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Barnsley Interchange is a combined rail and bus station in the centre of Barnsley, South Yorkshire. It was first opened in 1850 as Barnsley Exchange railway station and is 16 miles (26 km) north of Sheffield. It is on the Hallam and Penistone Lines, both operated by Northern Trains.
Wath upon Dearne (shortened to Wath / ˈ w ɒ θ / or often hyphenated) is a town south of the River Dearne in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England, 5 miles (8 km) north of Rotherham and almost midway between Barnsley and Doncaster. It had a population of 11,816 at the 2011 census. [2]
The main bus operator in the town is Stagecoach Yorkshire, providing an extensive network of services into Doncaster & throughout the Dearne Valley, referred to as "The Dearne Link". Buses run at least every ten minutes into Doncaster & Mexborough and at least half-hourly through to Barnsley , Wath, Cortonwood & Rotherham .
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On 29 April 2018, the bus station was closed for more permanent repairs and a full refurbishment costing £12 million; [2] it reopened on 3 March 2019. [3] During the closure of Rotherham Interchange, bus services departed from Greasbrough Road and a temporary bus station on the site of the former Forge Island Tesco supermarket.
Another route from Dale Road ran up a hill to Conanby, where there was a new housing estate. This was known as Conisbrough High. The Company were also talking to the Dearne District Light Railway about the possibility of them constructing a new route from Bolton on Dearne to Manvers Lane. [8]
Wath marshalling yard, also known as Wath concentration yard (grid reference), was a large railway marshalling yard specifically designed for the concentration of coal traffic. It was set at the heart of the South Yorkshire Coalfield, at Wath-upon-Dearne, approximately halfway between Barnsley and Doncaster, in the United Kingdom. It opened in ...
The Dearne District Light Railway was a tramway linking Barnsley with the towns of Wombwell, Wath, Bolton on Dearne and Thurnscoe. [1] Opened on 14 July 1924, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] it was the last street tramway to be built in the UK before the modern era (starting in the late 20th century) and one of the first to shut.