Beighton railway station is a former

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near the village of Beighton on the border between

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and

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, England.

Three stations

Beighton station existed on three sites at different times: * the first station, believed to have been little more than a halt, was opened by the

North Midland Railway The North Midland Railway was a British railway company, which opened its line from Derby to Rotherham (Masbrough) and Leeds in 1840. At Derby, it connected with the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway and the Midland Counties Railway at what ...

when it built its to line, which is now predominantly a freight route. At south of it stood approximately halfway between what is now Beighton Junction and the overbridge which still carries passenger trains east–west between and . This original station was opened when the line opened in June 1840, it was not near to or convenient for the village of Beighton and closed in January 1843. * in 1849 the

Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway The Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (MS&LR) was formed in 1847 when the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway joined with authorised but unbuilt railway companies, forming a proposed network from Manchester to Grimsb ...

(MS&LR) completed its Sheffield to Worksop line, which included a branch from just east of to join the North Midland line at what became known as Beighton Junction. They built Beighton's second station at a site on their line only, close to, but not on, the junction. The MS&LR hurried to open this branch to enable a revenue earning service to Eckington to commence and give connections to North Midland trains. This second station closed temporarily from 1852 to 1854 then continued in use until 1892. * in 1892 the MS&LR opened its "Derbyshire Lines" route near Beighton. This would eventually become part of the

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. On 1 November 1893 the MS&LR closed Beighton's second station and opened its third and final station at a site north west of the second site, immediately north of the Rotherham Road level crossing. At the time this station was within

but following changes in boundaries the site is now within the

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, England.

Context

All three stations were in the flood plain of the River Rother, which repeatedly led to problems. In 1950 these plus the generally poor state of the station building led

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ways to raise platform levels and undertake other remedial works. Beighton station closed for the third and final time on 1 November 1954. It has since been demolished. Shefdist

In 1897 the

Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway The Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway (LD&ECR) was built to connect coalfields in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire with Warrington and a new port on the Lincolnshire coast. It was a huge undertaking, and the company was unable to raise ...

opened in a branch from Langwith Junction. The original hope had been to join the MS&LR line into Sheffield Victoria but it was rebuffed, so a goods yard and connection to the ex-North Midland line at Beighton was built instead, though this did not touch Beighton station. The LD&ECR obtained running rights along the Midland line to Treeton Junction and entered Sheffield via the

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when it opened in 1900. In March 2021, the 120-year-old Beighton Station Junction signal cabin, the last remaining relic of the station, was demolished, with control of the lines passing to the

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External links

Beighton Station signalbox images: via ''flickr''

Beighton Station history: via ''disused-stations''

Beighton Station railway environs: via ''signalboxes''

Beighton Station: via ''picturesheffield''
{{Authority control Disused railway stations in Sheffield Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1893 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1954 Former Great Central Railway stations