Whitley Bridge railway station
Whitley Bridge railway station serves the villages of Eggborough and Whitley in North Yorkshire, England. It is located on the Pontefract Line and is 20 miles east of Leeds.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Adambro, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Railway station
- Description: railway station in North Yorkshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “WBD”, “Whitley Bridge Railway Station”, and “Whitley Bridge Station”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Church of St Edmund King and Martyr, Kellington and Hensall railway station.
Church of St Edmund King and Martyr, Kellington
Church
Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Church of St Edmund King and Martyr, Kellington, is a grade I listed 12th century church in the village of Kellington, North Yorkshire, England. Excavations at the site have revealed the 14th century tomb related to the Knights Templar, and in the 1990s, the foundations of the church were underpinned because of possible subsidence effects from the nearby Kellingley Colliery. Church of St Edmund King and Martyr, Kellington is situated 1¼ miles northwest of Whitley Bridge railway station.
Hensall railway station
Railway station
Photo: Gordon Kneale Brooke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hensall railway station serves the village of Hensall in North Yorkshire, England. It is located on the Pontefract Line and is 22 miles east of Leeds. The line is used regularly by the freight companies GB Railfreight, Freightliner and DB Cargo UK that transport coal and limestone to Drax and remove the gypsum created by the flue-gas treatment equipment. Hensall railway station is situated 2 miles east of Whitley Bridge railway station.
Kellington Windmill
Windmill
Kellington Windmill is a historic building in Kellington, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The windmill was built in about 1800, to grind corn. Kellington Windmill is situated 1 mile northwest of Whitley Bridge railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Eggborough and Whitley.
Eggborough
Village
Photo: Iain Macaulay, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Eggborough is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, close to the county borders with South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and the East Riding.
Whitley
Village
Photo: Gordon Kneale Brooke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Whitley is a village in North Yorkshire, England, close to the Aire and Calder Navigation and the M62 motorway. The population of the village at the 2001 census was recorded as being 574, which had risen to 1,021 by the time of the 2011 census.
Kellington
Village
Photo: Simon Dean, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kellington is a small village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England, on the banks of the River Aire. Situated almost equidistant between the towns of Pontefract and Selby, the village dates back to at least the 11th century when it was listed in the Domesday Book.
Whitley Bridge railway station
- Categories: station and transportation
- Location: Kellington, Selby District, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.69913° or 53° 41′ 57″ northLongitude
-1.15889° or 1° 9′ 32″ westElevation
33 feet (10 metres)Operator
Northern TrainsNetwork
National RailAbbreviation
“WBD”Open location code
9C5WMRXR+MCOpenStreetMap ID
node 7452565704OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stationOpenStreetMap feature
railway=station
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to French—“Whitley Bridge railway station” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “station Whitley Bridge”
- Dutch: “Station Whitley Bridge”
- Egyptian Arabic: “محطة وايتلى بريدج”
- French: “gare de Whitley Bridge”
- French: “Whitley Bridge”
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