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The railway was aligned approximately North North East so that it also followed a gentle gradient. It opened in October 1838 , crossing the path of the future North Midland near Masborough , the latter arriving there nearly two years later in 1840 . A branch was included to link the railway to the North Midland in a northerly direction from Sheffield at Rotherham Masborough Station . A path to the south was installed in 1869 . There was also a branch from the Greasbrough collieries. It seems to have been built by mainly local expertise. The first director was George Wilton Chambers, a coal master, and its secretary was Thomas Pearson, a civil engineer and also a coalmaster. Two of the engineers were John Stephenson (not known to be a relation of George) who introduced scientific methods into earthwork construction and the excavation of deep cuttings, and Isaac Dodds whose "talent for invention was highly respected in his day", which included the job of designing the railway's first engine ''The Cutler''. Whether this locomotive was built by him, or whether the railway itself built any, is unclrear, though Dodds left in 1842 to sert up in business on his own. Certainly, at that time, Demeand must have been outstripping supply. One engine, the 2-2-2 ''Agilis'' was supplied in 1839 by Fenton, Murray And Jackson , who provided another ''Rotherham'', built under subcontract by Bingley and Company of Leeds .. Another, the ''Sheffield'', said to be the first to have been built in that city, was provided in 1840 by Davy Brothers. When the Midland Railway was formed, the Sheffield and Rotherham was its first acquisition in 1845 . In 1870 it built a line from Chesterfield through Sheffield, which rejoined the old line at Masborough. Thus at least part of the S&R remains in daily main line use. REFERENCES
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