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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.
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 ...
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 ...
Many Manchester–Leeds trains run via the Huddersfield line/North Transpennine Route. Railway routes crossing the Pennines include the Hope Valley line/South Transpennine Route (Manchester–Sheffield). The High Speed North project aims to improve public transport journey times between the major cities in the North of England.
The process to conclude these things took some time, but it resulted in transfer of the Manchester to London express passenger service to the route via Retford and the Great Northern Railway, in the same journey time as formerly via the LNWR. Of course much mineral traffic followed this transfer.
Network Rail has published target times from Manchester to be achieved after the completion of the Northern Hub projects. [2] Leeds and Manchester target time: 40 minutes - a reduction of 14 minutes; Bradford and Manchester target time: 50 minutes - a reduction of 10 minutes; Manchester and Sheffield target time: 40 minutes - a reduction of 8 ...
The Glossop line is a railway line connecting the city of Manchester with the towns of Hadfield and Glossop in Derbyshire, England. It formed part of the historic Great Central Main Line between Manchester Piccadilly and Sheffield Victoria. Passenger services on the line are operated by Northern Trains.
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.