Doncaster railway station is on the East Coast Main Line in England, serving the city of Doncaster, South Yorkshire. It is down the line from and is situated between and on the main line. It is managed by London North Eastern Railway.
It is a major passenger interchange between the main line, Cross Country Route and local services running across the North of England. It is also the point for which London North Eastern Railway services branching off to diverge from the main route continuing north towards Edinburgh.
History
The railway station was built in 1849 replacing a temporary structure constructed a year earlier. It was rebuilt in its present form in 1938 and has had several slight modifications since that date, most notably in 2006, when the new interchange and connection to Frenchgate Centre opened.
In May 2015, construction commenced on a new Platform 0 to the north-east of the station adjacent to the Frenchgate Centre on the site of the former cattle dock. It is used by terminating Northern Trains services to Hull, Beverley, Bridlington and Scarborough. This allowed these services to operate independently of the East Coast Main Line. It is joined to the rest of the station via a fully accessible overbridge.
Station Masters
G.R.H. Mullins 1849 – 1855 (afterwards stationmaster at Boston) William Ruxton ca. 1863 David Greenwood ???? – 1877 James Bradford 1877 – 1878 Charles Ratchelous 1878 – 1885 James L. Rayner 1885 – 1892 George Bolt ca. 1892 – 1896 William Henry Lindsey 1896 – 1915 Thomas Christopher 1915 – 1917 (formerly station master at Hatfield) Fred Warriner 1917 – 1921 Mr. Trotter 1921 – 1922 George Herbert Gregory 1923 – 1933 E.H. Fowler 1933 – 1937 Edwin Oliver Wright 1937 – 1940 R.P. Haw 1940 J.E. Fisher ca. 1951
Platforms
The station has nine platforms on three islands. Platforms 1, 3, 4 and 8 can take through trains. Platforms 2 and 5 are south-facing bays; platforms 0, 6 and 7 are north facing bays. A first class lounge is available on platform 3A.
Platform 0 is used to take almost exclusively Northern Trains services to and from Hull, Beverley and Bridlington. The brand new platform opened on 12 December 2016. Platform 1 is used by southbound London North Eastern Railway, Grand Central and Hull Trains services to London King's Cross. Platform 2 has no scheduled trains. Platform 3A is used by London North Eastern Railway, Grand Central and Hull Trains services to London King's Cross Platform 3B is used by Northern Trains services to Sheffield and TransPennine Express services to Manchester Piccadilly Between platforms 3 and 4 are the high speed up and down lines to/from London Platform 4 is used by northbound London North Eastern Railway services to York, Newcastle and Edinburgh, Grand Central services to Bradford Interchange, Hull Trains services to Hull, Northern Trains through services to Bridlington and Scarborough and TransPennine Express services to Cleethorpes. Southbound CrossCountry services towards Birmingham New Street also use this platform. Platform 5 is a bay platform used by East Midlands Railway services to Lincoln and Northern Trains services to Sheffield Platform 6 is a bay platform used by Northern Trains services to Leeds. Platform 7 is seldom in public use, but is used by Northern Trains services to Scunthorpe when it is. Platform 8 is used by northbound London North Eastern Railway services towards Leeds; CrossCountry services to Newcastle; and Northern Trains services in both directions – southbound to Sheffield and northbound to Adwick and Scunthorpe. Services towards Birmingham New Street also use this platform.
There were plans to add platforms 9 and 10 to cope with Eurostar trains but this project was cancelled when it was decided that Eurostar would not serve Britain outside the South East of England.
There are presently no ticket barriers in operation at this station; however, on race days at Doncaster Racecourse, manual ticket checks are in operation in the subway.