Alverthorpe railway station

Alverthorpe
Location
Place	Alverthorpe
Area	City of Wakefield
Coordinates	53°41′16″N 1°31′39″W / 53.6878°N 1.5275°W / 53.6878; -1.5275Coordinates: 53°41′16″N 1°31′39″W / 53.6878°N 1.5275°W / 53.6878; -1.5275
Grid reference	SE313213
Operations
Original company	Great Northern Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Northern Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Platforms	?
History
October 1872	Station opens
5 April 1954	Station closes
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Alverthorpe railway station served the village of Alverthorpe near Wakefield in the English county of West Yorkshire.

History

Opened by the Great Northern Railway, it became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The line then passed on to the Eastern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948, closing a mere six years later.

The site today

Nothing now remains on site and the two sides of the railway triangle that brought trains to the station have been dismantled. Trains still use the eastern part of the triangle, bypassing the site between Outwood and Wakefield Westgate stations on the Wakefield Line.

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. 
• Station on navigable O.S. map