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Stairfoot Railway Station
Photo of Stairfoot station as it was in the 1950s (info provided is 1958 but that contradicts the closing date of this station).
Stairfoot was a railway station in South Yorkshire, England and served Ardsley and Stairfoot. It was opened in 1851 as Ardsley and was rebuilt in 1871. It also 'made history' by being the scene of a crash on 12 December 1870 between a goods and a passenger train resulting in 15 deaths.
Due to competition from road transport it closed in 1957.
The first steam locomotive (showing the RCTS sign for a Railway and Travel Correspondents Society excursion) is the 61165.
Photo © The Step Back Through Time Collection
Picture added on 09 August 2010 at 09:13
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Step back through Time, trains and stations
Step back through Time, trains and stations
England
The view is probably towards the south east; lines in the foreground may run towards Wakefield, left, and to Barnsley, right. This was a Great Central Railway line prior to the 1923 Grouping. A little to the north one of these lines junctioned with a branch of the Hull and Barnsley. This 66-mile line opened in July 1885: Hull was an expanding port and its people mistrusted the North Eastern Railway. Leading citizens wanted to develop it as a coal export port like Cardiff, and hence the railway development. Its main line reached Cudworth, but never got through to Barnsley.
61165 was a B1 4-6-0 built by the Vulcan Foundry in 1947. It was first shedded at Mexborough, north east of Rotherham and at withdrawl in November 1964 was based at Canklow, between Sheffield and Rotherham. It appears to be piloting an ex-GCR 'Director' 4-4-0. These had all been withdrawn by the end of 1962, although one 'Improved Director' has survived into preservation.
The site of the station now appears to be on a Trans-Pennine way