As I discovered on Saturday, East Midlands Trains services are currently being diverted between Chesterfield and Sheffield because of work on Bradway Tunnel.
North of Chesterfield trains take the old North Midland line towards Rotherham which, as part of George Hudson original route from Euston to York, is an early piece of line. The route from Chesterfield to Sheffield was not built until later because of the considerable engineering works required.
At Beighton Junction trains leave the North Midland to join the Sheffield to Retford route. When I was a teenage rail enthusiast this line was electrified as part of the Woodhead route, but the catenary has long been dismantled.
Eventually you leave this line to enter Sheffield station from the north. So if you are catching the London train from Sheffield and want to sit facing the direction of travel, remember to take a seat facing the "wrong" way.
4 comments:
And in my days as a train planner we always called this diversionary route "the old road" ... because it was the old road (ok, railway) to Sheffield!
George Hudson? Don't you mean George Stevenson?
Hudson was the crooked financier that had a hand in the North Midland, but Stephenson was the engineer that actually built the line.
No, I mean George Hudson.
When is our trains going to get back to normal, there always seems to be works going on
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