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| Attercliffe Road | |
| Location | |
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| Place | Attercliffe, South Yorkshire |
| Area | City of Sheffield |
| Operations | |
| Pre-grouping | Midland Railway |
| Post-grouping | LMSR London Midland Region of British Railways |
| Platforms | 2 |
| History | |
| 1870 | Opened |
| 1993 | Closed |
| Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom | |
| Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D-F G H-J K-L M-O P-R S T-V W-Z |
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This article describes the Midland Railway station in Attercliffe. For the Great Central Railway station see Attercliffe railway station.
Attercliffe Road railway station was a railway station in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. The station served the communities of Attercliffe, Burngreave and workers in the Don Valley and was situated on the Midland Main Line near Attercliffe Road in Attercliffe, lying between Sheffield railway station and Brightside railway station.
History
The station was opened at the same time as the main line from Chesterfield was opened in 1870 and had 2 platforms. The station was positioned above Effingham Street, although access was from a gated path from Leveson Street; an underpass led to an inclining bridge onto the Down platforms.
Opened by the Midland Railway, it became part of the London Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways upon nationalisation in 1948.
When sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Regional Railways in co-operation with the South Yorkshire PTE until the privatisation of British Rail.
By the 1980s only certain morning and evening peak trains called at the station, as stopping trains 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 where closure was easily justified, again with line capacity constraints being quoted as the reason, with the end coming in 1993.
Little is left of the station but the platforms which can be seen from moving trains. The underpass is blocked by overgrown foliage although the gated entrance can still be seen from Leveson Street just by the bridge over the River Don.
External links
| Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
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| Sheffield Midland | London Midland Region of British Railways Midland Railway |
Brightside | ||
References
- Butt, R.V.J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present, 1st Edition, Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.
- Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas, 1st, Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687.
- Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day, 1st, Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137.
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