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Lion " Titfield Thunderbolt " on its way from the Manchester Museum of Science to the Dinting Railway Centre, passing a Class 76 near Newton for Hyde in 1980. © mollyschase

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Wicker Arches, with Sheffield Victoria out of sight to the right in 1955. Old Sheffield tram network closed in October 1960. Passenger services from Sheffield Victoria to Manchester Piccadilly withdrawn January 1970. ©BRS

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EM1 26056 passes Neepsend in a misty autumn setting, with an afternoon Sheffield Victoria to Manchester Piccadilly passenger service on the 1st October 1966. © Barry Collins.

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40 Years Ago Today. Not going without a fight, the last convoy of class 76s heading for CF Booths scrapyard in Rotherham, was stopped at Sheffield Midland station on the 24/11/1983 due to 76043 having a slight axel box fire. © Roger5450

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December 1978. 76049 passes the reservoir just the east of Crowden with a mix freight working. The loco was originally named "Jason" © John Tomlinson

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The last loco-hauled service train over the Woodhead Route on the 22/3/1981. 45101 works the 0746 St Pancras-Manchester Piccadilly on the approach to Torside. 📷 Les Nixon.

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🥶 Dunford Bridge in the winter of 1969. EM1 26050 Stentor is in charge of an afternoon Sheffield Victoria to Manchester Piccadilly service. © Timothy McDermott.

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As the sun creeps over the surrounding hills, an eastbound empty freight train pulls away from a frosty Hadfield station on the climb to the summit at Woodhead. An unrecorded Bo-Bo electric glides pasted on the 27th December 1969. © Robin Lush

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In 1967 a local Working Men's Club at Worsborough chartered a train for an outing to Cleethorpes. The Worsborough branch being freight only with no passenger stations, required passengers to access the train by means of wooden steps. © P. Howard

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Merry Christmas from the admin team. We hope you have enjoyed this page which is only been going for 14 months.

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A class 45 hauls a diverted St. Pancras to Manchester Piccadilly service over the Woodhead route near Crowden on Sunday 1st February 1981. Diverted Sunday traffic would finish soon after this, as the line would close in July. © Mike Walker.

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To keep everybody cool in this hot weather. We will post this picture again, taken from the back of a brake van passing Dunford East signal box on the 4th January 1979. © Arnie Furniss.

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An unidentified Class 76 passes over the Five Arches opposite the Sheffield Wednesday ground in 1969, in the last year of full electric passenger services between Sheffield Victoria and Manchester Piccadilly. © Ian Farr #swfc

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The last loco-hauled service train over the Woodhead line was on the 22/3/1981. 45101 works the 0746 St Pancras-Manchester Piccadilly on the approach to Torside. © Les Nixon.

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A nice picture to cool everybody down. Taken from the rear of a brake van on the 4th of January 1979 as it passes Dunford East signal box. © Arnie Furniss.

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Merry Christmas to all our followers.

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Tinsley Yard on the night of 17th July 1981 … barely 24 hours remain and the Woodhead Route would be closed. The section into Tinsley yard was electrified in 1965 and lasted just 16 years. © RSF

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On This Day..17th June 1981. Due to a points failure the Huddersfield to Sheffield Midland passenger service which went through the closed Sheffield Victoria was terminated there. These incredible pictures show passengers being escorted through the ruins of the station. ©IBLRG

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2 months before closure of the Woodhead Route, this was the scene at Guide Bridge holding sidings in April 1981. © David Chamberlain.

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August 1980, and Lion " Titfield Thunderbold " , crosses over the Dinting viaduct and under the Woodhead Routes 1500 volt DC catenary, enroute from the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry to the Dinting Railway Museum. © Derek Phillips.

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The next train to arrive at Platform 1 at @NetworkRailMAN in 1969 was electric E26051 with a service from Sheffield Victoria via the Woodhead Route. © Derek Phillips.

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42 AGO TODAY. The Woodhead Route was closed. 76006 & 76014 head the last electric service through Penistone shortly before 5 a.m. on the 18th of July 1981. The service was the late running Harwich to Edge Hill SpeedLink train. © Norman Daley.

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Prototype EM1 26000 " Tommy " stands at Platform 1 at Manchester Piccadilly station on the 18th October 1969, awaiting to work a passenger service to Sheffield Victoria. Sadly this prototype loco was scrapped at Crewe in 1972. © Jim Freebury.

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39 years ago today. 17th June 1981. Due to a points failure the Huddersfield to Sheffield Midland passenger service which went through the closed Sheffield Victoria was terminated there. These incredible pictures show passengers being escorted through the ruins of the station.

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Double electric traction at Guide Bridge in 1967. Now preserved E27000 " Electra" is on a Manchester Piccadilly to Sheffield Victoria passenger service. Passing light engine in the opposite direction is E26013 which was renumbered 76013 in 1972. © Vili Adam.

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A Class 76 on a mix freight train in the winter of 1979. Unknown photographer.

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The train standing on Platform 1 at @NetworkRailMAN on the 11/11/1969 was the 1145am service from Sheffield Victoria via Woodhead in the hands of E26055 " Prometheus " © George Woods.

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E27001 " Ariadne " is seen on the Wicker Arches next to Sheffield Victoria in 1957. Electric for the future ? Sadly not here, the tram network finished in October 1960 and the Woodhead Passenger services finished in January 1970. E27001 is now preserved at the @sim_manchester

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EM2 27004 "Juno" at Manchester Piccadilly's Platform 1 in 1966. It will have brought a passenger service in from Sheffield Victoria, the stock would have departed back to Sheffield, and the loco is now running empty awaiting it's next duty. © Photographer unknown.

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Now preserved at the National Railway Museum. EM1 26020 is seen at Valehouse nr Hadfield in early 1972 working a westbound tank train. © Keith Sanders

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Newly opened Tinsley Yard nr Sheffield in 1965, and a rather rare shot of 26038 in the same picture of a Class 8F steam loco. © Stanley Creer

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A Steptoe and Son rag and bone man waits at the Dinting Lane level crossing as B1 61188 passes heading towards Glossop in around 1957. ©PU

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26016 is seen here approaching Penistone on the 30th October 1956, working a Sheffield Victoria to Manchester London Road service. LNER coaches with an articulated twin set. © IRS.

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Here's a nice picture to cool you down in this heatwave. Dunford East Box 4th January 1979. © Arnie Furniss.

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E26024 & E26021 cross over Torside level crossing in February 1970. The passenger service had finished the month earlier so the Woodhead route was mostly freight only, apart from weekend diversions. We've never heard of Victisan disinfectant before ? © Obsoulum

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EM1 26057 Ulysses, is seen departing Manchester Piccadilly for Sheffield Victoria in early 1968. Is this LMS coaching stock ?? © Colin Alexander.

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53 Years ago today was the last day of the Sheffield Victoria to Manchester Piccadilly via Woodhead electric passenger services. The last train arrived at Sheffield Victoria at 0043am on the 5th January 1970 which was an enthusiasts special. © K Long. P Braybrook. SN.

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Following the recent snow ❄️ we make no apologies for sharing these collections of pictures again from the 27th April 1981 at Dunford Bridge. Showing 76013 & 76026 on a westbound coal train just 3 months before closure of the line. © CPF.

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76006, is surrounded by tour participants at Penistone, during a photo stop on the LCGB Christmas Tommy Railtour, on the 30th December 1980. © Jjm2009

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January 1981, 6 months before closure, and a pair of class 76s head eastbound near Torside with a mixed freight. This section of line is now part of @TPT_National route. © David Rodgers.

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26054 Pluto heads east near Crowden, with a Manchester Piccadilly to Sheffield Victoria service just a week before the passenger service finished. 27th December 1969 © Robin Lush

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The final death of the Woodhead route, 47354 is seen heading towards Torside with a recovery train on the 31st of May 1987. © PJBRF

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40 YEARS AGO TODAY. The Woodhead Route was closed. 76006 & 76014 head the last electric service through Penistone shortly before 5 a.m. on the 18th of July 1981. The service was the late running Harwich to Edge Hill SpeedLink train. © Norman Daley.

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An electric hauld passenger service between the cities of Manchester and Sheffield (1954-1970) EM2 27003 (Diana) and her 7 coaches, travel over the Wicker Arches and into Sheffield Victoria Station, on the 1st May 1966. © David Russon.

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25257 & 25054 pass Rotherwood Sidings near Sheffield at the eastern end of the Woodhead Route. Whilst working the 0915 (SO) Great Yarmouth to Manchester Piccadilly service on the hot summer of 1976. © John Sydney Han.

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A date for the diary. Sunday 18th July, will mark 40 YEARS since the closure of the Woodhead Route. If you are out and about on that date, anywhere on the old route, please feel free to upload your pictures on here. Please share.

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14 years after closure this was the general state of Sheffield Victoria station, and signal box number 4 in 1984.

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The next train to depart platform 1 at Manchester Piccadilly on the 1st August 1967. Was the electric passenger service to Sheffield Victoria in the hands of EM2 E27006 " Pandora" © Tony Lambert.

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E26057 departs Penistone station with the 1602 to Manchester Piccadilly via the Woodhead Route. Passenger Services were withdrawn on the 4th of January 1970 by BR management, which was the start of the decline of the Woodhead Route. © PUN.

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Prototype " Falcon " at Sheffield Victoria station in June 1962 working the Sheffield Pullman service to London Kings Cross via Retford. © CBE

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Following the news of a planned new service from Sheffield to London Kings Cross via Retford. Here is D209 leaving Sheffield Victoria station in early 1959 with " The Master Cutler " heading to ....... London Kings Cross via Retford. © Kevin Smith.

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On a dull Saturday morning, 23rd April 1977, Springs Branch's (SP) 40090 is going well on the 1 in 117 climb near Crowden with its thirteen coach load of the LCGB Peak Commemorative Railtour. © John Marsh

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Penistone in the snow. Christmas 1980 © Sean Brown

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33 years ago today, 4th May 1986, and loco 37024 emerges from the "new" Woodhead tunnel for the very last time as track lifting had reached the tunnel entrance. © Normand1946

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Woodhead Tunnel: west portal during construction of new tunnel, 1953.

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76037 & 76039 bring a merry-go-round coal train through Dunford Bridge on the 15th of January 1981. Towards the end of the lines working life this was the mainstay of traffic. © David Rodgers

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A string of bells & a sign to warn lorry drivers of the overheads...76027 and 76014 at Glasshouse crossing near Barnsley...8th July 1980 © Colin Peter Whitbread

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On This Day.......... Woodhead/Woodhead Tunnel on the 3rd January 1970, the last weekend of the Sheffield Victoria to Manchester Piccadilly passenger services. © ee20213

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DC & AC at @NetworkRailMAN in June 1966. DC voltage 27005 " Minerva " stands in platform 4 having brought a train in from Sheffield Victoria via the Woodhead Route. Platforms 1-4 were allocated for DC traction until 1984 when the supply was switch the AC. © RPP.

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A 1930’s view of Woodhead Station taken from within the portal of the original bore. (D. Ibbotson)

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Reddish Depot, Manchester 1954-1983. Was home of the Woodhead electrics until closure of the route in July 1981. The depot has long been demolished, it will come as no surprise that the site it is now a new housing estate. © VPOTI

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Not going without a fight, the last convoy of class 76s heading for CF Booths scrapyard in Rotherham, was stopped at Sheffield Midland station on the 24/11/1983 due to 76043 having a slight axel box fire. © Roger5450

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76001 at Deepcar on a bitterly cold 26th February 1981, with a scrap iron train from Tinsley in 16T wagons. Notice the cow bells to warn high-sided lorries of the overhead wires. © Antony Guppy.

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A view from Nunnery carriage sidings. The DMU has just come up from Sheffield Midland. The class 76 has come through the closed Sheffield Victoria with a working from Dewsnap or Ardwick. © Roy Jackson.

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In the late 1970s the Woodhead Route became exceptionally popular on a Sunday for diversions. Here are some pictures from a Sunday in November 1978 from Penistone. © Roger5450

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Class 76 76038 at front with 76035 behind plus Manchester Glossop Hadfield car M59406M on right inside Reddish Shed taken 17/12/1978. Reddish closed in 1983 and the site is now a housing estate. © Ray Briscall.

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When Sheffield Midland transferred from semaphore signals/ signal boxes to the power signalling box in early 1973. All services were transferred across to Sheffield Victoria for the weekend despite the station been closed for 3 years. © Peter Fox

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A class 76 comes thought the Woodhead platforms at Penistone station on a damp day in 1977 with it's empty coal waggons. The canopies, and the main building for the Manchester platform were demolished in 1979, 9 years after the last passenger service © John Bentley.

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50 YEARS AGO TODAY. Saw the withdrawal of the electric passenger services between Sheffield Victoria and Manchester Piccadilly via Woodhead. Last Westbound service was 2215 with loco E26056 Triton. Last service arrived at Victoria at 0043am on the 05/01/1970 with E26054 Pluto

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76010 & 76012 pass Hadfield with a coal train in the summer of 1976. Today this is the end of the line from the Manchester direction. Beyond here is the @TPT_National to the Woodhead Tunnel. © Paul Jay.

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"Electrified" passenger services ended in January 1970. Two months later it seemed deeply ironic that diesel haulage was used for five special trains from Manchester to Sheffield (Hillsborough) for the FA Cup semi-final. Here is one of them passing Torside. ©Gavin Morrison

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Woodhead Tunnel, opened in 1954 and closed in 1981, just a working life of 27 years. Here's a collection of pictures taking just a few months before closure. ©Barefootgoth

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EM1 E26046 " Archimedes " is seen passing through Dunford Bridge on the 30th August 1969 with a Manchester Piccadilly to Sheffield Victoria passenger service. © Colin Alexander.

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Early 1950s British railways poster advertising the Woodhead Route.

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76025 & 76021 head towards Dunford Bridge on the 28th May 1981 with a mixed freight. The line had just shy of 2 months left before closure. © Adrian Freeman.

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Reddish Depot early 1983. The Woodhead route has been closed nearly 2 years, and the Class 76s are laid parked up awaiting their trip to CF Booths of Rotherham to be scrapped. The depot closed a few months after these pictures were taken, and is now a housing estate. © MS.

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Having brought in it's passenger train in from Manchester Piccadilly, EM2 27002 AURORA is seen at Sheffield Victoria in the summer of 1965. Notice the experimental rotary wipers. © Colin Alexander.

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54 YEARS AGO TODAY. 4th of January 1970, Sheffield Victoria Station. The very last Manchester Piccadilly bound passenger service was 1M26, the 2215, in the hands of 26056 "Triton" Today Sheffield Victoria station is a car park. © Keith Long

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The End, 54 Years Ago Today E26054 "Pluto", arrive at Sheffield Victoria at 0043am working the very last passenger service between Manchester Piccadilly and Sheffield Victoria on the 5th January 1970. © Sheffield Newspapers / Paul Braybrook. #Manchester #Sheffield

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An unidentified class 76 passes Oughty Bridge signal box on a Manchester Piccadilly to Sheffield Victoria passenger service. The date was Saturday 3rd January 1970 and the passenger service finish the following day. © Robert Anderson.

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Sheffield Victoria station early 1960s

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Manchester Piccadilly had the distinction of having overhead AC and DC voltage on adjacent platforms. It's August 1968 and the Class 76 is off to Sheffield Victoria and the Class 86 and the BR Mk. 1 coaches are off to the south. © eastbank

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Torside level crossing between Woodhead tunnel and Hadfield was an ideal spoting place for the Woodhead route. Here is a collection of pictures throughout the years, extra brownie points if you can name the road vehicles. © BR Railway Photos.

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Sheffield Victoria station and Number 4 signal box July 1984. 14 years after closure, the end is near. © Andrew Stringfellow.

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Manchester Piccadilly 31st October 1980. In view classes, 103, 506, 100 & 123. The Class 506 will be working a service to Hadfield and Glossop. Up until December 1984 platforms 1-4 were still energized on the Woodhead Route DC voltage. © Class 13 Army.

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A collection of pictures taken at various locations on the Woodhead Route in early 1981 just before closure. © Ken Livermore.

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With a large proportion of @LincolnCity_FC fans travelling to @swfc by public transport today. Here is the sign from the nearest railway station to Hillsborough taken in 1981. Sadly football specials finished in 1996.

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Glossop railway station 1967. A Class 506 on a Manchester Piccadilly to Hadfield local service calls at the station. Today the platform is only used on the left hand side, and this section is now a supermarket. © Geoffrey Skelsey.

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40 years ago Today. 17th June 1981. Due to a points failure the Huddersfield to Sheffield Midland passenger service which went through the closed Sheffield Victoria was terminated there. These incredible pictures show passengers being escorted through the ruins of the station.

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E26017 at Bullhouse nr Penistone, working a Sheffield Victoria to Manchester Piccadilly passenger service on the 02/01/1970 2 days before withdrawal of the services. © Antony Guppy.

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Sheffield Victoria on the 21st December 1969 a few weeks before closure and withdrawal of the electric passenger service to Manchester Piccadilly. © Michael Whitchurch.

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Guide Bridge, 17th November 1981...soon after the Woodhead route closed. The class 506’s were still running to Hadfield and Glossop. © Gary Thornton.

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Class 506 unit 59402, 59502 and 59602 at Dinting Lane level crossing on a Manchester Piccadilly to Hadfield service, on the 28th Nov 1984. The track to the left went to the old Dinting Railway Centre. © Mark Jobling.

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1500 d.c. Class EM2 (77) No.27003 exiting the western portal of the Woodhead Tunnel in 1954. 27 years late the Woodhead Route was closed. © atlantic.

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76021 & 76026 at Thurstone nr Penistone on the 7th April 1979, with the Pennine Rambler Railtour. This section of line is now part of @TPT_National © VarleyRoger2000

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