Darton railway station

Darton
Darton
	View of the station taken from platform 2
General information
Location	Darton, Barnsley; England
Coordinates	53°35′17″N 1°31′51″W / 53.5880°N 1.5309°W
Grid reference	SE311102
Managed by	Northern
Transit authority	South Yorkshire
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	DRT
Fare zone	Barnsley (SYPTE); 5 (WYPTE)
Classification	DfT category F1
History
Original company	Manchester and Leeds Railway
Pre-grouping	Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
1 January 1850	Station opened
Passengers
2018/19	0.165 million
2019/20	0.163 million
2020/21	50,352
2021/22	0.104 million
2022/23	0.102 million
Notes
	Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Darton railway station is a railway station in a large village of Darton, in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. Train services are provided by Northern.

The station was opened by the Manchester and Leeds Railway on 1 January 1850.^[1]

The railway station is in South Yorkshire but West Yorkshire Metro tickets are also valid to and from this station.^[2] The reason for this is that the West-South Yorkshire boundary historically ran between the village and its main source of employment, Woolley Colliery.^{[citation needed]}

The car park at the station was recently^[when?] reported by the local police force as having the highest incidence of vehicle break-ins in the Barnsley area, but the installation of CCTV is hoped to address this problem.

Facilities edit

The station is unstaffed and no longer has any permanent buildings aside from standard waiting shelters on each side (the old buildings were demolished after the station lost its staffing in 1970). Timetable posters and digital display screens provide train running information and there is step-free access to both platforms.^[3]

Services edit

There is an hourly service to Leeds via Wakefield Kirkgate and Castleford northbound and to Sheffield via Barnsley southbound (though the last northbound train each day terminates at Wakefield Kirkgate). The service is two-hourly in each direction on Sundays.^[4]

References edit

^ Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 77. ISBN 1-85260-508-1. R508.
^ Haigh, A J (2012). Railways in West Yorkshire - Leeds, Bradford, Wakefield, Huddersfield and the West Riding. Express Publishing. p. 76. ISBN 978-1-901056-44-0.
^ Darton station facilities National Rail Enquiries; Retrieved 25 January 2017
^ Table 27 National Rail timetable, May 2023