Kilnhurst West railway station was the second

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...

on the Midland line in

Kilnhurst Kilnhurst is a village in South Yorkshire, England, on the banks of the River Don and the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation. It grew up around the coal mining, ceramics, glass, brick-making and locomotive industries; none of these ind ...

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. It was one of two railway stations serving the village, the other being Kilnhurst Central. They were situated at either end of the village's main thoroughfare, Victoria Street. The first station in the village, believed to have been on the south side of the bridge, 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 ...

, was closed in January 1851. This station was located on the former North Midland Railway and was served mainly by Sheffield Midland - Cudworth -

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stopping services. The station booking office was at road level, with an entrance on Highthorn Road, and was linked to its four platforms by a covered wooden footbridge. By the early 1980s little remained of the station. The station was closed, along with others on the line, when these trains were axed on 1 January 1968. The line is still in use for freight, express passenger and local passenger trains, the nearest station to Kilnhurst is now approximately away at Swinton. Station House, the ex station manager's house still stands on the south west side of the

overbridge An overpass (called an overbridge or flyover in the United Kingdom and some other Commonwealth countries) is a bridge, road, railway or similar structure that crosses over another road or railway. An ''overpass'' and ''underpass'' together form ...

at the junction of Highthorn Road/Wentworth Road.

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Kilnhurst stations on navigable 1955 O. S. map
Disused railway stations in Rotherham Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1968 Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1841 Former Midland Railway stations {{Yorkshire-Humber-railstation-stub