Goldthorpe railway station serves the village of

Goldthorpe Goldthorpe is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, in South Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire. It was anciently a small medieval farming village, Goldthorpe is recorded in the ''Domesday Boo ...

, in

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. It lies on the Wakefield Line north of

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. It was opened in May 1988. Although it passed through the three settlements of Goldthorpe, neighbouring

Thurnscoe Thurnscoe is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, metropolitan borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. The village falls within the Dearne North ward of the Barnsley MBC. Historic counties of England, Historically within ...

and Bolton upon Dearne, the Swinton & Knottingley Joint Railway only provided one station for the area, at

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; both the other settlements were served by stations on other lines. Until 1961 this station was called ''Bolton on Dearne for Goldthorpe'' and was served by Sheffield-York stopping services. By the late 1980s the low demand for York-bound passengers meant that only a handful of stopping trains used the line.

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, responding to increasing demand for Sheffield-Leeds passengers in the area, and a lack of capacity on the Sheffield-Barnsley-Leeds line, sponsored an hourly service via Bolton to & , and opened new stations at Goldthorpe and Thurnscoe.

Facilities

The layout here is very similar to neighbouring (and other stations opened on the same route, e.g. and ), namely two wooden platforms with basic shelters on each side. The station is unmanned and has a ticket machine, so tickets can be purchased at the station or on the train. Digital display screens and timetable posters provide train running information. Step-free access is available to both platforms via ramps from the nearby road.

Service

Monday to Saturday there is an hourly service to and Sheffield southbound and northbound. A similar frequency operates on Sundays, though starting later in the morning.

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