Woodhouse Mill railway station

Woodhouse Mill
Location
Place	Aston cum Aughton
Area	Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham
Coordinates	53°22′05″N 1°20′47″W / 53.368080°N 1.346370°WCoordinates: 53°22′05″N 1°20′47″W / 53.368080°N 1.346370°W
Grid reference	SK435858
Operations
Original company	Midland Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Platforms	2
History
6 April 1840	Station opened
21 September 1953	Station closed[1]
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North Midland Railway

Legend 72¾ Leeds (Hunslet Lane) 70¾ Hunslet(1850) 68¾ Woodlesford 66¼ Methley 64¼ Calder Viaduct Altofts and Whitwood(1870) York and North Midland Railway 63¼ Normanton Manchester and Leeds Railway 59¾ Barnsley Canal Oakenshaw for Wakefield Sandal and Walton(1870) 58¼ Chevet Tunnel 57½ Royston and Notton 53¾ Cudworth 49¼ Darfield 48¾ Cat Hill Tunnel 47¾ Wath North 45¾ Swinton Town 43¾ Kilnhurst West Parkgate and Rawmarsh(1853) 40¾ Rotherham Masborough Sheffield and Rotherham Railway Ickles viaduct 36¾ Treeton 35¼ Woodhouse Mill 34¾ Beighton 32¼ Killamarsh West 30¼ Eckington and Renishaw 27¾ Barrow Hill and Staveley Works Whittington(2nd station, closed 1952) Whittington(1st station, closed 1873) Tapton Junction 25¾ Chesterfield(1st station, closed 1870) 24¾ Chesterfield 20¾ Clay Cross Clay Cross Tunnel 17¾ Stretton 14¾ Wingfield 11½ Lodge Hill tunnel Cromford Canal aqueduct 11¾ Ambergate(current station, from 1876) 10½ Ambergate(1st station, closed 1863) Ambergate(2nd station, closed 1876) Toadmoor (Hag Wood) tunnel Longland Tunnel 7¼ Belper Milford Tunnel 5¼ Duffield Nottingham Road(1856) 0¾ Derby

Woodhouse Mill railway station was a station opened in 1840 by the North Midland Railway on its line between Rotherham Masborough and Chesterfield.

It was situated to the south of the main A57 road shortly after this left the City of Sheffield and served Woodhouse Mill, near Sheffield, Orgreave and Fence (Aston cum Aughton), both within Rotherham, South Yorkshire.

It may have initially have simply a halt, but the Midland Railway installed an island platform with a timber and brick booking office at its centre. Nearby was Orgreave Coke Works and Fence Colliery. It closed in 1953.^[2]

The station was located between that at Treeton and the original North Midland station at Beighton. The line is still in use today but has been a freight only route since July 1954, although it is very occasionally used as a diversionary route and by excursions not calling at Sheffield. It serves as a bypass line which keeps freight trains away from the congested lines through central Sheffield.

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Treeton Line and station closed		Midland Railway North Midland Railway		Killamarsh West Line and station closed
		Great Central Railway Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway		Upperthorpe and Killamarsh Line and station closed

References

Notes

1. Butt 1995, p. 254.
2. Pixton 2001, p. 26.

Sources

• Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.
• Pixton, Bob (2001). North Midland: Portrait of a Famous Route: Part 2 Chesterfield-Sheffield-Rotherham. Nottingham: Runpast Publishing, (now Book Law). ISBN 1 870754 51 4.