Dovecliffe railway station

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Dovecliffe railway station was situated on the South Yorkshire Railway 's Blackburn Valley line between High Royds and Wombwell Main Junction. The station opened with the line on 4th September 1854 and closed on 7th December 1953. The line through the station remained open until the mid-1980s to allow freight access to Wombwell Main colliery, although the through line to Sheffield was severed between Birdwell and Westwood in in the late 1960s with the construction of the M1 motorway.

The station was originally named Smithley for Darley Main & Worsborough but its name was changed by the end of 1855 to Darkcliffe and again in early 1860 to Dovecliffe. It was controlled by a signal box which sat on the station roof. When the line opened, as a single line, there was no block working and when a box was needed it was required to be placed on the outer side of a bend to give better visibility. With the station buildings being very close to the level crossing the only place where the box could be erected was on the station roof.

The signal box was replaced in the 1960s with a BR standard brick-built box and was still standing in a much-vandalised state in 1988.