Kiveton Park railway station

Kiveton Park National Rail
Kiveton Park Station
Location
Place South Anston
Local authority Rotherham
Coordinates 53°20′12″N 1°14′22″W / 53.3368°N 1.2394°W / 53.3368; -1.2394Coordinates: 53°20′12″N 1°14′22″W / 53.3368°N 1.2394°W / 53.3368; -1.2394
Grid reference SK507824
Operations
Station code KVP
Managed by Northern
Number of platforms 2
DfT category F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
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Annual rail passenger usage*
2012/13 Increase 53,912
2013/14 Increase 55,456
2014/15 Increase 51,692
2015/16 Increase 52,328
2016/17 Increase 52,384
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE Travel South Yorkshire
Zone Rotherham
History
Key dates Opened 1849 (1849)
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Kiveton Park from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Kiveton Park railway station serves Kiveton Park in South Yorkshire, England. The original station was opened by the Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction Railway in 1849, situated to the east of the level crossing and opened with the line. It was rebuilt in the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway "Double Pavilion" style, on the west side of the level crossing in 1884.[1]

Kiveton Park was a centre of lime working in the area and many company sidings came under the jurisdiction of its Station Master. Adjacent to the station was the Dog Kennels Lime and Stone Works, named after the road linking the station to Anston, and the Kiveton Park Lime and Stone Works. Just to the east were the Kiveton Park and Anston lime quarries. All the companies had lime burning facilities and agricultural lime was supplied, by rail, to outlets in Lincolnshire. Kiveton Park Colliery was located to the west of the station and was rail connected up until its closure in 1994.

Along with neighbouring Kiveton Bridge station it was completely rebuilt during the early-1990s with modern platforms, lighting and waiting shelters, this work being funded by the South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive. The only remaining part of the 1884 station is the Station Master's house (now privately owned) which stands on the Sheffield-bound (down) platform.[2]It is now unstaffed (all tickets must be purchased on the train or prior to travel, with train running details provided by display screens, telephone and timetable poster boards. Step-free access is available to both platforms from the adjacent level crossing (which is still operated from the adjacent signal box).[3]

The station is on Northern's Sheffield-Lincoln line and has a basic hourly weekday service (with peak extras) in each direction.[4] It is also served by the Saturdays-only Sheffield - Brigg - Cleethorpes trains (three each way).

Severe damage was caused to the embankment and tracks near here during the widespread flooding in 2007.[5] Repairs cost over £1 million and the line was closed for several weeks whilst the embankment was rebuilt and the tracks relaid.

References

"East of Sheffield", Roger Milnes. "Forward", the journal of the Great Central Railway Society, March 1978. ISSN 0141-4488

  1. ↑ Kiveton Park Railway Station (2009) Thompson, Nigel Geograph.org.uk; Retrieved 1 June 2017
  2. ↑ Kiveton Park Station BBC - Domesday Reloaded; Retrieved 1 June 2017
  3. ↑ Kiveton Park station facilities National Rail Enquiries
  4. ↑ Electronic National Rail Timetable (May 2017 ed.). National Rail Enquiries. Table 30.
  5. ↑ Network Rail - GETTING BACK ON TRACK IN YORKSHIRE, 29 June 2007
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