Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Tuesday 16 May 1893
Railway Development at Denaby Main
Rapid progress is being made with the new mineral line to be called the South Yorkshire Junction Railway, the purpose of which is to provide an outlet for the traffic of the Denaby Main and Cadeby collieries, via Wath and Wombwell, to Hull by the Hull and Barnsley line.
At Denaby Main, where the line begins, a big embankment 40 or 50 feet high has been raised, and it is wide enough to accommodate several lines of metals. As this is where the railway is connected with the colliery sidings, the necessity of it is apparent.
The embankment has not been a difficult work, the colliery spoil which could easily be got being the chief material used in making it. The course it takes is from Lowfield to the edge of Messrs. Kilner’s glass bottle works at New Conisborough, where the Don intersects it.
Here the foundations of a bridge are being dug out by means of tubing, and are laid some 15 or 20 feet below the river’s surface. On the further side of the river a wall for the bridge has already been constructed, and awaits the approach of the high embankment which is gradually crossing the valley from Cadeby hill-side.
This has got as far as the Dearne, and awaits the completion of the bridge for this river before it goes further. The bridges will allow great scope for even flood waters, as they are being built on a broad principle.