Hessle railway station serves the town of

Hessle Hessle () is a town, civil parish and electoral ward in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, west of Kingston upon Hull city centre. Geographically it is part of a larger urban area consisting of the city of Kingston upon Hull, the town of ...

in the

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. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by

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. This is the nearest station on the north bank of the

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to the Humber Bridge and good views of the structure can be had from the platforms when looking west. It was opened in 1840 by the Hull and Selby Railway and is west of . The platforms were originally aligned as to serve the outer lines only when the railway was quadrupled early in the 20th century, but following the removal of the outer lines in the early 1970s by

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, they were extended out to meet the surviving centre tracks.

Facilities

The station is unstaffed and it does have a ticket machine – intending passengers may still buy their ticket in advance or on the train. The main building is still present but not in railway use, though the old NER shelter on the eastbound side is still available (a more modern structure is provided on the other side). Step-free access is available to both platforms via ramps from the nearby road (east side) and the footbridge (west side). Timetable posters, passenger information screens and a telephone provide train running details.

Services

The station has the same service level as neighbouring Ferriby i.e. hourly in each direction on weekdays (with extras at peak times) to

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and . A limited number of trains to/from call at peak periods. There is now an hourly service on Sundays each way from mid-morning – an improvement on the limited one offered in years past.GB National Rail Timetable December 2022 Edition, Table 22

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Railway stations in the East Riding of Yorkshire DfT Category F2 stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1840 Northern franchise railway stations Hessle Former Hull and Selby Railway stations {{Yorkshire-Humber-railstation-stub