Wombwell railway station
Wombwell 
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| Location | |
| Place | Wombwell |
| Local authority | Barnsley |
| Coordinates | 53°31′03″N 1°24′59″W / 53.5175°N 1.4164°WCoordinates: 53°31′03″N 1°24′59″W / 53.5175°N 1.4164°W |
| Grid reference | SE387024 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | WOM |
| Managed by | Northern |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| 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 |
 0.196 million |
| 2012/13 |
0.204 million |
| 2013/14 |
0.214 million |
| 2014/15 |
0.233 million |
| 2015/16 |
 0.224 million |
| Passenger Transport Executive | |
| PTE | Travel South Yorkshire |
| Zone | Barnsley |
| History | |
| Original company | Midland Railway |
| Pre-grouping | Midland Railway |
| Post-grouping | London, Midland and Scottish Railway |
| 1 July 1897 | Opened as Wombwell |
| 25 September 1950 | Renamed Wombwell West |
| 20 February 1969 | Renamed Wombwell |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Wombwell from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Wombwell railway station lies in Wombwell, a town south of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. The station is 12 miles (19 km) north of Sheffield on the Hallam and Penistone Lines. The station was opened by the Midland Railway on 1 July 1897, and between 25 September 1950 and 20 February 1969 was known as Wombwell West to distinguish it from Wombwell's other railway station, Wombwell Central, which closed in 1959.
CCTV was recently installed for the purposes of crime prevention. Other recent improvements to the station include new signage, lighting, and, for the first time, installation of passenger information display screens to provide real-time service information.
The station car park was extended in 2009 to give a total of 74 spaces for rail users.
There are no permanent buildings remaining at the station (which is unmanned), aside from standard waiting shelters on each platform. Tickets can be bought in advance or on the train and there is ticketing facilities available by way of a machine on the car park side. The aforementioned CIS displays provide train running information, along with timetable poster boards. There is step-free access to both platforms via ramps from the road above.
Services currently run twice per hour Monday to Saturdays to Sheffield (hourly Sundays) and hourly to Huddersfield on the Penistone Line and Leeds via Wakefield Kirkgate and Castleford on the Hallam Line respectively (two-hourly Sundays). A single southbound through train to Nottingham calls here on Saturday mornings only at 06.22.
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