Elsecar railway station
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox station Elsecar railway station is a railway station serving the village of Elsecar in South Yorkshire, England. It is on the Penistone Line and Hallam Line served by Northern Trains. The station was opened by the Midland Railway in July 1897 and was at one time known as Elsecar & Hoyland.
CCTV was recently installed for the purposes of crime prevention. Other improvements to the station include new signage, lighting, and the installation of passenger information display screens to provide real-time service information.
A new 85-bay car park at the station was opened in November 2013 – funded by South Yorkshire PTE, this cost £500,000 and is located behind the northbound platform.<ref>"Elsecar Park and Ride to open"SYPTE press release 6 November 2013; Retrieved 17 January 2017</ref>
Facilities
Elsecar station is unstaffed and has no permanent buildings. Standard waiting shelters are provided on each side, along with a customer help point on platform 1. Train running information is offered via the display screens at the entrance to, and on the platforms and via timetable information posters. Step-free access is available to each platform via ramps,<ref>Elsecar station facilities National Rail Enquiries; Retrieved 17 January 2017</ref> there are two ramps to the Northbound platform. There are bicycle storage facilities on both platforms.
Ticket machines were installed on each platform in 2018, however these are currently out of use as of May 2021 due to vandalism.
Service
On weekdays and Saturdays by two trains per hour towards Template:Rws and two trains per hour to Template:Rws, one continuing to Template:Rws via Template:Rws and the other to Template:Rws via Template:Rws. The first northbound departure each day runs to Barnsley only, whilst the last northbound one terminates at Wakefield Kirkgate.<ref>Template:NRtimes</ref>
On Sundays, trains run every hour (approximately) to Sheffield and every two hours to Huddersfield and Leeds.
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See also
- Elsecar Steam Railway
- Earl Fitzwilliam's private railway station
- Rockingham (South Yorkshire) railway station