Wath North | |
Status: | Disused |
Borough: | Wath-upon-Dearne, Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham |
Country: | England |
Coordinates: | 53.5097°N -1.3337°W |
Grid Name: | Grid reference |
Platforms: | 2 |
Original: | Midland Railway |
Postgroup: | London, Midland and Scottish Railway |
Years: | 6 April 1841 |
Events: | Station opened as Wath |
Years1: | 1 May 1850 |
Events1: | renamed Wath and Bolton |
Years2: | April 1914 |
Events2: | renamed Wath-on-Dearne |
Years3: | 25 September 1950 |
Events3: | renamed Wath North |
Years4: | 1 January 1968 |
Events4: | Station closed[1] |
Wath North railway station was on the Midland Railway's Sheffield - Cudworth - Normanton - Leeds main line, serving the town of Wath-upon-Dearne, South Yorkshire, England.[2] The town had three railway stations, of which Wath North was the furthest from the town centre; it was three-quarters of a mile to the north, in an area of heavy industry away from residential areas, on the road to Bolton-on-Dearne.
It was built by the North Midland Railway in 1841, the year after the railway opened, and was called Wath and Bolton. It was a victim of the Beeching axe, closing on 1 January 1968 when the local Sheffield-Cudworth-Leeds passenger trains were withdrawn. Express passenger and freight trains continued to pass through the station until 1986 when the line was closed due to severe subsidence; few remains of the station were present at that time.