Sandal and Walton railway station was opened on 1 June 1870 by the
Midland Railway on its line from
Derby to
Leeds Wellington Station.
The station was south of Wakefield, lying between
Sandal and
Walton in
West Yorkshire,
England.
It was of typical Midland brick-built construction. In 1926 the line was quadrupled, with the new goods lines passing to the east of the two platforms. It closed on 12 June 1961.
To the north of the station a junction had been built in 1868 with a curve to meet the
West Riding and Grimsby Railway jointly owned by the
MS&LR and the
GNR. This enabled goods services and southbound passenger trains to run from
Wakefield.
[Pixton, B., (2000) ''North Midland: Portrait of a Famous Route,'' Runpast Publishing] However this service finished during the
First World War.
References
External links
Sandal and Walton station on navigable O. S. map
Disused railway stations in Wakefield
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1870
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1961
Former Midland Railway stations
railway station
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