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Manvers Way, ROTHERHAM, S63 5DN

This area was covered by mine workings and railway sidings, all of which have now gone. It is one of the largest redevelopment projects in the country.

Opened in 1851 on the South Yorkshire Railway's line from Barnsley to Doncaster, this station closed to passengers in 1959. View south east along the track bed, across Station Road (which used to cross over the railway on a bridge) towards Mexborough and Doncaster. The goods shed ahead in the only apparently surviving building. There were four tracks to the left of this, with platforms serving just the left-hand two of these. The station building was roughly where the two lorries are standing.

Opened in 1902 by the Hull & Barnsley Railway, this was the terminus of a short branch from Wrangbrook Junction. It closed to passengers in 1929. View north along Station Road. At one time, Wath-upon-Dearne had three railway stations, all situated in Station Road. This was the first one to close, but the only building of the three to survive.

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.

Wath Central signal box photographed in the mid-1980's after the railway had been reduced from 4 tracks to 2. In the distance is Moor Road Bridge carrying the road to Wath Main Colliery - the "Blue Bridge" is currently very close to the site of this bridge. Beyond the bridge is Wath Hump marshalling yard opened 1907 by the Great Central Railway, and Wath loco shed, eastern terminus of the former LNER electric railway (Manchester, Sheffield & Wath electrification scheme) started pre-WW2 but not finished until the early 1950's. The bridge from which the photograph was taken was demolished c2008.