Sykehouse railway station

Sykehouse
General information
Location	Sykehouse, Doncaster England
Grid reference	SE622172
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Hull and Barnsley and Great Central Joint Railway
Location

Sykehouse railway station was a station on the Hull and Barnsley and Great Central Joint Railway between Thorpe-in-Balne and Snaith and Pollington. ^{[1] [2]} It was built with the line which opened on 1 May 1916, but the station never opened to passengers. Like most stations on this line, it was situated on the edge of Sykehouse some distance from the village centre, in the hamlet of Topham, just south of where the railway crossed the River Went. ^[3] Despite never opening to passengers, the station had the necessary facilities, and the two flanking platforms remained in situ until 1960.

The station was controlled by a signal box situated by the level crossing at the end of the platform, which lasted until the final closure of the line.

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Thorpe-in-Balne		Hull and Barnsley and Great Central Joint Railway		Snaith and Pollington

References

1. Joy, David (1984). South and West Yorkshire : (the industrial West Riding) (2 ed.). Newton Abbot: David St John Thomas. endpaper map. ISBN   0-946537-11-9.
2. Grant, Donald J. (2017). Directory of the railway companies of Great Britain. Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire: Troubadour. p. 229. ISBN   978-1788037686.
3. "SE61 (includes: Fishlake; Kirk Bramwith; Moss; Stainforth;... - Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 maps of Great Britain, 1945-1969". maps.nls.uk. 1952. Retrieved 9 June 2022.

• Barnett, A. L., "Railways of the South Yorkshire Coalfield from 1880". Railway Correspondence and Travel Society. ISBN   0-901115-58-4

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