Church Fenton railway station
Church Fenton 
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Church Fenton station in 1970
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| Location | |
| Place | Church Fenton |
| Local authority | Selby |
| Coordinates | 53°49′35″N 1°13′39″W / 53.8263°N 1.2275°WCoordinates: 53°49′35″N 1°13′39″W / 53.8263°N 1.2275°W |
| Grid reference | SE509369 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | CHF |
| Managed by | Northern |
| Number of platforms | 4 |
| DfT category | F2 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 72,906 |
| – Interchange |
 753 |
| 2012/13 |
72,370 |
| – Interchange |
1,187 |
| 2013/14 |
69,230 |
| – Interchange |
1,042 |
| 2014/15 |
66,888 |
| – Interchange |
690 |
| 2015/16 |
71,354 |
| – Interchange |
771 |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Church Fenton from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Church Fenton railway station serves Church Fenton in North Yorkshire, England. It is on the former York and North Midland Railway main line from York to Normanton, just under 10.75 miles (17 km) from York.
The Y&NMR opened the first part of its route through the village (and on as far as Milford) on 29 May 1839, completing it the following year. On completion of a branch from there to Harrogate via Wetherby and Tadcaster by the Y&NM in 1848 a new station on a slightly different site gave it new importance and within two years it had become a calling point on the new East Coast Main Line from York to London with the opening of a line from Burton Salmon to Knottingley (trains then continuing via Askern and Doncaster).
Further development of the station occurred in 1869, when a 5-mile (8.0 km) link was opened by the North Eastern Railway from there to Micklefield on the former Leeds and Selby Railway to create a new main line between Leeds and York. The NER had been looking to shorten the previous, indirect route between the two cities via Castleford for some time prior to this, but plans to build a line via Tadcaster had come to nothing and so this alternative route was chosen. The existing line from here to York was subsequently quadrupled to handle the increased levels of traffic and the station substantially altered, with the addition of extra platforms and connections between the two pairs of lines. The station lost its ECML status in 1871 when the new direct line from York to Doncaster via Selby was opened, but trains from London to Harrogate continued to call and yet another addition to the list of routes serving the station came in 1879 when the Swinton and Knottingley Joint Railway line via Pontefract Baghill and Ferrybridge was opened. In connection with the quadrupling of the lines the present station was opened in 1904 slightly south of the second station.
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