Dinnington and Laughton railway station

Dinnington and Laughton
Dinnington and Laughton
	Site of the station in 2015
General information
Location	Dinnington and Laughton, Rotherham; England
Coordinates	53°22′45″N 1°14′04″W / 53.37912°N 1.23444°W
Grid reference	SK510871
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
Key dates
December 1910	Station opens
April 1926	Station closes
April 1927	Station reopens
1929	Station 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

^ Tuffrey, Peter (2011). South Yorkshire railway stations : Adwick-le-Street to Wortley. Stroud: Amberley. p. 40. ISBN 978-1445601229.
^ Grant, Donald J (2017). Directory of the Railway Companies of Great Britain. Leicestershire: Matador. p. 501. ISBN 9781785893537.
^ Batty, Stephen R. (July 2004). Rail Centres: Doncaster. Shepperton: Ian Allan. p. 78. ISBN 0-7110-2004-3.
^ Body, Geoffrey (1986). Railways of the Eastern Region Volume 1: Southern operating Area. Wellingborough: Patrick Stephens. p. 31. ISBN 0850597129.
^ Shannon, Paul (June 2010). "Red in the atlas". Railways Illustrated. Vol. 8, no. 6. Stamford: Key Publishing. p. 57.
^ 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

External links

Dinnington and Laughton station on navigable 1955 O. S. map

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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[1] Tuffrey, Peter (2011). South Yorkshire railway stations : Adwick-le-Street to Wortley. Stroud: Amberley. p. 40. ISBN 978-1445601229.

[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.

[6] Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (2016). Railway Track Diagrams Book 2: Eastern (4 ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. p. 34. ISBN 978-0-9549866-8-1.

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