Darton railway station

{{Short description|Railway station in South Yorkshire, England}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2018}}

{{Use British English|date=February 2018}}

{{Infobox station

| name = Darton

| symbol_location = gb

| symbol = rail

| image = Darton Railway Station.JPG

| caption = View of the station taken from platform 2

| borough = Darton, Barnsley

| country = England

| coordinates = {{coord|53.5880|-1.5309|type:railwaystation_region:GB_scale:10000|display=inline,title}}

| grid_name = Grid reference

| grid_position = {{gbmapscaled|SE311102|25|SE311102}}

| manager = Northern Trains

| platforms = 2

| code = DRT

| zone = Barnsley (SYPTE)
5 (WYPTE)

| classification = DfT category F1

| transit_authority = South Yorkshire

| original = Manchester and Leeds Railway

| pregroup = Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway

| postgroup = London, Midland and Scottish Railway

| years = {{start date|1850|01|01|df=y}}

| events = Station opened

| mpassengers =

{{Rail pass box |pass_year=2019/20 |passengers={{decrease}} 0.163 million}}

{{Rail pass box |pass_year=2020/21 |passengers={{decrease}} 50,352}}

{{Rail pass box |pass_year=2021/22 |passengers={{increase}} 0.104 million}}

{{Rail pass box |pass_year=2022/23 |passengers={{decrease}} 0.102 million}}

{{Rail pass box |pass_year=2023/24 |passengers={{increase}} 0.110 million}}

| footnotes = Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

}}

Darton railway station is a railway station in a large village of Darton, in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. Train services are provided by Northern Trains.

The station was opened by the Manchester and Leeds Railway on 1 January 1850.{{cite book |last=Butt |first=R.V.J. |title=The Directory of Railway Stations |year=1995 |publisher=Patrick Stephens Ltd |location=Yeovil |isbn=1-85260-508-1 |id=R508 |page=77 }}

The railway station is in South Yorkshire but West Yorkshire Metro tickets are also valid to and from this station.{{cite book|last1=Haigh|first1=A J|title=Railways in West Yorkshire - Leeds, Bradford, Wakefield, Huddersfield and the West Riding|date=2012|publisher=Express Publishing|isbn=978-1-901056-44-0|page=76}} The reason for this is that the West-South Yorkshire boundary historically ran between the village and its main source of employment, Woolley Colliery.{{citation needed|date=September 2012}}

The car park at the station was recently{{When|date=February 2011}} reported by the local police force as having the highest incidence of vehicle break-ins in the Barnsley area, but the installation of CCTV is hoped to address this problem.