Elsecar railway station


Elsecar railway station is a railway station in Elsecar, near Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. It is based on the Penistone Line and Hallam Line served by Northern Trains. The station was opened by the Midland Railway in July 1897 and was at one time known as Elsecar & Hoyland.
CCTV was recently installed for the purposes of crime prevention. Other improvements to the station include new signage, lighting, and the installation of passenger information display screens to provide real-time service information.
A new 85-bay car park at the station was opened in November 2013 - funded by South Yorkshire PTE, this cost £500,000 and is located behind the northbound platform.

Facilities

Elsecar station is unstaffed and has no permanent buildings. Standard waiting shelters are provided on each side, along with a customer help point on platform 1. Train running information is offered via the display screens at the entrance to, and on the platforms and via timetable information posters. Step-free access is available to each platform via ramps, there are two ramps to the Northbound platform. There are bicycle storage facilities on both platforms.
As of 16 June 2018, there is a ticket machine on each platform.

Service

From 20 May 2018 the station will be served on weekdays and Saturdays by two trains per hour towards and two trains per hour to, one continuing to via and the other to via. On Sundays, the schedule is slightly reduced with services starting later and finishing earlier, one train per hour is offered to Sheffield which continues to and one train per hour is offered to Barnsley which continues once per hour to Huddersfield until 14:00 and then at alternate hours with a service to Leeds via Castleford until 20:00 when all remaining hourly services then continue to Leeds.