Killamarsh West railway station

A station was opened on the site by the North Midland Railway on its line between {{rws|Chesterfield}} and Rotherham which became known as the "Old Road". It was closed in 1843 by George Hudson during a period of financial difficulty.

A new station was built by the Midland Railway in 1873. Although locally it was commonly known as Killamarsh Midland, the name was not officially adopted.{{sfn|Bradshaw|1985|p=660}} It was renamed Killamarsh West by British Railways in 1950.{{sfn|Pixton|2001|p=24}}

It was of typical Midland design, brick built and timber, with a foot crossing between the platforms.

The station closed in 1954. The line is now part of the current Midland Main Line. It is used predominantly for freight, with a handful of passenger trains going the "long way round" from {{rws|Chesterfield}} to {{rws|Sheffield}} via the Old Road and {{rws|Darnall}} largely to retain staff route knowledge in case of diversions.{{Cite web |url=http://www.psul4all.free-online.co.uk/2013.htm |title=Old Road passenger traffic in 2013: via psul4all |access-date=22 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130701060420/http://www.psul4all.free-online.co.uk/2013.htm |archive-date=1 July 2013 |url-status=dead }}

There are virtually no remains of the station today, other than a large space beside the railway line where the platforms once occupied.

The site is inaccessible as the line remains open.

In 1922 passenger services calling at Killamarsh West were at their most intensive, with trains serving three destinations via three overlapping routes:

• On Sundays only
• stopping trains plied directly between {{rws|Rotherham Masborough}} and Chesterfield (MR) via the Old Road.
• On Mondays to Saturdays three stopping services plied between Sheffield (MR) and Chesterfield
• most ran direct down the "New Road" through {{rws|Dronfield}} and went nowhere near Killamarsh West.
• the other two services went the "long way round" via the "Old Road". They set off north eastwards from Sheffield (MR) towards Rotherham then swung east to go south along the Old Road
• one of these continued past {{rws|Holmes}}, a short distance before Masboro' then swung hard right, next stop Treeton, then all stations, including Killamarsh West, to Chesterfield,
• the other continued past {{rws|Attercliffe Road}} then swung right onto the Sheffield District Railway passing through or calling at West Tinsley and Catcliffe before Treeton, after which they called at all stations to Chesterfield.{{sfn|Bradshaw|1985|p=660}}

Three stations served the village of Killamarsh, all of which started as plain "Killamarsh":

• {{rws|Killamarsh Central}} on the former Great Central Railway's main line from {{rws|Nottingham Victoria}} to {{rws|Sheffield Victoria}}
• {{rws|Upperthorpe and Killamarsh}} on the former LD&ECR's "Beighton Branch",{{sfn|Dow|1965|p=111}} and
• Killamarsh West which is the subject of this article.

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• {{Bradshaw-1922July}}
• {{Butt-Stations}}
• {{cite book |last=Dow |first=George |author-link=George Dow |title=Great Central, Volume Three: Fay Sets the Pace, 1900–1922 |year=1965 |publisher=Ian Allan |location=Shepperton |isbn=0-7110-0263-0 }}
• {{cite book |last=Pixton |first=Bob |title=North Midland: Portrait of a Famous Route: Part 2 Chesterfield-Sheffield-Rotherham |year=2001 |publisher=Runpast Publishing, (now Book Law) |location=Nottingham |isbn=978-1-870754-51-4 }}

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• [http://www.npemap.org.uk/tiles/map.html#446,381,1 Killamarsh West (in white) on 1955 OS Map] npemaps
• [http://killamarsh.org/history/ Killamarsh West Station]Kllamarsh

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Line and station closed

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Line and station closed

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North Midland Railway "Old Road"

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Category:Disused railway stations in Sheffield

Category:Former Midland Railway stations

Category:Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1841

Category:Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1954