Swallownest railway station was a planned railway station which was planned to open to serve the growing townships of

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and

Swallownest Swallownest is a village in the civil parish of Aston cum Aughton and the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. The village is south of Rotherham and from Sheffield. Swallownest borders the Sheffield suburb of Woodhouse ...

east of

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. It appeared in the British Railways Working Timetable very briefly in the Autumn changes in 1993 being withdrawn from them at the following change (Spring 1994). The plan was to build a small station at the point where the Sheffield Victoria to

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line passed beneath the Swallownest to Beighton road (Chesterfield Road) on the south side to the villages, approximately one mile west of the site of the old Waleswood Station which closed in 1955. As part of the plan to increase rail usage in the area and with the expansion of Swallownest towards the line this was considered the best location for a station which could then be incorporated into the timetable. On the original maps provided with the transport plan the station was situated east of the road bridge to enable a chord line to be built from the

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"old road", south of

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to the

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line, diverting trains via Brightside Junction and the

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to reach this point before using the chord to return to the Great Central. This plan also involved the reopening of West Tinsley as Meadowhall (Tivoli Gardens), the name coming from the Leisure park planned for the adjacent site, never built. This would also involve the closure of

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and Woodhouse. Because of South Yorkshire PTE's policy of developing railways and not closing stations this was revised and it was decided to retain the line and service as it was, the Sheffield District line from Brightside Junction being closed and eventually lifted as far as Shepcote Lane Junction at the north end of Tinsley Yard. Although the station appeared in the working timetable it never appeared in the public timetable or on other station timetables in the area. This showed all trains, in both directions, stopping. However, as the station was not built, it was withdrawn from the timetable at the following Spring changes.

References

* South Yorkshire County Council 10 year Transport Plan, published 1990. * British Railways Working Timetables * Sheffield A-Z, , Published by Geographers' A-Z Map Company Ltd.,2005 edition, Ref. H1, Page (Map) 115. {{coord, 53.3561, -1.3259, type:railwaystation_region:GB, display=title Disused railway stations in Rotherham