Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective
Deepcar railway station
Disused railway station in South Yorkshire, England From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Remove ads
Deepcar railway station, originally "Deep Car", is a disused railway station near Deepcar, South Yorkshire, England. The station, situated on the line built by the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway, opened on 14 July 1845. The station was located between Oughtibridge and Wortley and was intended to serve the village of Deepcar, near Sheffield, South Yorkshire. In 1899 the route became part of the Great Central Railway main line from London Marylebone to Manchester.
The station was built with two flanking platforms, the main station building being on the Manchester-bound side with a waiting shelter on the other. In the 1870s a short branch line was constructed to serve the Stocksbridge steelworks of Samuel Fox and Company. This line ran from the west end of Deepcar station to a set of sidings, where traffic was exchanged with the Stocksbridge Railway. At the west end of the station, to the rear of the main line platform, there was a short bay known as the Stocksbridge platform from where passenger trains to the station at Stocksbridge (also known as Stocksbridge platform) departed. This service, which commenced in 1877, ceased in 1931.
The station closed to passenger traffic on 15 June 1959.
The line, albeit single track from Woodburn Junction, is still open to serve the steelworks, now operated by the speciality steels division of Liberty House Group.[1][2] Traffic to this location usually runs at night.
Remove ads
References
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Remove ads