Askern railway station was a station on the former Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway between Doncaster

Doncaster railway station

Doncaster railway station serves the town of Doncaster, in South Yorkshire, England. It is situated on the East Coast Main Line north of London Kings Cross, and is about five minutes walk from Doncaster town centre. The station is managed by East Coast...

 and Knottingley

Knottingley railway station

Knottingley railway station serves the town of Knottingley in West Yorkshire, England. It lies on the Pontefract Line, operated by Northern Rail, and is south east of Leeds railway station....

. It served the village of Askern

Askern

Askern is a town and civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, in South Yorkshire, England. It is on the A19 road between Doncaster and Selby. It became a spa town in the late 19th century, but this stopped once coal mines opened in the town. The last mine closed in the 1990s...

 in South Yorkshire

South Yorkshire

South Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. It has a population of 1.29 million. It consists of four metropolitan boroughs: Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, and City of Sheffield...

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

.

History

Opened by the L & Y.R., it became part of the London Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping

Railways Act 1921

The Railways Act 1921, also known as the Grouping Act, was an enactment by the British government of David Lloyd George intended to stem the losses being made by many of the country's 120 railway companies, move the railways away from internal competition, and to retain some of the benefits which...

 of 1923. It closed to passenger traffic in March 1947 but remained open for goods traffic a further 17 years. The station passed to the Eastern Region of British Railways

Eastern Region of British Railways

The Eastern Region was a region of British Railways from 1948. The region ceased to be an operating unit in its own right in the 1980s and was wound up at the end of 1992...

 on nationalisation.

The site today

Trains still pass the site (as the line is still open for freight traffic and the occasional diverted passenger train), although there is no station at Askern today. From May 2010 regular passenger trains (operated by Grand Union) will return to the line but not to Askern as no station is immediately planned. http://www.grandunionrail.co.uk/
In September 2008, as part of Doncaster Borough Councils report on rail corridors in the borough Askern, along with 7 other sites, was listed as one of the stations suitable for reopening in the future.