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Moorthorpe
The restored Moorthorpe railway station
General information
Location
Moorthorpe and South Kirkby, City of Wakefield England
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road
Moorthorpe railway station serves the village of Moorthorpe and town of South Kirkby in West Yorkshire, England. It lies on the Wakefield Line and the Dearne Valley Line, 18+1⁄4 miles (29.4 km) north of Sheffield and is served by Northern.
The station was opened in May 1879, jointly by the Midland Railway and North Eastern Railway, as part of their Swinton and Knottingley Joint Railway scheme. A short chord was also built at the same time to link the S&K Joint line with the main Doncaster to Leeds line at South Kirkby Junction. Upon opening, Moorthorpe marked the northern limit of the part of the line maintained by the Midland Railway; the southern end of the intersection bridge over the Doncaster to Leeds line, marked the actual boundary. North of that point, the North Eastern Railway undertook the maintenance. Moorthorpe station is of North Eastern Railway design, as is Pontefract Baghill.[1]
This latter connection is now part of the main line between Sheffield and Leeds, and is used by CrossCountry services between Edinburgh Waverley and Birmingham New Street, and beyond. In addition, local trains on the Leeds – Rotherham Central – Sheffield route (Wakefield Line) use the spur and call at the station. This connecting line is now effectively the main line, and it splits from the S & K route immediately north of the station, with the track to York then bridging the GNR main line on its way northwards. This junction (and the adjacent loops to the south of the station) was controlled from the nearby Midland Railway signal box until May 2011, but following signalling equipment renewal work the area is now under the control of the ROC at York.[2]
After the station was reduced to the status of an unstaffed halt in the 1980s, the station building was converted into a pub. This closed in the early 1990s and the building became derelict. However it has recently been restored by the town council, with funding from the Railway Heritage Trust, to include office space and a cafe.[3][4]
A footbridge was opened at the station at the end of May 2010; previously passengers had to cross the tracks at a flat crossing.[5][6]
^Sheffield Daily Telegraph. 24 April 1879. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
^"Moorthorpe and Hickleton Area Signalling Renewals"Network Rail Consulting; Retrieved 18 November 2016
^Paul Salveson (January 2012). "Moorthorpe - Yorkshire's New Showpiece". RailProfessional.
^Andy Savage (30 April 2014). "Conserving the railway's past". Rail Magazine. No. 747. pp. 52–57.
^Rail. No. 631. p. 15. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
^"Moorthorpe bridge opens to improve pedestrian safety" (Press release). Network Rail. 1 June 2010. Archived from the original on 29 February 2012. Retrieved 1 June 2010.
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