Castleford railway station
Castleford 
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Platform 1
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| Location | |
| Place | Castleford |
| Local authority | City of Wakefield |
| Coordinates | 53°43′26″N 1°21′18″W / 53.724°N 1.355°WCoordinates: 53°43′26″N 1°21′18″W / 53.724°N 1.355°W |
| Grid reference | SE426254 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | CFD |
| Managed by | Northern |
| Number of platforms | 2 (1 disused) |
| DfT category | F1 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 0.417 million |
| – Interchange |
11,101 |
| 2012/13 |
0.538 million |
| – Interchange |
 10,627 |
| 2013/14 |
0.555 million |
| – Interchange |
13,079 |
| 2014/15 |
0.566 million |
| – Interchange |
7,403 |
| 2015/16 |
0.575 million |
| – Interchange |
8,724 |
| Passenger Transport Executive | |
| PTE | West Yorkshire Metro |
| Zone | 3 |
| History | |
| Key dates | Opened 1871 (current station) |
| Original company | York and North Midland Railway |
| Pre-grouping | North Eastern Railway |
| Post-grouping | London and North Eastern Railway |
| 1 July 1840 | First station opened as Castleford |
| 1871 | Station resited |
| 15 September 1952 | Renamed Castleford Central |
| 20 February 1969 | Renamed Castleford |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Castleford from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Castleford railway station is a railway station serving the town of Castleford in West Yorkshire. It lies on the Hallam and the Pontefract Lines 11 miles (18 km) south east of Leeds.
Although originally built as a through station, regular passenger services beyond Castleford towards York were discontinued in January 1970. Today, all trains calling at the station reverse here, arriving and departing from the former northbound platform 1. Platform 2 is currently out of use & inaccessible, though it was brought back into use temporarily during the Leeds First project in 2002 when Transpennine services between York and Huddersfield were diverted to avoid engineering work in Leeds, routed via Church Fenton, Castleford and Wakefield Kirkgate. It may also be brought back into use on a more permanent basis to help accommodate extra peak hour services if Network Rail proceed with plans mooted in the recent Yorkshire & Humberside RUS. The route from Church Fenton continues to be used for freight traffic, empty stock transfers, special trains and such engineering and other out-of-course diversions as required (such as in the summer of 2008, when all Sunday services between Leeds and York/Hull were routed this way due to work near Micklefield).
West Yorkshire Metro, has been developing plans to relocate Castleford bus station to a new site next to the railway station, and to create a fully integrated and staffed transport interchange. In October 2014, work on the new £6 million bus station was started and it opened to the public in February 2016.
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