Wombwell railway station is a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...

serving the town of

Wombwell Wombwell () is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. In the 2011 census, data for the town was split between the ward of Wombwell and small sections that fell into the wards of Darfield (specifically the a ...

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, England. The station is north of

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on the

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and Penistone Lines. The station was opened by the

Midland Railway The Midland Railway (MR) was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1844 in rail transport, 1844. The Midland was one of the largest railway companies in Britain in the early 20th century, and the largest employer in Derby, where it had ...

on 1 July 1897, and between 25 September 1950 and 20 February 1969 was known as Wombwell West to distinguish it from Wombwell's other railway station, Wombwell Central, which closed in 1959. CCTV was recently installed for the purposes of crime prevention. Other recent improvements to the station include new signage, lighting, and, for the first time, installation of passenger information display screens to provide real-time service information. The station car park was extended in 2009 to give a total of 74 spaces for rail users.

Facilities

The only permanent buildings remaining at the station (which is unstaffed) are standard waiting shelters on each platform. Tickets can be bought in advance or at the self-service ticket machine. The aforementioned CIS displays provide train running information, along with timetable poster boards. There is step-free access to both platforms via ramps from the road above.

Services

Services currently run twice per hour Monday to Saturdays to

(hourly Sundays) and hourly to on the Penistone Line and

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via and on the Hallam Line respectively (two-hourly Sundays).GB National Rail Timetable May 2023 Edition, Table 27 One early morning northbound departure terminates at Barnsley and the last of the day at Wakefield Kirkgate.

Notes

Railway stations in Barnsley DfT Category F1 stations Former Midland Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1897 Railway stations served by Northern Wombwell {{Yorkshire-Humber-railstation-stub