Thurnscoe railway station

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Thurnscoe
General information
Location	Thurnscoe, Barnsley England
Coordinates	53°32′44″N 1°18′30″W / 53.545470°N 1.308470°W / 53.545470; -1.308470
Grid reference	SE459056
Managed by	Northern
Transit authority	Travel South Yorkshire
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	THC
Fare zone	Barnsley
Classification	DfT category F2
History
Original company	British Rail
Key dates
16 May 1988	Station opened
Passengers
2019/20	66,616
2020/21	17,592
2021/22	62,150
2022/23	68,272
2023/24	79,662
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Thurnscoe railway station serves a village of Thurnscoe in South Yorkshire, England. It is located on the Wakefield Line 15 miles (24 km) north of Sheffield railway station. Only stopping services call at the station. It was opened as a new station on 16 May 1988.^[1] The station was built by British Rail.

Although the line passed through the three settlements of Thurnscoe, neighbouring Goldthorpe and Bolton-on-Dearne, the Swinton & Knottingley Joint railway originally provided only two stations for the area, at Bolton-on-Dearne and at Frickley. Until 1961 the station was called Bolton on Dearne for Goldthorpe and was served by Sheffield-York stopping services. By the late 1980s the low demand for York-bound passengers meant that only a handful of stopping trains used the line. South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive, responding to increasing demand for Sheffield-Leeds passengers in the area, and a lack of capacity on the Sheffield-Barnsley-Leeds line, sponsored an hourly service via Bolton and opened new stations at Goldthorpe and Thurnscoe.