Kiveton Park railway station

Kiveton Park
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 from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2010/11	47,526
2011/12	49,024
2012/13	53,912
2013/14	55,456
2014/15	51,692
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.

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.

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 which stands on the Sheffield-bound (down) platform.

The station is on Northern's Sheffield-Lincoln line and has a basic hourly weekday service (with peak extras) in each direction.^[1] It is also served by the Saturdays-only Sheffield - Brigg - Cleethorpes trains (three each way).

Severe damage was caused to the embankment and tracks during the widespread flooding in 2007. ^[2]

References

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

External links

• Train times and station information for Kiveton Park railway station from National Rail

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Kiveton Bridge		Northern Sheffield-Lincoln Line		Shireoaks