Norton railway station (South Yorkshire)

Norton (South Yorkshire)
Norton, The level crossing and Old Station House
Location
Place	Norton
Area	Doncaster
Coordinates	53°37′55″N 1°09′45″W / 53.63205°N 1.16237°W / 53.63205; -1.16237Coordinates: 53°37′55″N 1°09′45″W / 53.63205°N 1.16237°W / 53.63205; -1.16237
Grid reference	SE554153
Operations
Original company	Wakefield, Pontefract and Goole Railway
Pre-grouping	Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Platforms	2
History
6 June 1848 (1848-06-06)	Station opened
10 March 1947	Last train
27 September 1948	Official closure
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Norton (South Yorkshire) railway station was a railway station to serve Norton, South Yorkshire, England. It was built by the Wakefield, Pontefract and Goole Railway company on their line between Doncaster and Knottingley. The line and its stations were absorbed into the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in 1847 when that company changed its name from the Manchester and Leeds Railway.

The station buildings were similar to those at Womersley and were described as "Swiss Cottage" style. They are a stone built construction with a clipped gable end.

At the grouping it passed to the LMS and British Railways on nationalisation. The station closed to passengers on 27 September 1948.^[1] But the railway line is still open and now carries freight trains (mainly bulk coal) to and from the power stations at Drax, Ferrybridge & Eggborough, along with Grand Central's passenger services between Bradford Interchange and London Kings Cross since 2010.

As part of a report to Doncaster Borough Council in September 2008 the station site was to be protected for future use in a strategy for the railways in the borough, reopening being a distant possibility.^[2]

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