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The Hope Valley line is a trans-Pennine railway line in Northern England, linking Manchester with Sheffield.It was completed in 1894. Passenger services on the line are operated by Northern Trains, East Midlands Railway and TransPennine Express, while the quarries around Hope, producing stone and cement, provide a source of freight traffic.
Increasing friction with LNWR led to the Cheshire Lines Committee being formed and when Manchester Central opened in 1880 trains were diverted at Romiley through Stockport Teviot Dale (as it was originally spelt). [2] This entailed another new line, the Manchester South District Railway, from Heaton Mersey to Chorlton-cum-Hardy. Although ...
Local passenger services to Buxton (Midland), Rowsley and Matlock were withdrawn from 6 March 1967; [2] the route closed to passengers the following year, along with the line to Manchester Central west of Cheadle Heath. The few surviving London trains via Sheffield ceased to call in 1972 and had disappeared altogether by 1979.
The Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway was an early British railway company which opened in stages between 1841 and 1845 between Sheffield and Manchester via Ashton-under-Lyne. The Peak District formed a formidable barrier, and the line's engineer constructed Woodhead Tunnel , over three miles (4.8 km) long.
The London line from Millers Dale closed in 1967 and the Hayfield branch closed in January 1970, but the station still supports the Hope Valley Line local service from Sheffield to Manchester. Stopping trains from Sheffield formerly terminated here and those passengers wishing to travel onwards to Manchester had to change trains (most express ...
This allowed trains to/from Stockport and Manchester Piccadilly to access the former Manchester Central – New Mills South Junction line, just south of Hazel Grove station; this provides a faster route between Manchester and Sheffield than the former route via Romiley and New Mills Central. The chord also enables Sheffield trains to serve ...
The junction just outside the station was the scene of a crash on 22 August 1990. At at around 09:50, two trains collided across the single lead junction where the two routes diverged; these were the 09:33 from Rose Hill Marple to Manchester Piccadilly and the 09:36 from Manchester Piccadilly to Sheffield. There were 28 minor injuries amongst ...
The Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway ... The times were bad for raising ... Class D7 4-4-0 1887–1894 operated the MS&LR express trains, Manchester to ...