Elsecar railway station is a
railway station serving the village of
Elsecar in
South Yorkshire,
England. It is on the
Penistone Line
The Penistone Line is operated by Northern Trains in the West Yorkshire Metro and Travel South Yorkshire areas of northern England. It connects Huddersfield and Sheffield via Penistone and Barnsley, serving many rural communities. Metrocards ( ...
and
Hallam Line
The Hallam Line is a railway connecting Leeds and Sheffield via Castleford in the West Yorkshire Metro area of northern England. It is a slower route from Leeds to Sheffield than the Wakefield line. Services on this line are operated by Nort ...
served by
Northern Trains. The station was opened by the
Midland Railway in July 1897 and was at one time known as Elsecar & Hoyland.
CCTV was recently installed for the purposes of crime prevention. Other improvements to the station include new signage, lighting, and the installation of passenger information display screens to provide real-time service information.
A new 85-bay car park at the station was opened in November 2013 - funded by South Yorkshire PTE, this cost £500,000 and is located behind the northbound platform.
Facilities
Elsecar station is unstaffed and has no permanent buildings. Standard waiting shelters are provided on each side, along with a customer help point on platform 1. Train running information is offered via the display screens at the entrance to, and on the platforms and via timetable information posters. Step-free access is available to each platform via ramps, there are two ramps to the Northbound platform. There are bicycle storage facilities on both platforms.
Ticket machines were installed on each platform in 2018, however these are currently out of use as of May 2021 due to vandalism.
Service
On weekdays and Saturdays by two trains per hour towards and two trains per hour to , one continuing to via and the other to via . The first northbound departure each day runs to Barnsley only, whilst the last northbound one terminates at Wakefield Kirkgate.
On Sundays, trains run every hour (approximately) to Sheffield and every two hours to Huddersfield and Leeds.
See also
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Elsecar Steam Railway
The Elsecar Heritage Railway (EHR) is located on the southern part of the former South Yorkshire Railway freight-only branch which ran from Elsecar Junction on its Mexborough to Barnsley (borough), Barnsley Line.
The Elsecar Heritage railway, ...
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Earl Fitzwilliam's private railway station
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Rockingham (South Yorkshire) railway station
Rockingham (South Yorkshire) railway station is the terminus of the preserved line which is being built along the trackbed of the former Elsecar branch of the South Yorkshire Railway. The station is built within the Elsecar Heritage Centre, the ...
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Railway stations in Barnsley
DfT Category F1 stations
Former Midland Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1897
Northern franchise railway stations
Hoyland