Spike Island was a workman's platform situated off the Great Northern Railway's mainline some south of

Doncaster Doncaster ( ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, city in South Yorkshire, England. Named after the River Don, Yorkshire, River Don, it is the administrative centre of the City of Doncaster metropolitan borough, and is the second largest se ...

, England, by the Carr Wagon Shops. It was situated off the Down Goods Line and was served by a

passenger train A passenger train is a train used to transport people along a railroad line, as opposed to a freight train that carries goods. These trains may consist of unpowered passenger railroad cars (also known as coaches or carriages) push-pull train, ...

, running non-stop, under express headlights, known as the ''Spike Island Flyer''. This brought staff from the main station to work in the wagon shops and returned them in the evening. The locomotive was the J52 which worked the wagon shop sidings during the day. The works closed in the early 1960s, production being moved to the plant works. The name "Spike Island" was given to the area around the wagon shops but its origins are unclear.

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{{reflist Disused railway stations in Doncaster