Featherstone railway station

Not to be confused with Featherston railway station.

Featherstone railway station serves the town of Featherstone in West Yorkshire, England. It lies on the Pontefract Line, operated by Northern Trains, 6 miles (10 km) east of Wakefield Kirkgate railway station.

Featherstone
The view from platform 1, 158905 in Northern livery arriving at platform 1 in September 2024
General information
Location	Featherstone, City of Wakefield England
Coordinates	53.6793°N 1.3574°W / 53.6793; -1.3574
Grid reference	SE425205
Managed by	Northern Trains
Transit authority	West Yorkshire Metro
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	FEA
Fare zone	3
Classification	DfT category F2
Key dates
1 April 1848 (1848-04-01)	Station opened
2 January 1967	Station closed
12 May 1992	Station reopened
Passengers
2019/20	76,146
2020/21	26,092
2021/22	62,352
2022/23	65,072
2023/24	81,502
Location
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

The current station was opened by West Yorkshire Metro on 12 May 1992 when the line between Wakefield and Pontefract was reopened. A previous station on the same site had been closed in January 1967 when passenger services between Wakefield and Pontefract were withdrawn as a result of the Beeching Axe.

Services

During Monday to Saturday, there are hourly train services to Leeds via Wakefield and to Knottingley via Pontefract Monkhill.^[1] There are now trains on Sundays. These run two-hourly between Knottingley and Leeds via Wakefield.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Streethouse		Northern Trains Pontefract Line		Pontefract Tanshelf