Bramwith railway station was a small station on the

South Yorkshire Railway The South Yorkshire Railway was a railway company with lines in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. Initially promoted as the South Yorkshire Coal Railway in 1845, the railway was enabled by an act of 1847 as the South Yorkshire Doncaster and ...

's line between

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and Thorne. It served the village of

Kirk Bramwith Kirk Bramwith is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster in South Yorkshire, England. It had a population of 200 in 2001, increasing to 320 at the 2011 Census. The village centre is located on a narrow strip of land ...

, near

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. The original line followed closely the canal bank coming close to the village. The original station was opened with the line on 7 July 1856 and closed on 1 October 1866. With the new "straightened" line being further from the village this station was not resited.

References

*''The South Yorkshire Railway'', D.L.Franks. Turntable Enterprises, 1971. *''The Railways of South Yorkshire'', C.T.Goode, Dalesman Publishing. Disused railway stations in Doncaster Former South Yorkshire Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1856 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1866 {{Yorkshire-Humber-railstation-stub