Woodhead line information

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 Woodhead Tunnels are three parallel trans-Pennine 3-mile (4.8 km) long railway tunnels on the Woodhead Line, a former major rail link from Manchester...

Woodhead railway station was a railway station that served the hamlet of Woodhead on the Woodhead Line. The station was opened on 8 April 1844 by the Sheffield...

Stockport-Stalybridge Line trains to cross the junction at 30 mph (max) rather than 15 mph as previously. With the electrification of the Woodhead Line between Manchester...

time of the Beeching review, the line was running in competition with the recently modernised and faster Woodhead Line and its closure was suggested. On...

kV DC, Bo+Bo electric locomotive designed for use on the now-closed Woodhead Line in Northern England. The prototype, LNER No. 6701, was completed at...

Lanarkshire Woodhead Line, railway line in the north of England, featuring: Woodhead railway station Woodhead Tunnel Woodhead (surname) Woodhead Commission...

Junction to Whaley Bridge, was an industrial line. Passenger services followed, including the Woodhead Line (Sheffield to Manchester, via Longdendale) and...

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...

for local services between Manchester, Glossop and Hadfield on the Woodhead Line, which was electrified in 1954 on the 1,500 V DC overhead system. There...

closure in 1969, particularly all-stopping trains. shared with the former Woodhead Line and present-day Glossop and Hope Valley lines to Manchester Piccadilly...

closure of the Hope Valley line and the retention of Woodhead services, the government chose to implement the opposite; Woodhead Line passenger services beyond...

station took on great importance when the line through the Pennines, known as the Woodhead Route after the long Woodhead Tunnel on it, was electrified for freight...

They were built by Metropolitan-Vickers in 1953–1954 for use over the Woodhead Line between Manchester and Sheffield. Seven locomotives of this type were...

of Hadfield to Penistone and Sheffield via the Woodhead Tunnel. Passenger trains on the Woodhead Line were withdrawn east of Hadfield on 5 January 1970...

Trains. The line is the surviving section, west of the Pennines, of the Woodhead Line, which was electrified in the early 1950s; passenger services east of...

000,000 imperial gallons (19,000 Ml). The Woodhead Line, which followed the river from Hadfield to the Woodhead Tunnel portal, was an important cross-Pennine...

Traction Depot was built adjacent to the line in 1954, to maintain the new fleet of electric trains for the Woodhead Line. It remained open until 1983; it has...

Central Railway (GCR) line from Manchester via the Woodhead Tunnel, travelling eastwards. It deviates from the former main line towards Sheffield Victoria...

Manchester and Sheffield. First opened in 1844 as part of the original Woodhead Line by the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway (later the...

The Midland Main Line (MML) is a major railway line from London to Sheffield in Yorkshire via the East Midlands. It comprises the lines from London's St...

available for use on the line, covering Zones 3–5. The line is served predominantly by four-coach Class 333 electric multiple units. The line was originally owned...

than the Wakefield line. Services on this line are operated by Northern Trains. Services from Leeds to Nottingham also use the line. West Yorkshire MetroCards...