SideTracked - Whitley Bridge Traditional Geocache

This cache belongs to the SideTracked series. It is not designed to take you to a magical place with a breath taking view. I fact, this is certainly not the prettiest railway station in Britain.  However, these caches provide a distraction for the weary traveller, but anyone else can go and find it too. More Information can be found at the SideTracked website  - http://www.sidetrackedseries.info/

This unstaffed station offers limited facilities for passengers other than free parking, waiting shelters and help points.

Whitley Bridge railway station serves the villages of Eggborough and Whitley and is located on the Pontefract Line linking Leeds with Goole.  The station operates a limited passenger service with one train per day to Goole and two per day to Leeds. Passenger services along this line have been criticised in the popular press as being a ‘Ghost Service’ where the company operate largely empty trains rather than face the bad press associated with cutting an unprofitable service.

The vast majority of trains on this line are transporting coal to the nearby Eggborough and Drax Power Stations.