Goldthorpe railway station

Goldthorpe
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Location
Place	Goldthorpe
Local authority	Barnsley
Coordinates
Grid reference	SE456043
Operations
Station code	GOE
Managed by	Northern Rail
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	49,420
2005/06	50,615
2006/07	45,950
2007/08	41,504
2008/09	50,336
2009/10	48,648
2010/11	54,554
2011/12	57,508
2012/13	53,798
2013/14	58,570
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	Travel South Yorkshire
Zone	Barnsley
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Goldthorpe from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
UK Railways portal

Goldthorpe railway station serves the village of Goldthorpe, in South Yorkshire, England. It lies on the Wakefield Line 14.25 miles (23 km) north of Sheffield railway station. It was opened in 1988.

Although it passed through the three settlements of Goldthorpe, neighbouring Thurnscoe and Bolton-on-Dearne, the Swinton & Knottingley Joint Railway only provided one station for the area, at Bolton; both the other settlements were served by stations on other lines. Until 1961 this station was called Bolton on Dearne for Goldthorpe and was served by Sheffield-York stopping services.

By the late 1980s the low demand for York-bound passengers meant that only a handful of stopping trains used the line. South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive, responding to increasing demand for Sheffield-Leeds passengers in the area, and a lack of capacity on the Sheffield-Barnsley-Leeds line, sponsored an hourly service via Bolton, and opened new stations at Goldthorpe and Thurnscoe.

Service

Monday to Saturday there is an hourly service to Sheffield southbound and to Leeds northbound. Sundays there is a two-hourly service in each direction

External links

• Train times and station information for Goldthorpe railway station from National Rail

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Bolton-on-Dearne		Northern Rail Wakefield Line		Thurnscoe