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Castleford
Location type
Station
Name and dates
Castleford
Station code: CFD
National Rail
Where: Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, England
Opened on the
York and North Midland Railway
.
Opened on the
Castleford to Garforth (North Eastern Railway) and Allerton Main Colliery
.
Nearby stations
Castleford [1st]
Castleford (Cutsyke)
Glasshoughton
Ledston
Methley South
Methley Junction (L and Y)
Bowers
Altofts
Pontefract Tanshelf
Methley North
Pontefract Monkhill
Kippax
Pontefract Baghill
Featherstone
Normanton
Moss Street Works
Castleford Old Station Junction
Breffits Works
Cutsyke Junction
Glass Houghton Colliery
Wheldale Colliery
Whitwood Junction
Whitwood and Saville Colliery
Allerton Bywater Colliery
Lofthouse Junction
Methley Junction
Fryston Colliery
Don Pedro Colliery
Prince of Wales (Pontefract) Colliery
Colliery
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.
News items
11/12/2023
Castleford to York direct trains to run on route again after 50 years [BBC News]
19/10/2022
Second life for Castleford's forgotten platform [Network Rail]
Books
A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: Vol. 8 South and West Yorkshire, the industrial West Riding.
British Railways Past and Present No. 11: North Yorkshire (Part 1): York and Selby, the Dales and Skipton to Garsdale: York and Selby, the Dales and Skipton to Garsdale Pt.1
British Railways Past and Present: North Yorkshire, Pt.1: York and Selby, the Dales and Skipton to Garsdale No. 11
North Eastern Railway
Rail Centres: York
Rail Centres: York, No. 2
Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: South and West Yorkshire v. 8 (A regional history of the railways of Great Britain)
Steam Around York & the East Riding
The Last Years of Yorkshire Steam
The North Eastern Railway
The Railways of York: A Pictorial Celebration (Silver Link Silk Edition)
This is York: Major Railway Centre
York (Britain's Rail Super Centres)
York (NE) & Heworth 1889: Yorkshire Sheet 174.07a (Old Ordnance Survey Maps of Yorkshire)
York and its Railways - 1839-1950
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