Adwick railway station

Adwick railway station serves the communities of Adwick le Street and Carcroft, in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. Located on the line linking Leeds to Doncaster via Wakefield, immediately south-east of the point where it passes beneath Church Lane, the present station is the second to serve Adwick: the first, the main building of which still stands, lay on the other side of the present road bridge.

Adwick
Adwick Station in mid 2008
Location	Adwick le Street, Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster England
Coordinates	53.5719°N 1.1797°W
Grid reference	SE544086
Managed by	Northern
Transit authority	South Yorkshire
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	AWK
Fare zone	Doncaster
Classification	DfT category F1
Key dates
March 1866	Station opens as Adwick
1867	Station renamed Adwick-le-Street and Carcroft
1 May 1880	Station renamed Carcroft and Adwick-le-Street
6 November 1967	Station closes
11 October 1993	New station opens as Adwick on new site
Passengers
2015/16	0.206 million
2016/17	0.198 million
2017/18	0.187 million
2018/19	0.171 million
2019/20	0.184 million
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

History

Opened in March 1866 as an intermediate stop on the West Riding and Grimsby Railway's main line from Wakefield Westgate to Doncaster, the station was at first called "Adwick-le-Street and Carcroft"; the name was changed in 1880 to "Carcroft and Adwick-le-Street".

The station's main building, which still stands today – though no longer part of the present station – comprised a booking office, waiting room, and station master's house. Situated on the Doncaster-bound (up) platform, it was constructed of rock-faced stone, with hipped roofs and a spire which was part of the living quarters. The Leeds-bound (down) platform was served by a small wooden, enclosed waiting shelter. This station was closed for goods traffic in June 1965 and for passengers in November 1967.

Adwick was reopened, with new platforms to the south-east of the original station site, by the South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive and British Rail in 1993.

Facilities

The station is listed as being unstaffed on the National Rail website, but it has a staffed travel centre (run by SYPTE) that sells rail tickets.[1] There are waiting rooms, CIS displays and timetable poster boards on both platforms; step-free access to both sides is via a ramped footbridge at the north end or lifts in the other footbridge at the south end.[2]

Services

Within reach of the A1 Junctions 37 and 38 and just off the A638, Adwick station provides a park and ride for Doncaster and a commuting station for Wakefield and Leeds. The station has ample free parking.

Northern operates an hourly Doncaster to Leeds service that stops here. During Monday to Saturday daytime, an hourly service also operates between Adwick and Sheffield (with the DMU running empty to nearby Skellow Junction to reverse), thus providing a 2-train-per-hour service to Bentley and Doncaster. In the evenings and on Sundays (both hourly) the station is served only by the Doncaster to Leeds stopping trains.[3]

Notes

1. Adwick Interchange Travel Centre (2009) Rogerson, Richard Geograph.org; Retrieved 23 January 2017
2. Adwick station facilities National Rail Enquiries; Retrieved 23 January 2017
3. GB eNRT December 2019 Edition, Tables 29 & 31 (Network Rail)

References

• Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
• Jowett, A. (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas. Atlantic Publishing. ISBN 0-906899-99-0.

External links

• Train times and station information for Adwick railway station from National Rail
• Adwick station on navigable O. S. map