Whitley Bridge railway station serves the villages of

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and Whitley in

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, England. It is located on the Pontefract Line and is east of . It was opened by the

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in 1848, on their line between and

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via .

Facilities

The station is unmanned and has only basic amenities – no permanent buildings remain other than standard glass and metal shelters on each platform. There is a single customer help point on platform 1 (eastbound) and timetable posters on both sides to provide train running information. No ticket facilities are provided, so passengers can buy their tickets either on the train or at their destination. Step-free access is available to both platforms via the

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at the Goole end of the station.

Services

Whitley Bridge has a limited service – Monday to Saturdays, one (early evening) train a day goes to

and two per day go to Leeds (one in the morning business peak and the other mid-evening). There is no Sunday service. Trains operate on Bank holidays. The sparse timetable continues to operate mainly to meet

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's franchise obligations and to avoid the need for the Knottingley to Goole line to be put through the formal closure process. The line is however also used for freight traffic to/from Drax Power Station.

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Railway stations in North Yorkshire DfT Category F2 stations Former Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway stations Northern franchise railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1848 {{Yorkshire-Humber-railstation-stub