Tickhill and Wadworth railway station

Tickhill and Wadworth
General information
Location	Tickhill and Wadworth, Doncaster England
Coordinates	53.45158°N 1.12520°W / 53.45158; -1.12520
Grid reference	SK581953
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	South Yorkshire Joint Railway
Pre-grouping	South Yorkshire Joint Railway
Post-grouping	South Yorkshire Joint Railway
Key dates
1 December 1910	Opened
April 1926	Closed
25 July 1927	Reopened
8 July 1929	Closed for passengers
2 November 1964	closed for freight

Tickhill and Wadworth railway station, originally simply known as Tickhill, was located where the road linking the town of Tickhill and the village of Wadworth in its name crossed the South Yorkshire Joint Railway. Being about halfway between it was intended that it should serve both Tickhill and Wadworth, near Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England.

The station, opened on 1 December 1910, had two flanking platforms and substantial buildings in the "Double Pavilion" style. The passenger service, between Doncaster and Shireoaks was operated jointly by the Great Central Railway and the Great Northern Railway for the first year when the G.N.R. left the arrangement.

The station was closed temporarily between April 1926 and April 1927 and finally on 8 July 1929, after a bacterial outbreak due to horse faeces. However the wooden signal box at the station's southern end was still extant in 1959, when it was photographed by H. B. Priestly.

Only the station master's house and some remnants of the platform and the signal box's coal bunker still exist.

External links

• Philip L. Scowcroft, By road and rail: A brief history of Tickhill’s transportation (Occasional Paper No. 8) (PDF), Tickhill and District Local History Society, "Railway services", pp.15-18

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Maltby Line open, station closed		South Yorkshire Joint Railway		Doncaster Line and station open