Alverthorpe railway station served the village of

Alverthorpe Alverthorpe is a suburb of, and former village in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. History After the start of the Industrial Revolution woollen and worsted yarns were spun and woollen and worsted cloth woven in the mills and factories that ...

near

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in the

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county of

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History

Opened by the

Bradford, Wakefield and Leeds Railway The Bradford, Wakefield and Leeds Railway was an independent railway company that built a line between Wakefield and a junction close to Leeds, in Yorkshire, England. It opened its main line in 1857, and was worked by the Great Northern Railway. ...

, the station had two platforms. It became part of the

London and North Eastern Railway The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) was the second largest (after London, Midland and Scottish Railway, LMS) of the "Big Four (British railway companies), Big Four" railway companies created by the Railways Act 1921 in Britain. It ope ...

during the

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of 1923. The line then passed on to the

Eastern Region of British Railways The Eastern Region was a region of British Railways from 1948, whose operating area could be identified from the dark blue signs and colour schemes that adorned its station and other railway buildings. Together with the North Eastern Region (w ...

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in 1948, closing a mere six years later. Although the station was closed to normal passenger and freight traffic from 5 April 1954, passenger facilities were retained for special and excursion trains.

The site today

The station was situated on an embankment northeast of Batley Road, after the railway crossed over the road on a bridge near the junction with Grasmere Road. The location is marked by a row of terraced houses. Nothing now remains on site, and the two sides of the triangular junction northeast of the station that connected it with the line between Wakefield and Leeds 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

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Station on navigable O.S. map
Disused railway stations in Wakefield Former Great Northern Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1872 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1954 {{Yorkshire-Humber-railstation-stub