Hensall railway station
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Hensall railway station serves the village of Hensall in North Yorkshire, England. It is located on the Pontefract Line and is 22 miles (35 km) east of Leeds. The line is used regularly by the freight companies GB Railfreight, Freightliner and DB Cargo UK that transport coal and limestone to Drax and remove the gypsum created by the flue-gas treatment equipment. The branch line to the power plant diverges just to the east of the station and was formerly supervised from the nearby signal box, but is now remotely controlled from Ferrybridge signalling centre (see below).
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Location | Hensall, Selby England | ||||
Coordinates | 53.698500°N 1.114500°W / 53.698500; -1.114500 | ||||
Grid reference | SE585228 | ||||
Managed by | Northern Trains | ||||
Platforms | 2 | ||||
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Station code | HEL | ||||
Classification | DfT category F2 | ||||
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Opened | 1 April 1848 | ||||
Passengers | |||||
2018/19 | 252 | ||||
2019/20 | 170 | ||||
2020/21 | 94 | ||||
2021/22 | 150 | ||||
2022/23 | 376 | ||||
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