Anston railway station

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Anston railway station was situated on the Great Central and Midland Joint Railway line between the villages of North Anston and South Anston near Rotherham, South Yorkshire.

Passenger services on the line, which came under the control of the South Yorkshire Joint Committee began on 7th December 1910 and were operated by the Great Central Railway and the Great Northern Railway. The Great Northern Railway left this arrangement after just one year leaving the G.C.R. to offer a service between Doncaster and Shireoaks. This service was extended to Worksop in 1920 in an attempt to increase passenger revenues.

At the opening of the line there was no station at Anston, this was built later and opened to traffic on 20th May 1912. It was a double platform station with waiting shelters on each side. Construction was in wood, which on its closure on 2nd December 1929, made easy to relocate. It was moved to serve an army camp in Scotland during the Second World War.