Masbrough railway station was the main railway station for Rotherham for many years, having been opened in 1840 by the North Midland Railway as an interchange with the Sheffield and Rotherham Railway.
From 1966, Sheffield - Doncaster services were switched from Sheffield Victoria to Sheffield (Midland) station, and thus ran over the North Midland line through Rotherham Masborough as far north as Aldwarke Junction (south of Kilnhurst).
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The first was the North Midland Railway route from Derby to Leeds, later part of the Midland Railway and later still the LMS, whose station was Killamarsh West, located on the section known as the "Old Road": the original direct route between Chesterfield and Rotherham avoiding Sheffield.
As well as the fine station building the York and North Midland Railway also provided other characteristic Andrews buildings, a stone built goods shed with wooden extension and a gas works - one of the earliest surviving railway gasworks buildings - occupied the area now known as 'the Ropery', the goods shed was demolished to make way for the new road but the gas works retort and purifier house still stands today adjacent to the new road.