Hensall railway station
Hensall 
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| Location | |
| Place | Hensall |
| Local authority | Selby |
| Coordinates | 53°41′55″N 1°06′52″W / 53.698500°N 1.114500°WCoordinates: 53°41′55″N 1°06′52″W / 53.698500°N 1.114500°W |
| Grid reference | SE585228 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | HEL |
| Managed by | Northern |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | F2 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 184 |
| 2012/13 |
 272 |
| 2013/14 |
276 |
| 2014/15 |
182 |
| 2015/16 |
544 |
| History | |
| Key dates | Opened 1848 |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Hensall from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Hensall railway station serves the village of Hensall, North Yorkshire, England. It is located on the Pontefract Line and is 22 miles (35 km) east of Leeds. The line is used regularly by the freight companies FirstGBRf, Freightliner and DB Schenker that transport coal & limestone to Drax and remove the gypsum created by the flue-gas treatment equipment. The branch line to the power plant diverges just to the east of the station and is supervised from the nearby signal box.
The station was built by the Wakefield, Pontefract and Goole Railway, a constituent company of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway; the route through here opening to traffic in 1848. Later in its history the station was absorbed into the LMSR London Midland and Scottish Railway before it became part of the British Railways network in 1948. Today the station is operated by Northern. The station was until 2014 home to one of the last sets of electrical wheel boom level crossing gates in the world; Castleford Cutsyke Junction, Urlay Nook (near Darlington) and Hensall were the final serving gates after the removal of the gates at Brough and Redcar Central. Hensall Signal box (located adjacent the south platform) has recently been awarded grade II listing status along with 25 other historical signal boxes. The list, announced by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, includes signal boxes dating from late-Victorian times. Despite its listed status, it was taken out of operational use in May 2014, when control of signalling in the area passed to the signalling centre at Ferrybridge. The boom gates were also replaced by standard automatic lifting barriers as part of the project.
Hensall Station was also the site of a small collision in 1949 between a British Railways freight engine and a lorry after failure of a crossing keeper to acknowledge the train and brake van approaching, however it was argued that the signal man never gave the crossing the approaching train signal. It is unknown who caused the incident.
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