From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Westwood railway station
Westwood railway station
Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Birdwell & Hoyland Common London and North Eastern Railway Chapeltown Central
South Yorkshire Railway
Westwood The original Westwood station, set in a wooded area,
was opened on 4 September 1854 on a single line to the
Location north of the level crossing. When the line was doubled in
Place High Green 1876 the station was staggered around the level crossing,
reopening on 9 October of that year, with its main build-
Area Barnsley
ings, brick built and similar to other on the line, on the
Coordinates 53°28′57″N 1°29′07″W / 53.48258°N Sheffield-bound platform.
1.48539°W / 53.48258; -1.48539Coordinates: Westwood signal box, a tall M.S.& L.R. hipped-roof
53°28′57″N 1°29′07″W / 53.48258°N type, was on the Barnsley-bound side of the line. From
1.48539°W / 53.48258; -1.48539
1876, when Absolute Block Working was introduced on
Grid SK342985 the line, a second signal box was built to control the
reference entry to Newbegin Colliery. Westwood signal box was
Operations closed in 1933 and replaced by a 6 lever ground frame to
control the sidings and crossing gate locks. The control
Original South Yorkshire Railway of its signals passed to Newbegin signal box.
company
Although passengers were sparse, the station was a
Post- London and North Eastern Railway second point for dealing with the traffic generated by
grouping Newton, Chambers & Company. That company’s locomo-
History tive fleet used the line between here and Chapeltown in
order to move between the two sites.
04 opened The station was closed on 28 October 1940. Although
September
1854 now heavily overgrown sections of the level crossing
platform and buildings are visible to the naked eye. West-
28 October closed wood station being one of three stations built to serve the
1940
High Green and Chapeltown area to date.
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom References
• "The South Yorkshire Railway", D. L. Franks,
Closed railway stations in Britain
A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z
Turntable Enterprises, 1971. ISBN 0-90284-404-4
Westwood railway station was situated on the South
Route
Yorkshire Railway’s Blackburn Valley line between
Chapeltown Central and Birdwell & Hoyland Common.
The station served an area of few houses apart from two
rows of miners’ cottages known as "Westwood Row". The
nearest settlement was at High Green, just over 1.5 miles
(2.4 km) away.
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