Rotherham Westgate Station

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Rotherham Westgate railway station was the eastern terminus of the five-mile long Sheffield and Rotherham Railway, the first passenger-carrying railway in the Sheffield area. Lying in central Rotherham, it was a two-platform terminus station with a locomotive release at the terminus end. The station became known by the townsfolk as the "Rabbit Hutch" because of its all wooden construction, although behind the buffers, situated on Westgate itself was the local control office, a solid stone building which survived into the late 1960s. In its latter days the station building was used to store dismantled market stalls. It was this railway that gave Rotherham United's Millmoor ground its stand name 'Railway End'.

Following the opening of the North Midland Railway between Leeds and Derby a new station about a mile from the town centre came into being in the district known as "Masborough" (sometimes spelt "Masbrough" as in the town's "Masbrough Street"). A junction was laid connecting this north-south line to the Sheffield and Rotherham Railway at Holmes, giving the North Midland access to the Wicker terminal of the S&R in Sheffield. The Sheffield and Rotherham eventually became part of the Midland Railway following amalgamations in 1844. Westgate was used only infrequently for local Sheffield-Rotherham stopping trains after this time, but it was not finally closed to passengers until 1952, and continued on after that time for freight until the line was severed west of Westgate station for a major road scheme. A new Post Office sorting centre was built on the site of the station in the early 1970s. The remaining part of the railway line serves Booth's scrapyard.