Wombwell railway station

Wombwell railway station lies in Wombwell, a town south of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. The station is 12mi north of Sheffield on the Hallam and Penistone Lines. The station was opened by the Midland Railway on 1 July 1897, and between 25 September 1950 and 20 February 1969 was known as Wombwell West to distinguish it from Wombwell's other railway station, Wombwell Central, which closed in 1959.CCTV was recently installed for the purposes of crime prevention. Other recent improvements to the station include new signage, lighting, and, for the first time, installation of passenger information display screens to provide real-time service information.The station car park was extended in 2009 to give a total of 74 spaces for rail users.FacilitiesThere are no permanent buildings remaining at the station, aside from standard waiting shelters on each platform. Tickets can be bought in advance or on the train and there is ticketing facilities available by way of a machine on the car park side. The aforementioned CIS displays provide train running information, along with timetable poster boards. There is step-free access to both platforms via ramps from the road above.ServicesServices currently run twice per hour Monday to Saturdays to Sheffield (hourly Sundays) and hourly to on the Penistone Line and Leeds via and on the Hallam Line respectively (two-hourly Sundays). A single southbound through train to calls here on Saturday mornings only at 06.22.