Making your own way to the venue by public transport
There is an excellent journey planner for local journeys. Use Ackworth School, Pontefract Road, Ackworth for your destination. The planner will show you maps of the areas you need to walk in. The right local buses will leave you outside the venue. From there you will have under ten minutes walk up the driveway.
Pontefract Tanshelf Station (POT)
National Rail Information. The link includes a link to a map of the station.
Pontefract Tanshelf is 700 metres from Pontefract bus station.
Pontefract Baghill Station (PFR)
This link gives information about the station including a link to a map of the station.
Pontefract Baghill is 400 metres from Pontefract bus station.
You can travel directly from this station to the venue: Walk ten minutes to the Hospital, take the number 49 and then walk six mintues to the school.
Pontefract Bus Station
Make your way from any of the Pontefract train stations to Pontefract bus station. The bus numbers to use are 49 (Pontefract to Ackworth Moor Top, Circular) and 35 (Pontefract to Barnsley). Your bus journey is in the region of twenty to thirty minutes. At your destination outside the school you have a 6 minute walk. There is a road crossing point. Most of your walk will be making your way up the school's private road.
Information about Pontefract bus station.
Bus timetables are available from wymetro's own site.
This wikipedia page about the bus station gives distances from the railway stations to the bus station and tells you which buses from which stations go to the bus station.
Fitzwilliam Train Station (FZW)
Fitzwilliam is south of the school, it is closer to the venue than Pontefract but more exposed. This link gives information about the station including a map of the station.
Take the number 35 bus (Stagecoach Route Barnsley to Pontefract). You'll be on the bus for about 8 minutes and then as above will have a 6 minute walk to the school.
Featherstone (FEA)
This link gives information about the station. It includes a link to a map of the station.
While this station is under three miles from the school, we advise you only to use this stop if you have arranged for someone to meet you as there is no easy bus journey.
Connecting Stations
Leeds (LDS): This link includes a link to a map of the station. Leeds railway station is 19 miles from the venue.
Wakefield Westgate (WKF): This link includes a link to a map of the station. Wakefield-Westgate is 9 miles from the venue.
Doncaster (DON): This link includes a link to a map of the station. Doncaster station is 12 miles from the venue.