page_title: Pontefract Monkhill railway station
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Pontefract Monkhill railway station / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Pontefract Monkhill Station 56 007 + guards van passing Pontefract Monkhill station.
context_page_description: Pontefract Monkhill railway station is the busiest station in the town of Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England. The station is on the Pontefract Line managed by Northern but is also served by Grand Central and is 14 miles south east of Leeds.
  The other stations in the town are Pontefract Tanshelf and Pontefract Baghill.
context_section_description: The lines to Leeds via Castleford and Wakefield Kirkgate separate immediately west of the station, which was opened by the Wakefield, Pontefract & Goole Railway (one of the constituent companies of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway) in April 1848. The branch to Castleford (Cutsyke) & Methley Junction was completed the following year (on 1 December) and a pair of short curves were subsequently constructed from the eastern end to link up with the Swinton & Knottingley Joint line following its opening in the spring of 1879.  One of these was used by passenger trains between Leeds & Pontefract Baghill until 1964, although it has since been lifted.  The Wakefield to Goole passenger service was withdrawn on 2 January 1967 (although trains to and from Goole continued, running instead to Castleford & Leeds) but the line remained open to carry coal to the power stations to the east of Knottingley.  Services on the Wakefield to Knottingley route were reinstated in May 1992.
caption: The station in 1987.
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