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Dist:0.2km<br/>Why was this relatively modern housing estate built with kerbs like this?

©Steve Fareham

Dist:0.3km<br/>The big sheds in the background are the new Next warehouses at Manvers.

©Steve Fareham

©Dave Bevis

©Robert Neilson

Dist:0.5km<br/>Quick tanning going into Mexborough.

©Steve Fareham

Dist:0.5km<br/>What appears to be a short section of wall is actually part of a former railway bridge. The cutting on both sides of Queen Street has been landfilled up to and above the level of the road - witness the newly constructed tarmac footpath going behind the "wall". The former Wath Road landfill site, behind the wooden fence, that used the cutting is now closed and the site has been landscaped.

©David Wilkinson

©Steve Fareham

Dist:0.7km<br/>View SE, towards Swinton and Sheffield Midland: ex-Midland Sheffield - Leeds/York main line, approaching where the York (Swinton & Knottingley Joint) line branched off the main line to Leeds - the line via Cudworth and Normanton subsequently abandoned. Underneath here the ex-GC line from Wath Yard etc. to Mexborough etc. passed underneath. (See also for example [[[2350907]]]). The locomotive is Fowler 6'9" 3-cylinder Compound 4P 4-4-0 No. 41068 (built. c.1925, withdrawn 12/58). A train of high-capacity coke wagons is passing on the Up Goods line.

©Ben Brooksbank

Dist:0.7km<br/>As part of a programme of housing improvement to deal with long-standing social problems in the area, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister chose to fund the demolition and rebuilding of Kirby Street. By July 2007, most inhabitants had moved out and certain building materials had been crudely removed by persons unknown, leaving the scene shown here.

©David Wilkinson

Dist:0.7km<br/>View SE, with an Up freight (headed by LMS 4F 0-6-0 No. 44428) on the ex-Midland Leeds - Sheffield main line crossing over the ex-Great Central Penistone, Barnsley - Wath Yard - Mexborough - Doncaster/Sheffield line as ex-GC J11 0-6-0 No. 64363 runs tender-first towards Mexborough. Just through the bridge can be glimpsed the Swinton & Knottingley (Midland & NE) Joint line coming from the left from Knottingley and York. (Another train-watcher's paradise).

©Ben Brooksbank

Dist:0.7km<br/>This is the town's one remaining cobbled street. Mexborough is built on the north bank of the River Don and the steep slope of this and nearby streets is the result. The houses visible are typical of terraced properties in the area and date from the 1890s to the early 1920s.

©David Wilkinson

Dist:0.7km<br/>View northward, towards Leeds and York: ex-Midland main lines - see [[[2763852]]] and other images for details. This train is headed by ex-Midland Johnson/Deeley 5' 3" 3F 0-6-0 No. 43233, which lasted until 11/59.

©Ben Brooksbank

$Dist:0.8km<br/>View northward, to the signalbox - just visible, then left towards Cudworth, Normanton and Leeds, right towards Pontefract and York. Here ex- MIdland 3F 0-6-0 No. 43714 is bringing up a Class J goods on the Up Fast line while a train of high-capacity coke wagons is running parallel on the Up Slow. Underneath ran the ex-Great Central main line between Mexborough and Wath Yard - see [[2141688]].$

©Ben Brooksbank

Dist:0.8km<br/>View NW, with the Midland Main Line passing above at Wath Road Junction Box. (See [[[2141688]]] for details). The locomotive is ex-Great Northern 0-6-0 No. 4174.

©Dave Bevis

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