Doncaster railway station
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Doncaster railway station is on the East Coast Main Line serving the city of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. It is Script error: No such module "convert". down the line from Template:Rws and is situated between Template:Rws and Template:Rws on the main line. It is managed by London North Eastern Railway. It is the second busiest station in South Yorkshire (after Template:Rws), and the fourth busiest station in Yorkshire & the Humber.[1]
It is a major passenger interchange between the main line, Cross Country Route and local services running across the North of England. It is also the point for which London North Eastern Railway services branching off to Template:Rws diverge from the main route continuing north towards Edinburgh.
History
The railway station was built in 1850 replacing a temporary structure constructed two years earlier, located some Script error: No such module "convert". further south.Template:Sfn[2] Between 1850 and 1873 the station had two main platforms, with loops to each platform diverting off the main running lines.Template:Sfn It was rebuilt in its present form in 1938, where the platform on the townside of the station (the eastern side) was converted into an island platform thereby creating a fourth through running line.[3] The station has had several slight modifications since that date - in 1976, a project to refurbish the passenger facilities was completed at a cost of £125,000, and in 2006, the new interchange and connection to Frenchgate Centre opened.Template:Sfn[4] The station was evacuated and services on the East Coast Main Line stopped in March 1997 due to a bomb hoax called in by the IRA. Actual bombs were left at Template:Rws railway station in Cheshire on the same day.[5]
In May 2015, construction commenced on a new Platform 0 to the north-east of the station adjacent to the Frenchgate Centre on the site of the former cattle dock. It is used by terminating Northern Trains services to Hull, Beverley, Bridlington and Scarborough.[6] This allowed these services to operate independently of the East Coast Main Line.[7][8] It is joined to the rest of the station via a fully accessible overbridge.[9]
Platforms
The station has nine platforms on three islands. Platforms 1, 3, 4 and 8 can take through trains. Platforms 2 and 5 are south-facing bays; platforms 0, 6 and 7 are north facing bays. A first class lounge is available on platform 3A.
- Platform 0 is used to take almost exclusively Northern Trains services to and from Hull, Beverley and Bridlington. The brand new platform opened on 12 December 2016.[10]
- Platform 1 is used by southbound London North Eastern Railway, Grand Central and Hull Trains services to London King's Cross.
- Platform 2 has no scheduled trains.
- Platform 3A is used by London North Eastern Railway, Grand Central and Hull Trains services to London King's Cross
- Platform 3B is used by Northern Trains services to Sheffield and TransPennine Express services to Manchester Piccadilly
- Between platforms 3 and 4 are the high speed up and down lines to/from London
- Platform 4 is used by northbound London North Eastern Railway services to York, Newcastle and Edinburgh, Grand Central services to Bradford Interchange, Hull Trains services to Hull, Northern Trains through services to Bridlington and Scarborough and TransPennine Express services to Cleethorpes. Southbound CrossCountry services towards Birmingham New Street also use this platform.
- Platform 5 is a bay platform used by East Midlands Railway services to Lincoln and Northern Trains services to Sheffield
- Platform 6 is a bay platform used by Northern Trains services to Leeds.
- Platform 7 is seldom in public use, but is used by Northern Trains services to Scunthorpe when it is.
- Platform 8 is used by northbound London North Eastern Railway services towards Leeds; CrossCountry services to Newcastle; and Northern Trains services in both directions – southbound to Sheffield and northbound to Adwick and Scunthorpe. Services towards Birmingham New Street also use this platform.
There were plans to add platforms 9 and 10 to cope with Eurostar trains but this project was cancelled when it was decided that Eurostar would not serve Britain outside the South East of England.
There are presently no ticket barriers in operation at this station; however, on race days at Doncaster Racecourse, manual ticket checks are in operation in the subway.
The station was refurbished in 2006 and is now directly connected to the Frenchgate Centre extension in Doncaster town centre. The station now has a new booking office for tickets and information, three new lifts, refurbished staircases and subway. There is a newsagent and some food outlets. More recently, interactive touch screens have been installed around the station by London North Eastern Railway services to provide information about local attractions, live departures and disruptions and station facilities. In addition, mobile phone charging points are now available on the concourse, touch screen and self-service ticketing machines have been installed across the concourse; the stairways to the subway have now been divided into two way systems to improve the flow of passengers during peak times.
In a route study by Network Rail, it was proposed that new platforms could be built on the western side of the station to meet expected demand in the future.[11]
In March 2019, it was revealed that there were plans, as part of the East Coast improvement programme in Control Period 6, to add an additional platform at Doncaster.[12]
Accidents and incidents
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- Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote". On 16 March 1951, a derailment occurred south of the station in which 14 passengers were killed and 12 seriously injured.
Services
Seven train operating companies call at Doncaster, which is the highest number of companies in the UK and is also equal in number only to Crewe, and Edinburgh Waverley in the UK. Their off-peak weekday service patterns are as follows:
CrossCountry[14]
- 6 tpd to Template:Rws, of which:
- 4 tpd continue to Newcastle Central, via Template:Rws and Template:Rws
- 4 tpd to Template:Rws via Template:Rws, Template:Rws and Template:Rws
- 1 tpd to Template:Rws via Template:Rws and Template:Rws
East Midlands Railway[15]
- 5 tpd to Template:Rws via Template:Rws, Lincoln Central and Template:Rws
Grand Central[16]
- 4 tpd to Template:Rws (3 tpd non-stop, 1 tpd via Template:Rws)
- 4 tpd to Template:Rws via Template:Rws, Template:Rws and Template:Rws (2 tpd calling at Template:Rws)
Hull Trains[17]
- 7 tpd to Template:Rws via Template:Rws and Template:Rws
- 7 tpd to Hull Paragon via Template:Rws, Template:Rws and Template:Rws, of which:
- 2 tpd continue to Template:Rws via Template:Rws
London North Eastern Railway[18]
- 3 1/2tph to Template:Rws, of which:
- 1 tp2h slow via Template:Rws
- 3 tph semi-fast
- 2 tph to Template:Rws via Template:Rws, of which:
- 1 tp2h continue to Template:Rws via Template:Rws
- 1 tp2h continue to Template:Rws via Template:Rws
- 1 tpd continues to Template:Rws via Template:Rws
- 1 tph to Template:Rws via Template:Rws, Template:Rws and Newcastle Central
- 1 tpd to Hull Paragon via Template:Rws and Template:Rws
Northern Trains[19]
- 2 tph to Sheffield, of which:
- 1 tph slow via Template:Rws, Template:Rws and Meadowhall Interchange
- 1 tph semi-fast via Meadowhall Interchange
- 1 tp2h to Template:Rws via Template:Rws, Template:Rws and Template:Rws
- 2 tph to Hull Paragon Interchange, of which:
- 1 tph continues to Template:Rws via Template:Rws, Template:Rws and Template:Rws, and operates semi-fast to Hull Paragon
- 1 tph to Template:Rws via Template:Rws
- 1 tph to Template:Rws via Template:Rws, Template:Rws and Template:Rws
TransPennine Express[20]
- 1 tph to Template:Rws via Template:Rws, Template:Rws and Template:Rws
- 1 tph to Template:Rws via Template:Rws, Template:Rws and Template:Rws
| Preceding station | National Rail National Rail | Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CrossCountry | ||||
| Retford or Newark Northgate |
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style="background:#Template:VTEC colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" | | York |
| Newark Northgate | style="background:#Template:VTEC colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" | | London North Eastern Railway London – Edinburgh/Scotland express |
style="background:#Template:VTEC colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" | | York |
| Retford or Newark Northgate |
style="background:#Template:VTEC colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" | | London North Eastern Railway London – Doncaster |
style="background:#Template:VTEC colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" | | Terminus |
| Grantham or Peterborough or Retford |
style="background:#Template:VTEC colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" | | London North Eastern Railway London – Leeds |
style="background:#Template:VTEC colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" | | Wakefield Westgate |
| Newark Northgate or Grantham |
style="background:#Template:VTEC colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" | | London North Eastern Railway London – Hull One train per day |
style="background:#Template:VTEC colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" | | Selby |
| Terminus | East Midlands Railway | |||
| Retford | style="background:#Template:Temporary rail colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" | | Hull Trains London – Hull/Beverley |
style="background:#Template:Temporary rail colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" | | Selby |
| TransPennine Express | ||||
| Northern | ||||
| Terminus | Northern | |||
| Peterborough or London King's Cross |
style="background:#Template:GrandCentral colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" | | Grand Central West Riding |
style="background:#Template:GrandCentral colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" | | Pontefract Monkhill or Wakefield Kirkgate |
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| Template:Rws | style="background:#Template:Northern colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" | | Northern Connect Sheffield – Hull |
style="background:#Template:Northern colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" | | Hull |
| Template:Rws | style="background:#Template:Temporary rail colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" | | TBA Northern Powerhouse Rail |
style="background:#Template:Temporary rail colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" | | Template:Rws |
| Historical railways | <templatestyles src="S-note/styles.css" /> | |||
| Terminus | style="background:#Template:GNGE colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" | | Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint | style="background:#Template:GNGE colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" | | Bessacarr Line open, station closed |
| Rossington Line open, station closed |
style="background:#Template:GNR colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" | | Great Northern Railway East Coast Main Line |
style="background:#Template:GNR colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" | | Arksey Line open, station closed |
See also
- Listed buildings in Doncaster (Town Ward)
- Joan Croft Halt railway station (North Doncaster Chord project)
- Doncaster Works – a locomotive works adjacent to the station.
References
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- ↑ "Doncaster to get a Platform 0 in £21m upgrade" The Railway Magazine issue 1371 June 2015 p. 81
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Sources
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External links
- Train times and station information for Doncaster railway station from National Rail
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