East Garforth | |
Symbol Location: | gb |
Symbol: | rail |
Borough: | Garforth, City of Leeds |
Country: | England |
Coordinates: | 53.792°N -1.371°W |
Grid Name: | Grid reference |
Manager: | Northern |
Platforms: | 2 |
Code: | EGF |
Zone: | 2 |
Classification: | DfT category F1 |
Transit Authority: | West Yorkshire Metro |
Opened: | 1987 |
Footnotes: | Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
East Garforth railway station serves Garforth in West Yorkshire, England. It is on the Selby Line, and operated by Northern. The station was opened by West Yorkshire Metro in May 1987.
The station is an unstaffed halt, and has wooden platforms with shelters on each one. It is located around 8001NaN1 from the main Garforth station.
The station is fully accessible for wheelchair users, with ramps from the road to both platforms. Ticket machines are available for passengers to buy or collect pre-paid tickets prior to travel. Train running information is provided by a long line P.A system and digital display screens on each platform.[1]
Monday to Saturday daytime there is a half-hourly service to Leeds, with alternate services continuing to Bradford Interchange and . Eastbound, there are hourly services to and (the latter extended from Selby at the winter 2019 timetable change; this is the service that runs to Halifax westbound). The same frequency remains in place during the evening; on Sundays there are also two trains per hour each way - to Leeds westbound and alternately to York and Selby eastbound.