Rotherham Masbrough

CRS Code	***
Collected date	21/09/18

Until 1988, Rotherham's station was not the current Rotherham Central station but an older station about half a mile west. Fortunately it still has both platforms and a station building visible from nearby roads.

Here we look down Prince's Street at the junction with Station Road on the left. The Prince of Wales Hotel on the left is an old railway hotel and the station building is on the right:

The front of the hotel, which has very mixed reviews:

The front of the station building opposite. It's now the "Orient Express" Chinese restaurant and takeaway:

A view of the station building from the other end:

At the north end of the station building there's a short stretch of boundary wall and an access point to the platforms:

From Midland Road which crosses the platforms just north of the station building we can see the rear of the station building:

Looking south from Midland Road at the former up platform:

The central island platform is partly succumbing to grass:

The westernmost platform, which once had another line running west of it, now lost somewhere in the shrubbery:

Coronation bridge which crosses the line just south of the station is painted "Midland Railway Goods and Coal Station":

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