Attercliffe Road railway station
Attercliffe Road | |
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General information | |
Location | Attercliffe, City of Sheffield England |
Coordinates | 53°23′21″N 1°27′00″W / 53.389140°N 1.450110°W |
Grid reference | SK366881 |
Platforms | 2 |
Other information | |
Status | Disused |
History | |
Pre-grouping | Midland Railway |
Post-grouping | LMSR London Midland Region of British Railways |
Key dates | |
1 February 1870 | Opened[1] |
1995 | Closed |
Attercliffe Road railway station is a former
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The station served the communities of
History
The station was opened at the same time as the main line from
Opened by the
When sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Regional Railways in co-operation with the South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive until the privatisation of British Rail.
The decline of Sheffield's steel industry in the later half of the 20th century gradually reduced the passenger usage and made the station less and less needed. By the 1980s only certain morning and evening peak trains called at the station, as stopping trains there exacerbated capacity problems in the major bottleneck north of Sheffield Midland. By the early 1990s this lack of trains had caused the station's patronage to dwindle to a level at which closure was easily justified, again with line capacity constraints being quoted as the reason, with the end coming in 1995.
Little is left of the station but the platforms which can be seen from moving trains. The underpass is blocked by overgrown vegetation although the gated entrance can still be seen from Leveson Street just by the bridge over the
References
Notes
- ^ Butt 1995, p. 21.
- ^ "The Sheffield and Chesterfield District Railway. The New stations". Sheffield Daily Telegraph. British Newspaper Archive. 13 April 1869. Retrieved 12 July 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
Sources
- OL 11956311M.
- Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. OCLC 228266687.
- Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. OCLC 22311137.
- Station on navigable O.S. map The station is the minor one to the north of the two main Sheffield stations
External links
Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
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Sheffield Midland Line and station open |
Midland Railway | Grimesthorpe Bridge Line open, station closed | ||
Great Central Railway Sheffield District Railway |
West Tinsley Line and station closed |