Ackworth railway station

Ackworth
Location
Place	Ackworth
Area	City of Wakefield
Coordinates	53°39′16″N 1°18′48″W / 53.65458°N 1.31347°W / 53.65458; -1.31347Coordinates: 53°39′16″N 1°18′48″W / 53.65458°N 1.31347°W / 53.65458; -1.31347
Grid reference	SE454177
Operations
Original company	Swinton and Knottingley Joint Railway
Pre-grouping	Swinton and Knottingley Joint Railway
Post-grouping	Swinton and Knottingley Joint Railway
Platforms	2
History
1 July 1879	Station opens
2 July 1951	Station closes in effect
After 21 July 1959	Station closes officially
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Ackworth railway station was a railway station serving Ackworth in the English county of West Yorkshire.

History

The station was opened 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. The station then passed on to the Eastern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

The station was then closed by British Railways.

Site today

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

References

• Butt, R. V. J. (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 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199. 
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. 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 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137. 

Service

External links

• Station on navigable O.S. map