IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Kimberworth Road, ROTHERHAM, S61 1AJ
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Kimberworth Road, S61 1AJ by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (15 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image
Details
Distance
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Rails going this way and that
This view is from the footbridge between Holmes Lane and Steel St. looking east. The double track on the left is the Sheffield - Doncaster line via Mexborough, the centre single track services C.F.Booth's scrapyard, and the single track to the right goes to Rotherham Central Station.
Image: © Bobby Clegg
Taken: 18 Oct 2008
0.19 miles
3
Railway Station (former), Rotherham Masborough
The former Rotherham Masborough Station. The photograph was taken on the last day of operation. Units 53012/54003/53646 & 53601 are heading for Sheffield.
An excellent shot by Ben Brooksbank that was taken on 23 August 1963 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2058915
Image: © Dave Hitchborne
Taken: 9 Jun 1987
0.20 miles
4
Rotherham Masborough railway station (site)
Opened in 1890 by the North Midland Railway on the line from Derby to Leeds, this station closed in 1988 when it was replaced by Rotherham Central. View north towards Parkgate & Rawmarsh and Leeds.
Image: © Nigel Thompson
Taken: 15 Aug 2008
0.21 miles
5
Blue Bricks
This is a view of the Coronation Road viaduct in Masbrough which carries the road across the ex MR Derby - Leeds railway. It comprises 13 blue brick arches with a central apex box girder span. The disused land at the rear was probably the Goods and Coaling Station.
Image: © Bobby Clegg
Taken: 18 Oct 2008
0.21 miles
6
Railway Station, Masbrough
Class 45033 runs light through this now closed station. There were 127 of these locomotives built between 1960 and 1962 by British Railways at their Derby and Crewe Works. These 67ft-11in, 135 ton locomotives ran at speeds of up to 90mph.
Image: © Dave Hitchborne
Taken: 9 May 1987
0.21 miles
7
Rotherham (Masborough) Station, with train
View northward, towards Leeds, York etc.; ex-Midland main trunk line, London - Leicester/Nottingham and Bristol - Birmingham - Derby - Sheffield - Leeds/York - Carlisle. The train is the Up 'Waverley', 10.15 Edinburgh via Carlisle - London St Pancras, with Stanier Class 5 No. 44871 piloting BR/Sulzer Type 4 1-Co-Co-1 2,500hp Diesel No. 157 (later Class 46 No. 46.020). The Diesel may have been 'unwell', as those early series locomotives often were. No. 44871 survived until 1967 and is preserved on the East Lancashire Railway.
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 23 Aug 1963
0.22 miles
8
Holmes Station, Rotherham
Holmes Station was an intermediate stop on the Sheffield and Rotherham Railway, the first railway in both towns. The railway was opened on 31 October 1838. A level crossing and footbridge are all that marks the site of the station today.
Image: © Martin Speck
Taken: 2 Nov 2008
0.22 miles
