Alverthorpe railway station

Alverthorpe railway station served the village of Alverthorpe near Wakefield in the English county of West Yorkshire.

Alverthorpe
General information
Location	Alverthorpe, City of Wakefield England
Coordinates	53.6878°N 1.5275°W / 53.6878; -1.5275
Grid reference	SE313213
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Great Northern Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Northern Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
October 1872	Station opens
5 April 1954	Station closes

History

Opened by the Bradford, Wakefield and Leeds Railway, the station had two platforms.^[1] It became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The line then passed on to the Eastern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948, closing a mere six years later. Although the station was closed to normal passenger and freight traffic from 5 April 1954, passenger facilities were retained for special and excursion trains.^[2]

The site today

The station was situated on an embankment northeast of Batley Road, after the railway crossed over the road on a bridge near the junction with Grasmere Road. The location is marked by a row of terraced houses.^[3] Nothing now remains on site, and the two sides of the triangular junction northeast of the station that connected it with the line between Wakefield and Leeds have been dismantled. Trains still use the eastern part of the triangle, bypassing the site between Outwood and Wakefield Westgate stations on the Wakefield Line.

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Flushdyke		London and North Eastern Railway Great Northern Railway		Lofthouse and Outwood
		London and North Eastern Railway Great Northern Railway		Wakefield Westgate

References

1. "View map: Yorkshire CCXLVIII.2 (Ossett; Stanley; Wakefield) - Ordnance Survey 25 inch England and Wales, 1841-1952". maps.nls.uk. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
2. "Alverthorpe station closing date". Yorkshire Post. 20 March 1954. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
3. "Adwalton Junction to Wakefield. 1864 - 1964". Lost Railways West Yorkshire.

• Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
• Station on navigable O.S. map