Rockingham railway station (South Yorkshire)

Rockingham (South Yorkshire)

Elsecar & Wentworth^[1]
Rockingham (South Yorkshire); Elsecar & Wentworth
Station on heritage railway
General information
Location	England
Coordinates	53°29′38″N 1°25′09″W / 53.49385°N 1.41906°W
Operated by	Elsecar Steam Railway; The Coalfield Line
Platforms	1
History
Opened	5 April 1996
Original company	South Yorkshire Railway

Rockingham (South Yorkshire) railway station is the terminus of the preserved line which is being built along the trackbed of the former Elsecar branch of the South Yorkshire Railway. The station is built within the Elsecar Heritage Centre, the former National Coal Board workshops at Elsecar.^[2] The station officially opened to passengers on 5 April 1996, when the inaugural train ran to Hemingfield.^[3]

The line runs from Rockingham station to Hemingfield Basin, alongside the Elsecar Branch of the Dearne and Dove Canal but it was intended to extend the line to Cortonwood with halts at Hemingfield and Cortonwood during 2013.^[4] However, by February 2017 the project was ongoing but still incomplete.^[5]

The station was called Rockingham by Barnsley Council (who re-opened the railway) after a second name of the Earl Fitzwilliam family, the original builders of the line in the 1850s.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b Brailsford, Martyn (2016). Railway track diagrams 2: Eastern (4 ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. p. 34E. ISBN 978-0-9549866-8-1.
^ ^a ^b ^c "The Coalfield Line". www.elsecarrailway.co.uk. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
^ Stewart-Smith, Robin (June 1996). "Elsecar Steam Railway Opens for Business". The Railway Magazine. Vol. 142, no. 1, 142. London: IPC Media. p. 32. ISSN 0033-8923.
^ "Railway extension project needs support". The South Yorkshire Times. 24 June 2013. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
^ "Extension to Cortonwood achieves major milestone". www.elsecarrailway.co.uk. Retrieved 22 June 2017.

Rockingham railway station (South Yorkshire)

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