Dinnington and Laughton
Site of the station in 2015
General information
LocationDinnington and Laughton, Rotherham
England
Coordinates53°22′45″N 1°14′04″W / 53.37912°N 1.23444°W / 53.37912; -1.23444
Grid referenceSK510871
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
Key dates
December 1910Station opens
April 1926Station closes
April 1927Station reopens
1929Station closes

Dinnington and Laughton railway station was situated on the South Yorkshire Joint Railway line between the town of Dinnington and village of Laughton-en-le-Morthen, near Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England.[1]

The station was opened in December 1910 and it was served by a Doncaster - Shireoaks passenger service provided jointly by the Great Central Railway (GCR) and the Great Northern Railway (GNR).[2] The GNR left this arrangement after just one year and the GCR carried on, extending the service to Worksop in 1920.[3] The service closed between April 1926 and April 1927 and finally in 1929.[4]

The station buildings, a wooden booking office / waiting room and lamp room on the Worksop bound platform and brick built structures opposite lasted until the mid - 1960s before demolition. The signal box, named Dinnington Station and situated at the south end of the Doncaster bound platform, was abolished in 1973.

The line is still open to freight trains, and empty coaching stock moves and along with Network Rail recording trains and trains to and from WH Davis wagon works at Shirebrook.[5][6]

References

  1. ↑ Tuffrey, Peter (2011). South Yorkshire railway stations : Adwick-le-Street to Wortley. Stroud: Amberley. p. 40. ISBN 1445601222.
  2. ↑ Grant, Donald J (2017). Directory of the Railway Companies of Great Britain. Leicestershire: Matador. p. 501. ISBN 9781785893537.
  3. ↑ Batty, Stephen R. (July 2004). Rail Centres: Doncaster. Shepperton: Ian Allan. p. 78. ISBN 0-7110-2004-3.
  4. ↑ Body, Geoffrey (1986). Railways of the Eastern Region Volume 1: Southern operating Area. Wellingborough: Patrick Stephens. p. 31. ISBN 0850597129.
  5. ↑ Shannon, Paul (June 2010). "Red in the atlas". Railways Illustrated. Vol. 8, no. 6. Stamford: Key Publishing. p. 57. Closed access icon
  6. ↑ Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (2016). Railway Track Diagrams Book 2: Eastern (4 ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. p. 34. ISBN 978-0-9549866-8-1.
  • "Railways of the South Yorkshire Coalfield from 1880", A.L.Barnett, RCTS.
  • "Railway Memories No.21 : Rotherham, Mexborough and Wath", A.Booth & S.Chapman, Beecode Books, 2009. ISBN 978-1-871233-21-6
  • "Forward" the journal of the Great Central Railway Society. Various articles in numbers 82 to 89 covering the GCR Joint Lines ISSN 0141-4488
Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Anston
Line open, station closed		   Great Central and Midland Joint Railway
South Yorkshire Joint Railway		   Maltby
Line open, station closed


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