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Information on Wakefield Kirkgate Station
Wakefield has two railway station Westgate and Kirkgate with the former being the principle station for the City. Wakefield Kirkgate station is older than the nearby Westgate Mainline station and is currently an unstaffed station and served by mainly local trains. The station stands on the Hallam, Pontefract and Huddersfield lines.
Standing further from the centre of the City of Wakefield, the original Kirkgate station was opened by the Manchester and Leeds Railway in 1840 and remained the only station in Wakfield until Westgate was opened in 1867. The present station building dates from 1857 with a long stone frontage where the two-story conventional offices are linked by a facade with a decorative centre station entrance.
A subway leads from platform 1 to the island platforms 2 and 3.
In 1972 some demolition work took place removing some of the island buildings and the roof which covered the whole station, all that survives is a wall and the original ironwork canopy.
Network Rail demolished the former goods warehouse in January 2008 to make way for a new depot.
Stories of paranormal activity circulate about a ghostly figure of a woman in a Victorian dress seen wandering the subway between platforms 1 and 2.
The station is managed by Network Rail and leased to Northern Rail.
Information on train services from Wakefield Kirkgate Station
All services through the station are operated by Northern Rail as follows
- 3 tph to Leeds and to Sheffield two express and one stopping service.
- Hourly service from Westgate to Huddersfield with no Sunday service
- Hourly service to Knottingley via Pontefract Monkhill with no Sunday service
- Hourly service every day in both direction via Barnsley, Sheffield and Chesterfield
Grand Northern Trains
- A new service is due to start December 2009 between London Kings Cross and Bradford Interchange and calling at Doncaster, Pontefract Monkhill, Wakefield Kirkgate, Brighouse (for Huddersfield), Halifax and Bradford Interchange using Class 180 Adelante DMUs capable of 125mph running and offering first and standard class with a buffet service
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