Fitzwilliam railway station is in the village of Fitzwilliam near Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England.
The station is on the Wakefield Line operated by Northern Rail. Trains operate from Fitzwilliam to Leeds via Wakefield Westgate, Doncaster and Sheffield.
The station opened on 1 March 1982 - there had previously been a station of the same name situated a short distance further north that had been opened by the LNER in 1937, but this closed in 1967.
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