The station was opened on the Beighton Branch of the Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway (LD&ECR) in 1898. The LD&ECR wished to extend into Sheffield using the MS&LR's lines but was rebuffed, and instead joined the Midland's line at Beighton Junction. From there it went on to join the Sheffield District Railway at Treeton Junction and thereby gain access to goods traffic in central Sheffield and to the Midland Railway's Sheffield station.
Closure
The station closed in 1930. The line itself closed to stopping passenger services on the outbreak of World War II in 1939.[4] In the late 1980s the station site was home to a short-lived railway preservation attempt known as the Rother Valley Railway. This was formally abandoned in 1992, and the preservationists' energy and commitment were transferred to the Cleethorpes Coast Light Railway.
Rother Valley Railway
From 1988 until the early 1990s, another "Rother Valley Railway" had a brief existence on the site of Upperthorpe and Killamarsh station. The line had three locomotives on loan, a five-ton steam crane and a membership of over eighty.[5] Although the line featured in a two-page article in The Railway Magazine in 1990, little seems to have happened and the society faded away.[6][7] After many years details have been published stating that the society was unable to gain agreement with the necessary local authorities, so was unable to proceed. They sought another opportunity elsewhere, which they found by taking over Cleethorpes Council's struggling miniature railway, turning it into the Cleethorpes Coast Light Railway in 1991. That "Rother Valley Railway Limited" was formally dissolved on 9 June 1992.[8]
Today
The station fell into disuse after closure and the track on the line was completely lifted in the 1980s when the nearby Westthorpe Colliery closed. The Station Master's house on Field Lane is now a private dwelling and has no connection to the old platforms, which themselves have been demolished along with any other traces of the station. The cutting of the old line is now very overgrown and neglected with refuse; many efforts have been made to restrict access to the site through the use of fences.
↑ Hill, Peter (June 1990). Kelly, Peter (ed.). "Revival in the Rother Valley". The Railway Magazine. Vol.136, no.1070. Cheam, Surrey: IPC Magazines Limited. pp.398–9.
↑ Booth, Chris (2013). The Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway A pictorial view of the "Dukeries Route" and branches. Blurb. p.52. 06715029.
↑ Booth, Chris (2017). The Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway Chesterfield to Langwith Junction, The Beighton Branch and Sheffield District Railway. Fonthill. p.104. ISBN978-1-78155-628-3.
↑ Scott, Peter (2015). A History of the Cleethorpes Miniature Railway: The Story of the Seaside Miniature Railway, from Opening in 1948 to the Present Day Cleethorpes Coast Light Railway, Including the Railways at Wonderland & Pleasure Island. Reading, Berkshire: P Scott. pp.89–90. ISBN978-1-902368-41-2. Minor Railway Histories No.7.
Cupit, J.; Taylor, W. (1984) [1966]. The Lancashire, Derbyshire & East Coast Railway. Oakwood Library of Railway History (2nded.). Headington: Oakwood Press. ISBN978-0-85361-302-2. OL19.
Booth, Chris (2013). The Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway A pictorial view of the "Dukeries Route" and branches. Blurb. ISBN978-1-78155-660-3. 06715029.
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