Ackworth railway station

Ackworth
General information
Location	Ackworth, City of Wakefield England
Coordinates	53°39′16″N1°18′48″W / 53.65458°N 1.31347°W / 53.65458; -1.31347
Grid reference	SE454177
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Swinton and Knottingley Joint Railway
Pre-grouping	Swinton and Knottingley Joint Railway
Post-grouping	Swinton and Knottingley Joint Railway
Key dates
1 July 1879	Station opens
2 July 1951	Station closes in effect
After 21 July 1959	Station closes officially

Ackworth railway station was a railway station serving Ackworth in the English county of West Yorkshire.

History

The station was opened in 1879 by the Swinton and Knottingley Joint Railway, which became a joint railway between the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. ^[1] The station then passed on to the Eastern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

The station was closed by British Railways to passengers in July 1951, but official closure was not completed until 21 July 1959. ^[2]

Site today

Trains pass on the Dearne Valley line, but there is no longer a station at Ackworth. ^[3]

References

1. Grant, Donald J. (2017). Directory of the railway companies of Great Britain. Kibworth Beauchamp: Matador. p. 551. ISBN   978-1785893-537.
2. Burgess, Neil (2014). The lost railways of Yorkshire's West Riding: the central section Bradford, Halifax, Huddersfield, Leeds, Wakefield. Catrine: Stenlake Publishing. p. 87. ISBN   9781840336573.
3. Body, Geoffrey (1985). Railways of the Eastern Region. Wellingborough: P. Stephens. p. 167. ISBN   0850597129.

• Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN   978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC   60251199. OL   11956311M.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN   978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC   228266687.
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN   978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC   22311137.

Service

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Moorthorpe and South Kirkby		LM&S / LNER Joint Line		Pontefract Baghill

External links

• Station on navigable O.S. map