Killamarsh West railway station

Killamarsh West
Killamarsh West
	Passing the remains of Killamarsh West in 1957
General information
Location	Halfway, City of Sheffield; England
Coordinates	53°19′35″N 1°19′51″W / 53.3263°N 1.3307°W
Grid reference	SK 446 812
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	North Midland Railway
Pre-grouping	Midland Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
6 April 1841	Station opened as "Killamarsh"
2 January 1843	closed
21 January 1873	reopened
25 September 1950	renamed "Killamarsh West"
1 February 1954	Station closed

Killamarsh West is a former railway station in Halfway, South Yorkshire, England.

History edit

A station was opened on the site by the North Midland Railway on its line between Chesterfield and Rotherham which became known as the "Old Road". It was closed in 1843 by George Hudson during a period of financial difficulty.

A new station was built by the Midland Railway in 1873. Although locally it was commonly known as Killamarsh Midland, the name was not officially adopted.^[2] It was renamed Killamarsh West by British Railways in 1950.^[3]

It was of typical Midland design, brick built and timber, with a foot crossing between the platforms.

The station closed in 1954. The line is now part of the current Midland Main Line. It is used predominantly for freight, with a handful of passenger trains going the "long way round" from Chesterfield to Sheffield via the Old Road and Darnall largely to retain staff route knowledge in case of diversions.^[4]

Today edit

There are virtually no remains of the station today, other than a large space beside the railway line where the platforms once occupied. The site is inaccessible as the line remains open.

Passenger services edit

In 1922 passenger services calling at Killamarsh West were at their most intensive, with trains serving three destinations via three overlapping routes:

On Sundays only
- stopping trains plied directly between Rotherham Masborough and Chesterfield (MR) via the Old Road.
On Mondays to Saturdays three stopping services plied between Sheffield (MR) and Chesterfield
- most ran direct down the "New Road" through Dronfield and went nowhere near Killamarsh West.
the other two services went the "long way round" via the "Old Road". They set off north eastwards from Sheffield (MR) towards Rotherham then swung east to go south along the Old Road
- one of these continued past Holmes, a short distance before Masboro' then swung hard right, next stop Treeton, then all stations, including Killamarsh West, to Chesterfield,
- the other continued past Attercliffe Road then swung right onto the Sheffield District Railway passing through or calling at West Tinsley and Catcliffe before Treeton, after which they called at all stations to Chesterfield.^[2]