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Sandal and Walton railway station

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Place
  
Sandal and Walton

Grid reference
  
SE351172

30 September 1951
  
renamed Walton

Platforms in use
  
2

Area
  
City of Wakefield

1 June 1870
  
Station opened

Original company
  
Sandal and Walton railway station

Similar
  
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Sandal and walton railway station top 5 facts


Sandal and Walton railway station was opened on 1 June 1870 by the Midland Railway on its line from Derby to Leeds Wellington Station.

The station was south of Wakefield, lying between Sandal and Walton in West Yorkshire, England.

It was of typical Midland brick-built construction. In 1926 the line was quadrupled, with the new goods lines passing to the east of the 2 platforms. It closed on 12 June 1961.

To the north of the station a junction had been built in 1868 with a curve to meet the West Riding and Grimsby Railway jointly owned by the MS&LR and the GNR. This enabled goods services and southbound passenger trains to run from Wakefield. However this service finished during the First World War.

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