Kirk Sandall railway station serves the suburb of

Kirk Sandall Kirk Sandall is an outer suburb of Doncaster, located around north-east of the city centre in the English county of South Yorkshire South Yorkshire is a ceremonial county, ceremonial and metropolitan county, metropolitan county in the ...

Doncaster Doncaster (, ) is a city in South Yorkshire, England. Named after the River Don, it is the administrative centre of the larger City of Doncaster. It is the second largest settlement in South Yorkshire after Sheffield. Doncaster is situated in ...

South Yorkshire South Yorkshire is a ceremonial and metropolitan county in the Yorkshire and Humber Region of England. The county has four council areas which are the cities of Doncaster and Sheffield as well as the boroughs of Barnsley and Rotherham. In N ...

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. The station is north of

on the

South Humberside Main Line The South Humberside Main Line runs from Doncaster on the East Coast Main Line to Thorne where it diverges from the Sheffield to Hull Line. It then runs eastwards to Scunthorpe and the Humber ports of Immingham and Grimsby, with the coastal res ...

. The current station opened by

British Rail British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most of the overground rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the Big Four British rai ...

in 1991 and is not on the site of the original station, which was about up the line eastwards.

Facilities

The station consists of a single concrete

island platform An island platform (also center platform, centre platform) is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway interchange. Island platforms are popular on ...

located between the inner 'fast' lines on the quad track section of route between Marshgate Junction, Doncaster and Thorne Junction. It is unstaffed but there is a ticket machine near to the car park entrance. A single waiting shelter is the only structure on the platform apart from bench seating, timetable posters and customer information screens. Both platforms are fully accessible by means of a long inclined ramp from the main entrance on the road above.

Service

The station provides an hourly service eastbound to

Scunthorpe Scunthorpe () is an industrial town and unparished area in the unitary authority of North Lincolnshire in Lincolnshire, England of which it is the main administrative centre. Scunthorpe had an estimated total population of 82,334 in 2016. A pre ...

and Hull during the daytime Monday through Saturday. Westbound service comprises two trains per hour to Doncaster. There are no longer any regular services to Meadowhall and since the spring 2019 timetable change apart from a single late evening working. Passengers must change at Doncaster for onward connections.

TransPennine Express TransPennine Express (TPE), legally First TransPennine Express Limited, is a British train operating company owned by FirstGroup that operates the TransPennine Express franchise. It runs regional and inter-city rail services between the major ci ...

serves the station with a single eastbound Monday-Saturday service to in the late evening. There is no return service westbound. In February 2013 the line northeast of

Hatfield and Stainforth station Hatfield and Stainforth railway station serves the towns of Hatfield and Stainforth in South Yorkshire, England. It is located north east of the main station. The original station, known until the 1990s as "Stainforth and Hatfield" and was ...

towards Thorne was blocked by the

Hatfield Colliery landslip Hatfield Colliery, also known as Hatfield Main Colliery, was a colliery in the South Yorkshire Coalfield, mining the High Hazel coal seam. The colliery was around northwest of Hatfield, South Yorkshire, adjacent north of the railway line from D ...

, with all services over the section halted. The line reopened in July 2013.

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