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DerekC

DerekC

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Birdwell (1st station - see note)

The first station here was just west of what is now the A6135 which crossed the line on an overbridge. It is shown on the 1:10560 OS map dated 1855. By 1895 it is shown in its later position about 400m further west.
 
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DerekC said:
Birdwell (1st station - see note)....
The first station here was just west of what is now the A6135 which crossed the line on an overbridge. It is shown on the 1:10560 OS map dated 1855. By 1895 it is shown in its later position about 400m further west.
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I take this to be Birdwell & Hoyland Common which had the station site originally proposed by the railway company over-ruled by the Earl of Wharncliffe who insisted it be constructed on a site nearer to Barnsley as that served his commercial purposes better as at that time, he was sinking the shafts for Wharncliffe Silkstone Colliery. The station was not opened until February 1855.

The 1855 OS map you refer to was the site of the originally proposed station site from information available prior to the opening of the railway station and the later map would show the actual site of the railway station that was opened in February 1855.
 
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Xenophon PCDGS said:
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Xenophon PCDGS said:
INFORMATION

I take this to be Birdwell & Hoyland Common which had the station site originally proposed by the railway company over-ruled by the Earl of Wharncliffe who insisted it be constructed on a site nearer to Barnsley as that served his commercial purposes better as at that time, he was sinking the shafts for Wharncliffe Silkstone Colliery. The station was not opened until February 1855.
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The sources I can find are not clear about whether or not the station was actually opened on its originally planned site.

Xenophon PCDGS said:
The 1855 OS map you refer to was the site of the originally proposed station site from information available prior to the opening of the railway station and the later map would show the actual site of the railway station that was opened in February 1855.
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OS maps tend to show what is there rather than what is planned. The map shows such details as signal posts which are unlikely to have appeared on plans prepared in advance of construction,
 
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