Mexborough

CRS Code	MEX
Collected date	16/09/18

The building at Mexborough, on the Sheffield to Doncaster line, is still in railway use unlike many others. The front of the station building faces north towards Station Road:

The entrance to the ticket office:

Though there's a side entrance when the ticket office isn't open:

Inside there is a small corridor with ticket windows on the left and doors into the waiting room on the right adorned with BR logos:

The waiting area has a few seats around the edges but also some surrounding a central fish tank:

It looks like nothing less than a fish-powered TARDIS:

In the waiting room is a plaque to the memory of Lance Corporal Thomas Norman Jackson VC, who was an engine cleaner for the Great Central Railway at Mexborough before going to war:

In the corridor outside the waiting room a plaque marks the 1991 refurbishment of Mexborough station:

Two other plaques note its second prize in the small station category in 1991 and 1992:

A more sombre plaque sits by the exit from the ticket office onto the platform, in the form of this Great Central Railway war memorial:

The rear of the station building backs on to platform 2:

Looking in the other direction on platform 2:

On platform 2, looking west towards the footbridge:

From the very end of platform 2 looking back west at the station:

Looking east along the line:

At the other end of the station a footbridge connects the two platforms:

Up on the footbridge looking east:

Looking west along the line from the footbridge:

Mexborough Junction "signalbox":

Platform 1 does not have a big fancy building so has to make do with shelters:

A long view of platform 1 from platform 2 opposite:

Behind the fencing on platform 1 a disused platform edge can be seen. The station was once a junction and more tracks ran through here:

A striking zig-zag ramp leads down from platform 1 to provide step-free access from the front of the station building:

At the end of the ramp, this underpass provides more evidence that Mexborough was once larger: supports for more tracks than the two that pass over now:

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