Wath upon Dearne Central Railway Station late 1980s
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Wath upon Dearne Central Railway Station late 1980s
Image: © John Ambler Taken: Unknown
This station was opened in Victorian times by the Manchester, Sheffield and East Coast Railway which evolved into the Great Central Railway. The station closed in the 1960s and by the late 1980s had fallen into dereliction and partly demolished. The line had been freight only since the 1960s and was reduced from 4 tracks to 2 by the time of this photograph. The railway is now closed and even the bridge from which the photograph was taken is removed. In the distance are the headgears of Manvers Main Colliery - No. 1 shaft dead ahead and Nos. 2 & 3 to the left immediately to the right of the remaining gable of the station building. George's scrap yard where some BR locomotives were scrapped is to the immediate right, and the chimneys of Waterstone's glass works in the middle distance.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.506425
Longitude
-1.33729