Leeds–Goole

Trains using the Pontefract line from Leeds use the same route as the Hallam line to Methley Junction:

• Woodlesford
• here is Methley Junction, where lines of the MidR, L&YR and the Great Northern Railway (GNR) converged.
• Castleford (also on the Hallam line and Huddersfield line)
• Glasshoughton (opened 21 February 2005)
• Pontefract Monkhill: junction with Wakefield line
• Knottingley: joint L&YR/GNR station. The Dearne Valley line has a junction at this point; there is also the Askern branch line for Doncaster
• Whitley Bridge
• runs under East Coast Main Line
• Hensall: junction for the Hull and Barnsley Railway (HBR – now to Drax); and the joint GCR/HBR line crossed the line about a mile further east
• Snaith
• Rawcliffe
• Oakhills Junction with the Selby–Goole line closed in 1964
• Goole

Wakefield–Pontefract

The Wakefield service joins the Leeds service at Pontefract; the station served for this section are:

• Wakefield Westgate (also served by the Wakefield line): the station was jointly owned by GCR and GNR; to the south was the West Riding and Grimsby Joint Railway (also owned by those companies)
• Wakefield Kirkgate (Previous terminus for most services on this line)
• leaving Wakefield there were a large number of junctions between there and Crofton
• there were two stations on this line serving Crofton and Sharlston
• Streethouse
• Featherstone
• Pontefract Tanshelf
• Pontefract Monkhill where the Leeds line joins

Both services now run hourly to Leeds from Knottingley to provide a combined half-hourly service between Knottingley, Pontefract Monkhill and Leeds