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Kilnhurst West railway station

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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.
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The line is still in use for freight, express passenger and local passenger trains, the nearest station to Kilnhurst is now approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) away at
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The station was closed, along with others on the line, when these trains were axed on 1 January 1968.
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This station was located on the former North Midland Railway and was served mainly by
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Probable site of the first station in Kilnhurst, closed in 1851
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Disused railway station in South Yorkshire, England
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Kilnhurst
Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham
53°28′15″N 1°18′27″W / 53.4709°N 1.3076°W / 53.4709; -1.3076
Grid reference
SK460973
North Midland Railway
Midland Railway
London, Midland and Scottish Railway

railway station
Kilnhurst
South Yorkshire
England
Kilnhurst Central
North Midland Railway
Sheffield Midland
Cudworth
Leeds
Swinton
overbridge
Kilnhurst stations on navigable 1955 O. S. map
Parkgate and Rawmarsh
Sheffield-Cudworth-Leeds Line
Swinton Town
Stub icon
Yorkshire and the Humber
stub
expanding it
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