Darton railway station
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox station Darton railway station is a railway station in a large village of Darton, in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. Train services are provided by Northern Trains.
The station was opened by the Manchester and Leeds Railway on 1 January 1850.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
The railway station is in South Yorkshire but West Yorkshire Metro tickets are also valid to and from this station.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The reason for this is that the West-South Yorkshire boundary historically ran between the village and its main source of employment, Woolley Colliery.Template:Citation needed
The car park at the station was recentlyTemplate:When reported by the local police force as having the highest incidence of vehicle break-ins in the Barnsley area, but the installation of CCTV is hoped to address this problem.
Facilities
The station is unstaffed and no longer has any permanent buildings aside from standard waiting shelters on each side (the old buildings were demolished after the station lost its staffing in 1970). Timetable posters and digital display screens provide train running information and there is step-free access to both platforms.<ref>Darton station facilities National Rail Enquiries; Retrieved 25 January 2017</ref>
Services
There is an hourly service to Template:Rws via Template:Rws and Template:Rws northbound and to Template:Rws via Barnsley southbound (though the last northbound train each day terminates at Wakefield Kirkgate). The service is two-hourly in each direction on Sundays.<ref>Template:NRtimes</ref>
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