Elsecar railway station is a railway station in Elsecar, near Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. It is based on the Penistone Line and Hallam Line served by Northern Trains. The station was opened by the Midland Railway in July 1897 and was at one time known as Elsecar & Hoyland.

Elsecar
Elsecar railway station 2018
General information
Location	Elsecar, Barnsley England
Coordinates	53.499°N 1.427°W / 53.499; -1.427
Grid reference	SE381004
Managed by	Northern Trains
Transit authority	Travel South Yorkshire
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	ELR
Fare zone	Barnsley
Classification	DfT category F1
History
Opened	1 July 1897
Passengers
2016/17	0.155 million
2017/18	0.145 million
2018/19	0.161 million
2019/20	0.180 million
2020/21	40,780
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

CCTV was recently installed for the purposes of crime prevention. Other improvements to the station include new signage, lighting, and the installation of passenger information display screens to provide real-time service information.

A new 85-bay car park at the station was opened in November 2013 - funded by South Yorkshire PTE, this cost £500,000 and is located behind the northbound platform.[1]

Facilities

Elsecar station is unstaffed and has no permanent buildings. Standard waiting shelters are provided on each side, along with a customer help point on platform 1. Train running information is offered via the display screens at the entrance to, and on the platforms and via timetable information posters. Step-free access is available to each platform via ramps,[2] there are two ramps to the Northbound platform. There are bicycle storage facilities on both platforms.

Ticket machines were installed on each platform in 2018, however these are currently out of use as of May 2021 due to vandalism.

Service

From 20 May 2018 the station will be served on weekdays and Saturdays by two trains per hour towards Sheffield and two trains per hour to Barnsley, one continuing to Leeds via Castleford and the other to Huddersfield via Penistone. On Sundays, the schedule is slightly reduced with services starting later and finishing earlier, one train per hour is offered to Sheffield which continues to Lincoln and one train per hour is offered to Barnsley which continues once per hour to Huddersfield until 14:00 and then at alternate hours with a service to Leeds via Castleford until 20:00 when all remaining hourly services then continue to Leeds.[3]

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Chapeltown		Northern Trains Hallam Line		Wombwell
		Northern Trains Penistone Line

See also

• Elsecar Steam Railway
• Earl Fitzwilliam's private railway station
• Rockingham (South Yorkshire) railway station

Notes

External links

• Train times and station information for Elsecar railway station from National Rail