South Yorkshire Joint Railway (Great Central Railway, Great Northern Railway, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Midland Railway and North Eastern Railway)




Portions of line and locations

This line is divided into a number of portions.


Dinnington to Doncaster









UK Railtours excursion from St. Pancras to Cleethorpes, on the ex-South Yorkshire Joint Railway freight only line between Shireoaks and Kirk Sandall, ...
David Bosher 07/05/2016
The rear of Maltby Colliery Sidings Signal Box, standing alongside Scotch Spring Lane rail overbridge, approximately 7 miles east of Rotherham, in ...
David Pesterfield 14/02/2012
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Maltby Colliery Sidings Signal Box controlling access to the large Hargreaves operated coal mine across the line to its left. ...
David Pesterfield 14/02/2012
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Firbeck Junction, Tickhill, looking north to Doncaster. The line to the left runs to Doncaster and that to the right (out of use) to Harworth ...
Ewan Crawford 19/11/2006
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Tickhill & Wadworth station on the South Yorkshire Joint Railway opened on 1st December 1910 and closed on 2nd December 1929 when passenger services ...
David Bosher 07/05/2016
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Laughton Connection








Firbeck Colliery Branch

Firbeck Junction, Tickhill, looking north to Doncaster. The line to the left runs to Doncaster and that to the right (out of use) to Harworth ...
Ewan Crawford 19/11/2006
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Harworth Colliery Branch



Mothballed track running towards the closed Harworth Colliery rapid loading bunker - sited just beyond the left hand curve. View from Blyth Road on 14 ...
David Pesterfield 14/02/2012
The disused track at the former Harworth Colliery site. The view is towards the loading point. A very long conveyor crossed the nearby hills to reach ...
Ewan Crawford 19/11/2006
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Doncaster Bypass



Loading point at Markham Main Colliery, Armthorpe, in the 1980s. The colliery finally closed in 1996 and a housing estate now stands on the site. See ...
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A train of house coal bound for Scotland behind 37239 stands in the colliery sidings at Markham Main, near Doncaster, in the late 1980s. See image ...
David Spaven //
37239 in the sidings at Markham Main Colliery, Armthorpe, on the eastern edge of Doncaster, in the late 1980s. The wagons are FPAs with Russell 30' ...
David Spaven //
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