Anston railway station

Infobox UK disused station
name = Anston


caption =
locale = Worksop
borough = South Yorkshire
line =
manager = Midland Railway / Great Central Railway
owner = Joint London Midland and Scottish Railway and London and North Eastern Railway line
platforms = 2
latitude =
longitude =
gridref =
years = 20 May 1912
events = Station opens
years1 = June 1921
events1 = Station closes
years2 = October 1921
events2 = Station reopens
years3 = April 1926
events3 = Station closes
years4 = 25 July 1927
events4 = Station reopens
years5 = 2 December 1929
events5 = Station closes

Anston railway station was situated on the Great Central and Midland Joint Railway line between the villages of North Anston and South Anston near Rotherham, South Yorkshire.

Passenger services on the line, which came under the control of the South Yorkshire Joint Committee began on 7th December 1910 and were operated by the Great Central Railway and the Great Northern Railway. The Great Northern Railway left this arrangement after just one year leaving the G.C.R. to offer a service between Doncaster and Shireoaks. This service was extended to Worksop in 1920 in an attempt to increase passenger revenues.

At the opening of the line there was no station at Anston, this was built later and opened to traffic on 20th May 1912. It was a double platform station with waiting shelters on each side. Construction was in wood, which on its closure on 2nd December 1929, made easy to relocate. It was moved to serve an army camp in Scotland during the Second World War.

History

Opened by the South Yorkshire Joint Railway, a joint Great Central / Great Northern line, it became a joint London, Midland and Scottish Railway and London and North Eastern Railway line during the Grouping of 1923. The station closed in 1929, but the line's freight services passed to the Eastern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

The site today

The line through the site remains open to freight services.

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References

"Rails through Anston" by Bob Gellatly. Forward, the journal of The Great Central Railway Society, No.87, June 1992. ISSN-0141-4488
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