Dearne Valley Railway
Disused railway in Yorkshire, England / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the former railway from Brierley to Doncaster. For the current service from York to Sheffield via Pontefract, see Dearne Valley Line.
The Dearne Valley Railway (DVR) was a railway line which ran through the valley of the River Dearne in South Yorkshire, England. It was incorporated by an Act of Parliament on 6 August 1897,[1] which authorised the building of a line between Brierley Junction, on the main line of the Hull and Barnsley Railway, to junctions with the Great Northern Railway and the Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway south-east of Doncaster.
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Although the line was considered an independent company it was worked by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (LYR). It opened in sections over seven years from 1902.