opened in 1875, and the village cattle market used rail transport. The cattle market is long gone and the malt kiln is crumbling away. The station's platform buildings (waiting rooms, toilets etc.) were demolished in the late 1980s and replaced by shelters, but the main building next to the footbridge still stands (it is used as office accommodation by Network Rail). During World War II, Barnetby served as the railhead used for nearby RAF Elsham Wolds, a bomber base. Arriving and departing personnel could be picked up or dropped off by RAF vans. Australian Don Charlwood, in his memoir, "No Moon Tonight," writes movingly of standing on the platform with 20 other young men, part of four newly arrived crews for RAF bombers flying night raids on Germany from Elsham Wolds. While they waited for the van, ". . . we stood on the platform looking up at the hills that rose gently from every side." Casualties in Bomber Command were heavy: ". . . of our twenty only eight were destined to depart Barnetby station a few months later." A serious accident occurred near the station in 1983, when one passenger died after a freight and passenger train collided. In 2001 a new footbridge complete with ramps was built. The lines through the station were re-signalled over the Christmas and New Year of 2015/16, with the new colour light signals installed and the old manual signal boxes at Wrawby Junction and Barnetby East closed during a 17-day blockade. The area is now under the control of the York IECC. Facilities The station is unmanned as noted, but has a self-service ticket machine, accepting card payments only, to allow passengers to buy tickets prior to departure or for the collection of pre-paid tickets. Passengers paying by other methods (e.g. cash) must buy their ticket from the conductor on the train. There are waiting shelters on each island platform (but no other permanent buildings), along with customer help points, digital information screens and timetable poster boards. Step-free access is available to all platforms via the fully accessible footbridge from the car park and station entrance. Services Services at the station are operated by East Midlands Railway, Northern Trains and TransPennine Express. On weekdays, the station is served by an hourly TransPennine Express service between and as well as by a two-hourly East Midlands Railway service between and via and . There