Disused railway lines and closed stations in South Yorkshire

240 miles of disused railway
114 closed stations
29 stations open today
65 named lost lines

South Yorkshire has 240 miles of disused railway and 114 closed stations, against 29 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 3.9 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Woodhead Line, with 21 miles of its route inside South Yorkshire.

See South Yorkshire’s lost railways on the map

The map opens on the county with the disused lines and closed stations drawn over today’s network. Tap any closed station for its history, or any grey line for its name.

What is left of it

The 240 miles of lost railway in South Yorkshire break down as 182 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 50 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left, 4.5 miles with track still in place but no trains and 3.1 miles dismantled. These are OpenStreetMap’s own distinctions, made by the people who surveyed each stretch, so a line can appear under more than one state along its length.

Lost railway lines in South Yorkshire

65 named lines with disused track in the county, longest stretch first. The mileage is the part inside South Yorkshire; a line crossing the border is counted on both sides.

Line	Miles in county
Woodhead Line	21
Gowdall and Braithwell Line	18
Dearne Valley Railway	17
Smithywood Colliery Branch	11
Denaby Branch	10
Worsbrough Branch	8.7
Penistone and Doncaster Line	7.9
Wath Branch	6.6
Hull and Barnsley Railway	6.4
Old Oaks to Nostell Line	6.0
Rotherham Maltby and Laughton Railway	5.8
Wharncliffe Branch	3.7
Tapton Junction to Colne Line	3.4
Manchester and Cleethorpes Line	2.9
Thurcroft Colliery Branch	2.7
Brightside and Treeton Junction (via Tinsley) Line	2.6
Houghton Main Branch	2.5
Barnsley Branch	2.3
Stairfoot and Cudworth Line	2.3
Harworth Colliery Branch	2.2
Droppingwell Colliery Branch	2.1
Wharncliffe Colliery Branch	1.9
Thurgoland Coal Branch	1.9
Bullcroft Colliery Branch	1.8
Nunnery Junction to Woodburn Junction Curve	1.8
Silverwood Colliery Branch	1.8
Elsecar Heritage Railway	1.7
Silkstone Branch	1.6
Beighton to Annesley Branch	1.6
Thorncliffe Colliery	1.5
Bentley New Colliery Line	1.4
Hatfield Moor Branch	1.3
Brightside and Treeton Junction Line	1.2
Misson Branch	1.2
Hampole to Moorhouse Loop	1.1
Thorne Colliery	1.1
Corton Wood Colliery Branch	1.1
Oakwell Junction to Stairfoot North Line	1.1
Wicker Branch	1.0
North Gawber Colliery Line	0.9

And 25 shorter stretches: Wath Junction to Dearne Junction, Woodburn Junction to Mexborough East Junction Line, Firbeck East Curve, Aldam Curve, Cudworth Station Branch, Goldthorpe Colliery Branch, Tapton Junction (Chesterfield) to Colne Line, Attercliffe Junction to Darnall West Junction Curve, North Staveley Curve, Blackburn Valley Branch, Firbeck Colliery Branch, Monk Bretton Branch, Thurcroft Colliery, Wincobank North Curve, Brancliffe West Curve, Laughton East Junction to West Junction, Spring Grove Paper Mill, Westhorpe Colliery Line, Darnall Depot, Frickley Colliery Branch, Stairfoot Branch, Swinton Ironworks Branch, Westgate Branch, Park Spring Road and St Catherine's Junction to Black Carr East Junction.

Closed railway stations in South Yorkshire

All 114 closed and former stations in South Yorkshire, A to Z. Each name opens the map on the station; the Wikipedia link, where there is one, has its history.

Stations still open in South Yorkshire

29 stations in South Yorkshire still have a train service. The busiest are Sheffield (10.3 million a year), Doncaster (4.5 million a year), Meadowhall Interchange (1.9 million a year), Barnsley Interchange (1.5 million a year) and Rotherham Central (463,418 a year). Every one has its own page, with the stations you can reach from it directly and how often the trains run: see the A to Z of stations.

Lost railways nearby

West Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, East Riding of Yorkshire, North Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.

About these figures

The disused lines are the stretches OpenStreetMap records as disused, abandoned, razed or dismantled railway, measured segment by segment and given to the county each segment lies in. The closed stations are Wikidata’s record of British railway stations no longer in service, kept where they are not within a few hundred metres of a station still open. County boundaries are today’s ceremonial counties, with unitary authorities folded into the county they sit in, from the Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024). Historic county lines were different, and a closed station a mile over the border is on the neighbouring page.

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