Hickleton and Thurnscoe Halt railway station

Hickleton and Thurnscoe Halt
Station location (1995)
General information
Location	Thurnscoe, Barnsley England
Coordinates	53°32′38″N 1°18′30″W / 53.5440°N 1.3083°W / 53.5440; -1.3083
Grid reference	SE459054
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Hull and South Yorkshire Extension Railway
Pre-grouping	Hull and Barnsley Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
1902	opened
1929	closed

Hickleton and Thurnscoe Halt was a small railway station on the Hull and Barnsley Railway line between Wrangbrook Junction and Wath-upon-Dearne. The halt was built to serve the mining villages of Hickleton and Thurnscoe, near Barnsley, South Yorkshire and was situated in the centre of Thurnscoe at the point where the line crosses over the main Barnsley road. Hickleton village was situated over 0.5 miles (0.8 km) away.

The station was situated 3 miles (4.8 km) south of Moorhouse and South Elmsall and consisted of a single wooden platform with a single storey "Double Pavilion" style wooden station building. The platform surface was of gravel and the station opened on 28 August 1902 and closed, along with the others on the line, on 6 April 1929.

The line was controlled by two standard H&B style signal boxes named "Hickleton Station" and "Hickleton Colliery".

Immediately south of the station was the entrance to Hickleton Main Colliery where the H&B shared sidings with the Swinton and Knottingley Joint Railway line.