Rotherham Central Station has services to Doncaster, Wakefield, Leeds, Meadowhall, Sheffield and York.<\/p>\n
There is also a limited Transpennine Express service to Manchester and Liverpool.<\/p>\n
The town’s restricted rail links came about because of the closure of its second station, Rotherham Masborough, in 1988.<\/p>\n
This station was on a line to London via Birmingham, and London to Leeds expresses still called there until the 1980s. <\/p>\n
It became the town’s only station in the 1960s, but it later became inconvenient when changes to the signalling meant the long-distance services could not overtake local trains as easily.<\/p>\n
In the 1980s a link was built between the main and local lines that allowed trains to Sheffield and Doncaster to use reopened Rotherham Central.<\/p>\n
However, the line through the old Masborough site survives and is still used by fast trains to Leeds and York, which currently bypass Rotherham Central.<\/p>\n
Rotherham Council leader Chris Read said journey times to Leeds could be cut to half an hour, and Manchester and Birmingham to an hour.<\/p>\n
He added: “The station creates new business opportunities to relocate here too.<\/p>\n
“It’s definitely not a done deal, and I’d urge everyone to sign up to our station campaign to help us maintain momentum for the project. But this week marks a big and important step forward.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rotherham Central Station has services to Doncaster, Wakefield, Leeds, Meadowhall, Sheffield and York. There is also a limited…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-701696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115909448415684203","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}