Wath North railway station

Wath North
Embankment on which the former station was located (2013)
General information
Location	Wath-upon-Dearne, Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham England
Coordinates	53°30′35″N1°20′01″W / 53.50973°N 1.33367°W / 53.50973; -1.33367
Grid reference	SE442016
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Midland Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
6 April 1841	Station opened as Wath
1 May 1850	renamed Wath and Bolton
April 1914	renamed Wath-on-Dearne
25 September 1950	renamed Wath North
1 January 1968	Station closed [1]
Location

Wath North railway station was on the Midland Railway's Sheffield - Cudworth - Normanton - Leeds main line, serving the town of Wath-upon-Dearne, South Yorkshire, England. ^[2] The town had three railway stations, of which Wath North was the furthest from the town centre; it was three-quarters of a mile to the north, in an area of heavy industry away from residential areas, on the road to Bolton-on-Dearne.

It was built by the North Midland Railway in 1841, the year after the railway opened, and was called Wath and Bolton. It was a victim of the Beeching axe, closing on 1 January 1968 when the local Sheffield-Cudworth-Leeds passenger trains were withdrawn. Express passenger and freight trains continued to pass through the station until 1986 when the line was closed due to severe subsidence; few remains of the station were present at that time.

References

1. Butt, R.V.J., (1995) The Directory of Railway Stations, Yeovil: Patrick Stephens
2. Pixton, B., (2000) North Midland: Portrait of a Famous Route, Runpast Publishing

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Swinton Town		BR Eastern Region Sheffield-Cudworth-Leeds Line		Darfield