RAILSCOT | Knottingley

Knottingley

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Knottingley

Station code: KNO National Rail
Where: Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, England
Opened on the Wakefield, Pontefract and Goole Railway.
Opened on the Burton Salmon to Knottingley Line (York and North Midland Railway).

Nearby stations Ferrybridge Pontefract Monkhill Pontefract Baghill Pontefract Tanshelf Burton Salmon Glasshoughton Castleford [1st] Monk Fryston Womersley Castleford Whitley Bridge Ackworth Milford [Yorkshire] Castleford (Cutsyke) Featherstone	Knottingley South Junction Knottingley Depot West Junction Works Powerstation Pontefract Goods Junction Ferrybridge C Power Station Brotherton Tunnel Kellingley Colliery Prince of Wales (Pontefract) Colliery Fryston Colliery Wheldale Colliery Whitley Bridge Watertroughs Glass Houghton Colliery Castleford Old Station Junction Breffits Works
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.

Chronology Dates

/ /1850	Great Northern Railway Doncaster to York via Askern (immediately north-west of Doncaster on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway) opened. GNR uses L&Y line from 4 miles north of Doncaster to Knottingley.
07/08/1850	Great Northern Railway Opened throughout. Route: London Maiden Lane (temporary terminus) to Boston to Lincoln (not via Peterborough to Retford) to Knottingley on North Midland Railway and not York itself.

News items

30/11/2022	Plans to re-open Don Valley Line and Askern Line in Yorkshire and restore passenger trains [Yorkshire Post]