Wakefield Westgate train station
You can reach 77 stations directly from Wakefield Westgate on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Leeds, with 236 trains a day.
See Wakefield Westgate on the map
Wakefield Westgate is the nearest station for postcodes in WF1, WF2. Check your own postcode.
- 77 direct destinations
- 248th busiest in Britain
- Staffed full time
- Step-free throughout
- 900 parking spaces
- 6 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Wakefield Westgate
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leeds | 236 | 226 | 161 |
| Doncaster | 103 | 101 | 84 |
| Sheffield | 102 | 94 | 63 |
| Fitzwilliam | 75 | 76 | 60 |
| Outwood | 75 | 76 | 60 |
| Sandal and Agbrigg | 73 | 75 | 60 |
| London King's Cross | 66 | 65 | 53 |
| Bolton-upon-Dearne | 38 | 40 | 30 |
| Goldthorpe | 38 | 40 | 30 |
| Meadowhall Interchange | 38 | 40 | 30 |
| Moorthorpe | 38 | 40 | 30 |
| Rotherham Central | 38 | 40 | 30 |
| Swinton (South Yorkshire) | 38 | 40 | 30 |
| Thurnscoe | 38 | 40 | 30 |
| Adwick | 37 | 36 | 30 |
| Bentley (South Yorkshire) | 37 | 36 | 30 |
| Newark Northgate | 37 | 36 | 30 |
| South Elmsall | 37 | 36 | 30 |
| Grantham | 34 | 33 | 28 |
| Peterborough | 34 | 33 | 28 |
| Stevenage | 34 | 33 | 29 |
| Featherstone | 33 | 33 | 15 |
| Knottingley | 33 | 33 | 15 |
| Pontefract Monkhill | 33 | 33 | 15 |
| Pontefract Tanshelf | 33 | 33 | 15 |
| Streethouse | 33 | 33 | 15 |
| Wakefield Kirkgate | 33 | 33 | 15 |
| Birmingham New Street | 32 | 21 | 5 |
| Chesterfield | 32 | 6 | 5 |
| Derby | 32 | 22 | 5 |
| Cheltenham Spa | 29 | 0 | 0 |
| York | 29 | 2 | 0 |
| Darlington | 28 | 0 | 0 |
| Durham | 28 | 0 | 0 |
| Newcastle | 28 | 0 | 0 |
| Bristol Parkway | 27 | 0 | 0 |
| Bristol Temple Meads | 27 | 0 | 0 |
| Edinburgh Waverley | 26 | 0 | 0 |
| Berwick-upon-Tweed | 25 | 0 | 0 |
| Exeter St Davids | 24 | 0 | 0 |
and 37 more stations, each served less often.
Lines serving Wakefield Westgate
Wakefield Westgate 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 Wakefield Westgate station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Wakefield Westgate station on 18 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 3 paths on the Wednesday, no paths on the Saturday and 1 path on the Sunday. 6 of them run whatever the traffic; the rest are held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move.
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 Wakefield Westgate station is
2,333,910 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 248th busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 116,315 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Wakefield Westgate and Leeds than any other pair: 819,990 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: 40 stations instead of 77, a drop of about 48%. Saturday runs to 45.
Changing from 14 April 2027
From 14 April 2027, Wakefield Westgate gains 24 destinations including Weston-super-Mare, Leuchars, Cupar, Ladybank, Basingstoke, Southampton Central.
Nearest other stations
- Wakefield Kirkgate 0.7 miles
- Sandal and Agbrigg 1.7 miles
- Outwood 2.3 miles
- Normanton 3.6 miles
- Streethouse 4.4 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Wakefield Westgate, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Alverthorpe · 1.0 miles
- Horbury Junction · 1.9 miles
- Oakenshaw · 2.3 miles
- Horbury Millfield Road · 2.4 miles
- Flushdyke · 2.5 miles
- Sandal and Walton · 2.6 miles
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Facilities at Wakefield Westgate station
Wakefield Westgate is staffed full time, with step-free access to the whole station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:00 to 19:00 · Saturday: 07:00 to 19:00 · Sunday: 09:00 to 16:00
Toilets
Parking at Wakefield Westgate station
- Multi Storey Car Park 900 spaces, 19 accessible
£0.90 an hour, £11.50 a day, £46.00 a week - Forecourt
£2.00 an hour
Cycle parking: 30 spaces (sheltered, stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 17 August 2026.
Getting to Wakefield Westgate station
Wakefield Westgate station is in Wakefield, Yorkshire and The Humber, and is run by London North Eastern Railway.
The nearest motorway junction is M1 J40 (Flushdyke Interchange), 2.0 miles west.
6 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Westgate D.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Wakefield Westgate 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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