Dave embarks on an exploration of probably the most outrageously closed route in UK railway history.
The Woodhead line was the 19th- century built, original railway link between Sheffield and Manchester and later becoming part of the Great Central Railway.
It would become home to Britain's first ever all electric mainline passenger service in the 1950s, only to see it's demise in 1970s with the cuts made by Dr Beeching.
In this first of a three part Trek along the four-mile section of the Woodhead Route between Sheffield and Penistone, we look at the part between Deepcar and Wortley.
Sadly truncated by the late 1980s built Stocksbridge Bypass, this 3/4 of a mile stretch through the silver birch woodland of Sheffield encompasses a weighty supply of the line's surviving rail infrastructure itself, with a large amount of ballast trackbed surface still exposed, line side fencing, cable junctions and several stumps belonging to the railway's former electrification supports all to lap up.
2ND PART NOW AVAILABLE
• The WOODHEAD Route. ...
Big thanks to the master of editing himself, Steve Windle for his work
Also to ArtHouse cafe @ Penistone for allowing me in with my muddy trainers on.
22 июн 2024
