Saturday and 7 paths on the Sunday. 89 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 12:00 to 13:00 on the Monday, with 5 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 Wakefield Kirkgate station is

611,788 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 782nd busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 209,305 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Wakefield Kirkgate and Leeds than any other pair: 71,172 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

• Wakefield Westgate 0.7 miles
• Sandal and Agbrigg 1.1 miles
• Outwood 2.7 miles
• Normanton 3.1 miles
• Streethouse 3.7 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Oakenshaw · 1.6 miles
• Alverthorpe · 1.7 miles
• Sandal and Walton · 2.1 miles
• Crofton · 2.1 miles
• Horbury Junction · 2.2 miles
• Horbury Millfield Road · 2.8 miles

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Facilities at Wakefield Kirkgate station

Wakefield Kirkgate is unstaffed, with step-free access to the whole station.

Waiting room

Parking at Wakefield Kirkgate station

• Carpark is now open as of 29th August 2015 43 spaces, 6 accessible
  £3.30 a day, £13.20 a week

Cycle parking: 6 spaces (sheltered, racks).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 27 August 2026.

Getting to Wakefield Kirkgate station

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

The nearest motorway junction is M1 J39 (Durkar Interchange), 2.3 miles south-west.

3 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Hepworth B Kirkgate Stn.

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

Wakefield Kirkgate 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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