Staveley or Barrow Hill

[RDNA]

I have a recollection of seeing the boxes at Barrow Hill on the Midland Railway's Tapton Junction to Rotherham line named Staveley (eg Staveley South) in a pre 1960 sectional appendix that I no longer have access to.

Can any one confirm this? If so when did the name changes occur and were they instigated by the Eastern Region due to a regional boundary change?

Thanks in anticipation,

DB

[John Hinson]

Although the station had been renamed Barrow Hill & Staveley Works in 1900 the boxes did not follow suit at that time. It was the 18/6/51 renaming to plain Barrow Hill that initiated the change.

John

[RDNA]

Thanks John, much earlier than I was guessing then.

DB

[John Hinson]

Whether it had anything to do with the LMR also having a Staveley in Westmorland is hard to say. Generally renamings for that problem took place in LMS days.

J

[RDNA]

Whether it had anything to do with the LMR also having a Staveley in Westmorland is hard to say. Generally renamings for that problem took place in LMS days.

J

I wondered about 'Staveley Central' on the adjacent GCR line, with that and 'Staveley Town' the ER would have a lot of Staveleys when thy took over!

DB

[John Hinson]

Ah, good thinking. The LMS and LNER wouldn't have worried about that but under the BR umbrella things would perhaps be different. 1951 is a not untypical date for resolving such issues (irrespective of which region they came under).

J