Beighton railway station is a former railway station near the village of Beighton on the border between Derbyshire and South Yorkshire, England.

Three stations

Beighton station existed on three sites at different times: At the time this station was within Derbyshire but following changes in boundaries the site is now within the City of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.

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All three stations were in the flood plain of the River Rother, which repeatedly led to problems. In 1950 these plus the generally poor state of the station building led British Railways to raise platform levels and undertake other remedial works. Beighton station closed for the third and final time on 1 November 1954. It has since been demolished. In 1897 the Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway opened in a branch from Langwith Junction. The original hope had been to join the MS&LR line into Sheffield Victoria but it was rebuffed, so a goods yard and connection to the ex-North Midland line at Beighton was built instead, though this did not touch Beighton station. The LD&ECR obtained running rights along the Midland line to Treeton Junction and entered Sheffield via the Sheffield District Railway when it opened in 1900. In March 2021, the 120-year-old Beighton Station Junction signal cabin, the last remaining relic of the station, was demolished, with control of the lines passing to the York Rail Operating Centre.

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