Wincobank railway station

Wincobank railway station, previously named "Wincobank and Meadow Hall", was a railway station in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. The station served the communities of Brightside and Wincobank and was situated on the Midland Main Line on Meadowhall Road, lying between Holmes and Brightside stations.

The station was opened on 1 April 1868 [cite book|last=Batty|first=Stephen R.|title=Rail Centres No.11: Sheffield|year=1984|pages=44] and had two platforms although four tracks went through. The two outside tracks were for freight use whilst the two inside tracks were used by both stopping and express trains. Only two were in general use as there were two slow and two fast lines. The station was situated just on the Rotherham side of the junction to the "Blackburn Valley" line of the South Yorkshire Railway which itself was just east of the Midland Railway junction which took services from Sheffield to Barnsley. The station closed in 1956 as the immediate area was but sparsely populated and the nearby Brightside station more practical. The remains of the station were obliterated when the Meadowhall Interchange station was built on the site and opened in 1990.

The station changed names several times. In 1868 the station opened as Wincobank. It was renamed "Wincobank and Meadow Hall station" in July 1899 and back to "Wincobank station" in June 1951.

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*Meadowhall Interchange, present station of the same name and location.
*Meadow Hall and Wincobank railway station, on the South Yorkshire Railway