 It does retain its railway station, located approximately midway between Leeds to the west and York/Selby to the east.In June 2006 it won the award for "best kept railway station" in all of Yorkshire, after making huge strides in the refurbishment of the station.In April 2017 work was undertaken in Micklefield to realign the track as part of the Transpennine route upgrade, and as a result the position of the existing Leeds bound platform was altered.