Wath North railway station was on the

Midland Railway The Midland Railway (MR) was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1844. The Midland was one of the largest railway companies in Britain in the early 20th century, and the largest employer in Derby, where it had its headquarters. It am ...

's Sheffield - Cudworth - Normanton - Leeds main line, serving the town of

Wath-upon-Dearne Wath upon Dearne (shortened to Wath or often hyphenated) is a town south of the River Dearne in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England, north of Rotherham and almost midway between Barnsley and Doncaster. It had a pop ...

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, England.Pixton, B., (2000) ''North Midland: Portrait of a Famous Route,'' Runpast Publishing The town had three railway stations, of which Wath North was the furthest from the town centre; it was three-quarters of a mile to the north, in an area of

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away from residential areas, on the road to Bolton-on-Dearne. It was built 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 ...

in 1841, the year after the railway opened, and was called Wath and Bolton. It was a victim of the

Beeching axe The Beeching cuts (also Beeching Axe) was a plan to increase the efficiency of the nationalised railway system in Great Britain. The plan was outlined in two reports: ''The Reshaping of British Railways'' (1963) and ''The Development of the ...

, closing on 1 January 1968 when the local Sheffield-Cudworth-Leeds passenger trains were withdrawn. Express passenger and freight trains continued to pass through the station until 1986 when the line was closed due to severe subsidence; few remains of the station were present at that time.

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Wath upon Dearne Disused railway stations in Rotherham Former Midland Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1841 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1968 Beeching closures in England {{Yorkshire-Humber-railstation-stub