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The Woodhead line was a railway line linking Sheffield, Penistone and Manchester in the north of England. A key feature of the route is the passage under the high moorlands of the northern Peak District through the Woodhead Tunnels. The line was electrified in 1953 and closed between Hadfield and Penistone in 1981.
Woodhead 3 opened in 1953, almost 100 years after Woodhead 2. Although the Hope Valley line was recommended for closure in the Beeching Report, instead, the government decided to cease passenger services on the Woodhead line, allegedly due to the high cost of upgrading and modernising the route. In 1970, the last passenger services ran through ...
Completion of the main line was delayed until 1954 by a collapse in the new Woodhead tunnel, and also by the decision to completely re-signal the whole main line with colour-light signals after sighting problems with the semaphore signals on the Wath branch (nevertheless, some semaphores were retained, which generally remained in service until ...
The main line was opened as far as Woodhead in 1844, with stations at Hadfield and Woodhead. [14] Construction of Woodhead Tunnel was the next hurdle, but improved pumping machinery had been installed, enabling better progress. Alliances and extensions of the network were in the minds of the directors.
A new station was opened in 1953 by the Eastern Region of British Railways on a different site in conjunction with the opening of the new Woodhead Tunnel and electrification of the line. The station was closed on 27 July 1964 but the line remained open for passengers trains until 1970 and to freight traffic until 1981.
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This route became more popularly known as the Woodhead Line. The station stood on the north side of Halifax Road between Neepsend and Oughtibridge stations. [3] The station closed to regular passenger service on 15 June 1959, [3] [2] with the Woodhead Line itself closing to passengers in 1970. [4]
Penistone railway station serves the town of Penistone, in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England.The current station, at the junction of the Woodhead Line and Penistone Line, opened in 1874; it replaced a station solely on the Woodhead Line, dating from the line's opening by the Sheffield, Ashton-Under-Lyne and Manchester Railway in 1845.