Pontefract Tanshelf railway station
Pontefract Tanshelf railway station is the most central station in the market town of Pontefract in West Yorkshire, England, and serves Pontefract Races, the racecourse located just down the street from the station.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Railway station
- Description: railway station in West Yorkshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Pontefract Tanshelf Railway Station”, “Pontefract Tanshelf Station”, and “POT”
- Address: Park Road, Pontefract, WF8 4PQ
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include St Joseph’s Church, Pontefract and Pontefract Museum.
St Joseph’s Church, Pontefract
Church
Photo: Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Joseph’s Church, Pontefract is situated 990 feet southeast of Pontefract Tanshelf railway station.
Pontefract Museum
Museum
Photo: Stanley Walker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pontefract Museum is a local museum in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England. The collections cover archaeology, archives, decorative and applied art, fine art, photographs and social history. The museum opened in 1975. Pontefract Museum is situated 1,600 feet southeast of Pontefract Tanshelf railway station.
Queen’s Hotel
Residential building
Photo: Betty Longbottom, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Queen’s Hotel is a residential building, which is situated 460 feet south of Pontefract Tanshelf railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pontefract and Chequerfield.
Pontefract
Photo: Rept0n1x, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pontefract is a market town in West Yorkshire. It's one of the "Five Towns" east of the city of Wakefield, and a commuter town for Leeds. in 2021 its population was 40,000.
Chequerfield
Suburb
Chequerfield is a district made up mostly of council housing of Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England.
Carleton
Village
Carleton is a small village on the southern outskirts of Pontefract, in the Wakefield district, in the county of West Yorkshire, England. The village is home to the parish church of St Michael the Archangel, and two schools, Carleton High School and the Rookeries primary school.
Pontefract Tanshelf railway station
- Categories: station and transportation
- Location: Wakefield, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.694° or 53° 41′ 38″ northLongitude
-1.3189° or 1° 19′ 8″ westElevation
164 feet (50 metres)Operator
Northern TrainsNetwork
National RailAbbreviation
“POT”Open location code
9C5WMMVJ+JCOpenStreetMap ID
node 158530806OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stationOpenStreetMap feature
railway=station
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Venetian—“Pontefract Tanshelf railway station” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “station Pontefract Tanshelf”
- Dutch: “Station Pontefract Tanshelf”
- Egyptian Arabic: “محطة پونتيفراكت تانشيلف”
- French: “gare de Pontefract Tanshelf”
- French: “Gare de Pontefract Tanshelf”
- French: “Pontefract Tanshelf”
- Venetian: “stasion de Pontefract Tanshelf”
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