Wath engine shed

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Wath engine shed was a small locomotive depot built to the north of the township of Wath-upon-Dearne, near Rotherham, South Yorkshire, to service the freight locomotives of the Manchester-Sheffield-Wath electric railway. The Wath marshalling yard, opened by the Great Central Railway in 1907 formed the terminal point of the Woodhead Line electrification, where trains, in the main coal from the South Yorkshire coalfield, were formed for the journey over the Pennines to Manchester and beyond.

The shed was located at the north eastern corner of the yard, adjacent to the Moor Lane bridge. It had no allocation of its own, all the electric locomotives were allocated to Reddish depot, near Guide Bridge, Manchester.