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Doncaster railway station is on the East Coast Main Line in England, serving the city of

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. It is down the line from and is situated between and on the main line. It is managed by London North Eastern Railway. It is a major passenger interchange between the main line,

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and local services running across the North of England. It is also the point for which London North Eastern Railway services branching off to diverge from the main route continuing north towards

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History

The railway station was built in 1849 replacing a temporary structure constructed a year earlier. It was rebuilt in its present form in 1938 and has had several slight modifications since that date, most notably in 2006, when the new interchange and connection to

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opened. In May 2015, construction commenced on a new

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to the north-east of the station adjacent to the Frenchgate Centre on the site of the former cattle dock. It is used by terminating

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services to

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, Bridlington and Scarborough. This allowed these services to operate independently of the East Coast Main Line. It is joined to the rest of the station via a fully accessible overbridge.

Station Masters

*G.R.H. Mullins 1849 – 1855 (afterwards stationmaster at Boston) *William Ruxton ca. 1863 *David Greenwood ???? – 1877 *James Bradford 1877 – 1878 *Charles Ratchelous 1878 – 1885 *James L. Rayner 1885 – 1892 *George Bolt ca. 1892 – 1896 *William Henry Lindsey 1896 – 1915 *Thomas Christopher 1915 – 1917 (formerly station master at Hatfield) *Fred Warriner 1917 – 1921 *Mr. Trotter 1921 – 1922 *George Herbert Gregory 1923 – 1933 *E.H. Fowler 1933 – 1937 *Edwin Oliver Wright 1937 – 1940 *R.P. Haw 1940 *J.E. Fisher ca. 1951

Platforms

The station has nine platforms on three islands. Platforms 1, 3, 4 and 8 can take through trains. Platforms 2 and 5 are south-facing bays; platforms 0, 6 and 7 are north facing bays. A first class lounge is available on platform 3A. * Platform 0 is used to take almost exclusively

services to and from

and Bridlington. The brand new platform opened on 12 December 2016. * Platform 1 is used by southbound London North Eastern Railway, Grand Central and Hull Trains services to

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. * Platform 2 has no scheduled trains. * Platform 3A is used by London North Eastern Railway, Grand Central and Hull Trains services to

* Platform 3B is used by

services to

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and TransPennine Express services to Manchester Piccadilly * ''Between platforms 3 and 4 are the high speed up and down lines to/from London'' * Platform 4 is used by northbound London North Eastern Railway services to

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, Newcastle and

, Grand Central services to

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, Hull Trains services to

through services to Bridlington and Scarborough and TransPennine Express services to Cleethorpes. Southbound CrossCountry services towards

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also use this platform. * Platform 5 is a bay platform used by East Midlands Railway services to Lincoln and

services to

* Platform 6 is a bay platform used by

services to

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. * Platform 7 is seldom in public use, but is used by

services to Scunthorpe when it is. * Platform 8 is used by northbound London North Eastern Railway services towards

; CrossCountry services to Newcastle; and

services in both directions – southbound to

and northbound to Adwick and Scunthorpe. Services towards

also use this platform. There were plans to add platforms 9 and 10 to cope with Eurostar trains but this project was cancelled when it was decided that Eurostar would not serve Britain outside the South East of England. There are presently no ticket barriers in operation at this station; however, on race days at Doncaster Racecourse, manual ticket checks are in operation in the subway. The station was refurbished in 2006 and is now directly connected to the

extension in Doncaster town centre. The station now has a new booking office for tickets and information, three new lifts, refurbished staircases and subway. There is a newsagent and some food outlets. More recently, interactive touch screens have been installed around the station by London North Eastern Railway services to provide information about local attractions, live departures and disruptions and station facilities. In addition, mobile phone charging points are now available on the concourse, touch screen and self-service ticketing machines have been installed across the concourse; the stairways to the subway have now been divided into two way systems to improve the flow of passengers during peak times. In a route study by

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, it was proposed that new platforms could be built on the western side of the station to meet expected demand in the future. In March 2019, it was revealed that there were plans, as part of the East Coast improvement programme in Control Period 6, to add an additional platform at Doncaster.

Accidents and incidents

* On 9 August 1947, a passenger train was in a rear-end collision with another due to a signalman's error. 18 people were killed and 188 were injured. * On 16 March 1951, a derailment occurred south of the station in which 14 passengers were killed and 12 seriously injured.

Services

Seven

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call at Doncaster, which is the highest number of companies in the UK and is also equal in number only to Crewe, and Edinburgh Waverley in the UK. These operators are the following: CrossCountry
CrossCountry operates a very limited service. One daily weekday service operates south to Banbury via

and two evening services run to

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. Sundays see three morning services heading south, two running to Bristol Temple Meads and one terminating at Birmingham New Street. Three daily weekday services operate north to Newcastle via

. On Sundays, there are no departures north. East Midlands Railway
East Midlands Railway operates a local service to Lincoln which occasionally extends to

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and

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. Grand Central
Grand Central operates services between

and King's Cross. Hull Trains
Hull Trains operates services between

and

via Selby. London North Eastern Railway
London North Eastern Railway offers regular (55 trains per day) services to

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, Newcastle,

and Glasgow Central. Northern Trains

generally offers services from Doncaster to

and

. TransPennine Express
TransPennine Express operates services eastbound to Cleethorpes, and westbound to Manchester Piccadilly. TransPennine services operate hourly in each direction generally.

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History

Station Masters

Platforms

Accidents and incidents

Services

See also

References

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