Rotherham Central
Rotherham Central station, looking north, on 22nd January 2020. The first station here was only temporary, opened on 1st August 1868 and replaced by a permanent station called Rotherham Central on 1st February 1874. It closed during Beeching and Barbara Castle's disgraceful purge of the former Great Central Railway on 5th September 1966 and was demolished. Rotherham Masborough on the Midland Line remained open but this was more than half a mile from the town centre. Fortunes turned however, and trains were switched back to the old GCR route through a brand new Rotherham Central station on 11th May 1987 with Rotherham Masborough closing the following year. On 25th October 2018, Rotherham Central station became served by the UK's first Tram-Train service, hence the overhead wires, when South Yorkshire Supertram opened the Tinsley Chord at Meadowhall which connects the tramway with National Rail tracks and along which the Tram-Trains run to a new terminus at Rotherham Parkgate, calling at Rotherham Central. Two new lower platforms for the Tram-Trains were added at the south end of Central station, linked to the National Rail platforms by ramps. All very new and interesting.
See query 2235
Location: Rotherham Central
Original line: Meadowhall to Mexborough Line (South Yorkshire Railway and River Dun Navigation)
Photographer: David Bosher
Contact photographer: David Bosher
Photosets: English stations, National and Heritage Lines (excluding London) 1979-2023 Station nameboards, National and Heritage lines 1974-2023
Date: 22/01/2020
Image number: 71991
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