M1 motorway the A5, the motorway takes a more northerly route through the East Midlands, via Leicester, Loughborough, Nottingham to Sheffield, where the M18 splits from the M1 at Junction 32 to head to Doncaster. Originally, the M1 was planned to end at Doncaster but it was decided to make what was going to be the "Leeds and Sheffield Spur" the primary route with the section to the A1(M) south of Doncaster given the separate motorway number M18. From Junction 32, the motorway passes Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley and Wakefield, reaching the original end of the motorway at (the original) Junction 44 to
Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Wakefield, Huddersfield and Goole Railway Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Wakefield, Huddersfield and Goole Railway The Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Wakefield, Huddersfield and Goole Railway was an early British railway company. The company obtained an act in 1846 for 26 miles of railway, with a main section from Wakefield to Doncaster via Barnsley. The section south of Barnsley became the property of the South Yorkshire, Doncaster & Goole Railway Company , and the northern section was amalgamated into the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway , after which the original company was dissolved. The "Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Wakefield, Huddersfield, and Goole Railway" (SRBWH&GR) applied to parliament in the 1845/6 session