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Wakefield Kirkgate
Location
Place	Wakefield
Local authority	City of Wakefield
Operations
Managed by	Northern Rail
Platforms in use	3
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PTE	West Yorkshire (Metro)
Zone	3
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Wakefield Kirkgate Railway Station is a Railway station in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. It is older than the nearby Westgate station which serves a lot more destinations, especially places further afield. It is on the Hallam, Pontefract and Huddersfield lines.

The original Kirkgate station was opened by the Manchester and Leeds Railway in 1840, and it remained the only station in central Wakefield until Wakefield Westgate railway station was opened in 1867. The present building was erected in 1854.

The station currently consists of the main station building and platform and an island platform linked by a subway. Some demolition work took place in 1972, removing buildings on the central platform and a roof which covered the whole station. A wall remains as evidence of these buildings, with an original ironwork canopy.

Kirkgate station became a Grade II listed building in 1979.

Since Westgate station has been developed as the main rail station for Wakefield, Kirkgate has been neglected and some parts of the station are now in a poor state of repair. The station is unstaffed and the local consensus is that the current state of the facilities there puts the travelling public off using the station [[1]]. The station is owned by Network Rail, with Northern Rail leasing the facilities they use.

All services through this station are now (2007) operated by Northern Rail, having been split between Arriva Trains Northern and First North Western since the Privatisation.

Hallam Line - There are two trains per hour to Leeds and to Sheffield one express and one stopping service.

Huddersfield Line - There is an hourly service from Westgate to Huddersfield and beyond with no Sunday service.

Pontefract Line - There is an hourly service to Knottingley railway station via Pontefract Monkhill with no service on Sundays.

• Train times and station information for Wakefield Kirkgate railway station from National Rail
• Map and aerial photo of Wakefield Kirkgate railway station from Multimap.com

• Wakefield Council Report on the current state of the station, including photographs

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Darton		Northern Rail Hallam Line		Normanton
Wakefield Westgate		Northern Rail Huddersfield Line		Mirfield
Terminus		Northern Rail Pontefract Line		Streethouse

Railway stations in West Yorkshire
MetroTrain lines: ▐ Airedale • ▐ Caldervale • ║ Dearne Valley • ▐ Hallam Line • ▐ Harrogate • ▐ Hudderfield • ▐ Leeds-Bradford • ▐ Penistone • ▐ Pontefract • ▐ Wakefield • ▐ Wharfedale • ▐ York & Selby
Major stations:   Bradford Forster Square - Bradford Interchange - Halifax - Huddersfield - Leeds - Shipley - Wakefield Westgate
Other stations:  Baildon - Batley - Ben Rhydding - Berry Brow - Bingley - Bramley - Brockholes - Brighouse - Burley Park - Burley-in-Wharfedale - Castleford - Cottingley - Crossflatts - Cross Gates - Darton* - Deighton - Denby Dale - Dewsbury - East Garforth - Featherstone - Fitzwilliam - Frizinghall - Garforth - Glasshoughton - Guiseley - Headingley - Hebden Bridge - Honley - Horsforth - Ilkley - Keighley - Knottingley - Lockwood - Marsden - Menston - Micklefield - Mirfield - Moorthorpe - Morley - Mytholmroyd - New Pudsey - Normanton - Outwood - Pontefract Baghill - Pontefract Monkhill - Pontefract Tanshelf - Ravensthorpe - Saltaire - Sandal and Agbrigg - Shepley - Slaithwaite - South Elmsall - Sowerby Bridge - Steeton and Silsden - Stocksmoor - Streethouse - Todmorden - Wakefield Kirkgate - Walsden - Woodlesford
* Darton station is in South Yorkshire, however West Yorkshire Metro passes are valid to/from this station.
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