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The Manchester–Sheffield–Wath electric railway was an electrification scheme on British railways. The route featured long ascents on both sides of the Pennines with the long Woodhead Tunnel at its central summit close to the Woodhead pass. This led to the route being called the Woodhead Line.
In 1868, the term was used to describe the Midland Railway main route from North to South through Sheffield [49] and also on routes to Manchester, Leeds and Carlisle. Under British Rail the term was used to define the route between St Pancras and Sheffield, but since then, Network Rail has restricted it in its description of Route 19 [ 50 ] to ...
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.
The Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire ... and at Guide Bridge station, ... Class D7 4-4-0 1887–1894 operated the MS&LR express trains, Manchester to London ...
Railway Clearing House map showing the Wadsley Bridge to Sheffield Victoria section of the route. The route from Manchester to Sheffield was 41 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (66.8 km) with stops at Gorton, Guide Bridge, Newton, Godley Junction, Broadbottom, Glossop and Dinting, Glossop Central, Hadfield, Crowden, Woodhead, Dunford Bridge, Hazlehead Bridge, Penistone, Wortley, Deepcar, Oughtibridge, Wadsley ...
For many years the Midland had been wishing to extend its line from London St.Pancras to Manchester, via Derby and the Manchester, Buxton, Matlock and Midlands Junction Railway. It was thwarted by the London and North Western Railway which already had a line from Manchester to London, via Birmingham and had built a branch line to Buxton.
It is on the Manchester-Glossop Line, 10 miles (16 km) east of Manchester Piccadilly. It was opened by the Sheffield, Ashton-Under-Lyne and Manchester Railway in 1842. It was renamed Mottram in 1845, but has since reverted to its original name. East of the station is Broadbottom Viaduct which carries the line 120 feet (37 m) over the River ...
Guide Bridge junction in its 1912 context. It was built by the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway on its new line from Ardwick Junction, near to the Manchester and Birmingham Railway's terminus at Store Street station, to Sheffield; it opened as Ashton and Hooley Hill on 11 November 1841 when the line opened as far as Godley Toll Bar.
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