Sherburn-in-Elmet railway station

Railway station in North Yorkshire, England

Sherburn-in-Elmet

View looking south

General information
Location| Sherburn in Elmet, North Yorkshire
England
Coordinates| 53°47′51″N 1°13′58″W﻿ / ﻿53.797400°N 1.232800°W﻿ / 53.797400; -1.232800
Grid reference| SE506337
Managed by| Northern Trains
Platforms| 2
Other information
Station code| SIE
Classification| DfT category F2
Key dates
1840| opened
13 September 1965| Closed
9 July 1984| Reopened
Passengers
2019/20|  74,756
2020/21|  19,078
2021/22|  70,994
2022/23|  83,266
2023/24|  0.100 million

Notes

Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Sherburn-in-Elmet railway station serves the town of Sherburn in Elmet in North Yorkshire, England. The station is located approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) from the town centre.

The railway through Sherburn-in-Elmet was opened in 1840 by the York and North Midland Railway. The station was closed on 13 September 1965[1] but reopened in 1984 by British Rail with local authority support.

Sherburn-in-Elmet is on both the Dearne Valley Line and the Hull-York Line towards Selby. Trains to/from the latter use the curve south of the station to the former Leeds and Selby Railway at Gascoigne Wood Junction, which was opened just a few months after the main Y&NMR route. This line became the main rail route between Hull and York after the route via Market Weighton and Beverley fell victim to the Beeching Axe in November 1965, though many of its trains were in turn diverted via the newly constructed north curve at Hambleton and the East Coast Main Line Selby Deviation when this opened in 1983. Since the mid-1990s though, several Hull - York trains have reverted to the old route to provide Sherburn with commuter links to and from York in the wake of cutbacks to the Dearne Valley line timetable (this had seven trains each way when the station reopened in 1984,[2] but now has only three - see below) and avoid the increasingly busy ECML. Since the winter 2023 timetable change, a small number of TransPennine Express services between York, Castleford and Manchester Piccadilly pass through the station each day apart from Sundays (the first such timetabled trains since January 1970). However, they do not stop here.

## Facilities

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The station is unstaffed and has waiting shelters on each platform (but no other permanent buildings).[1] Tickets must be bought in advance online, or from the Ticket Vending Machine (TVM) located inside the waiting shelter on the York-bound platform. Train running information is provided by timetable posters and telephone (a payphone is located on platform 2). The two platforms are linked by a barrier level crossing formerly used by road traffic - wheelchair users are advised not to use this due to gaps in the boards. There are access ramps to both platforms.[3]

## Services

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On Mondays to Saturdays, there are now eighteen trains per day to York on a basic hourly frequency - these mostly run from Bridlington via Hull and Selby, though three come from Sheffield via the Dearne Valley Line. A similar service level operates southbound, with thirteen trains to Selby, Hull and Bridlington, plus three to Sheffield.[4] Most of the extra trains call in the afternoon and evening, giving the station a much better service at those times.

On Sundays, there are eight trains to Hull, one to Selby and nine to York. No services run to or from Sheffield, though a single rail-replacement bus to Pontefract and Moorthorpe stops to pick up only in the early evening. This connects at Moorthorpe with a Leeds to Sheffield train. A balancing northbound service also runs but calls here only to set down passengers from the south.

Preceding station  |  National Rail | Following station

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Pontefract Baghill

| | Northern Trains

Dearne Valley Line

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Church Fenton

Selby

| | Northern Trains

Hull to York Line

Disused railways
Milford Junction

Line open, station closed

|   | North Eastern Railway

York and North Midland Railway

|   | Church Fenton

Line and station open

Gascoigne Wood Junction

Line open, station closed

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## References

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1. ^ a b Sherburn-in-Elmet Railway Station Thompson, N; Geograph.org; Retrieved 2013-12-09
2. ^ UK National Rail Timetable 1984-5 Edition, Table 33
3. ^ Sherburn-in-Elmet station facilities National Rail Enquiries; Retrieved 30 November 2016
4. ^ GB National Rail Timetable December 2023 Edition, Tables 22 and 30 (Network Rail)

## External links

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* Train times and station information for Sherburn-in-Elmet railway station from National Rail

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Railway stations in the former Selby District

National Rail|

* Church Fenton
* Hensall
* Selby
* Sherburn-in-Elmet
* South Milford
* Ulleskelf
* Whitley Bridge

Disused stations|

* Balne
* Barlow
* Bolton Percy
* Burton Salmon
* Carlton
* Cawood
* Cliffe Common
* Drax Abbey
* Drax Hales
* Duffield Gate
* Escrick
* Gascoigne Wood Junction
* Hambleton
* Heck
* Menthorpe Gate
* Milford Junction
* Monk Fryston
* Newton Kyme
* Riccall
* Selby Brayton Gates
* Skipwith
* Stutton
* Tadcaster
* Temple Hirst
* Thorganby
* Wistow

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