Managed by Northern 2011/12 27,578 Number of platforms 2 Station code WDH | Grid reference SK428854 DfT category F2 2012/13 29,192 | |
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Address Sheffield S13 9WQ, United Kingdom Similar Kiveton Bridge railway st, Darnall railway station, Rotherham Central railway st, Gainsborough Lea Road railway st, Saxilby railway station | ||
Woodhouse railway station, is a railway station serving Woodhouse and Woodhouse Mill in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. The station is 5.25 miles (8 km) east of Sheffield station on the Sheffield to Lincoln Line.
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The next station east was Waleswood, until its closure in 1955, and is now Kiveton Park. The next station west is Darnall. Beighton railway station, originally adjacent to the junction with the Midland Railway, but rebuilt by the MS&LR when it began work on its "Derbyshire Lines", was until 1954 the next station south.
Woodhouse Mill, Orgreave and Fence were served by a station on the North Midland Railway named Woodhouse Mill.
From 1955 until removal in 1981, the Barnsley Junction-Rotherwood segment of the Manchester – Sheffield – Wath electrification terminated slightly west of the Woodhouse station platforms, within sight of the station.
History
The present station is the second built to serve the community of Woodhouse, then separate from and not under the governance of Sheffield. The railway line between Sheffield and Gainsborough was proposed by the Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction Railway (S&LJR); upon authorisation of this line in August 1846, the S&LJR amalgamated with other railways to form the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (MS&LR).
The first section of the S&LJR line, between Sheffield and Beighton (on the Midland Railway) opened on 12 February 1849; the second section, which left the first near Woodhouse and ran to Gainsborough, opened on 17 July 1849. A station at the junction was opened by the MS&LR in October 1850, named Woodhouse Junction.
The original station was at the bottom of Junction Lane, adjacent to the present Woodhouse Junction, formerly East Junction, signal box and was built to serve the communities of Beighton, then within Derbyshire, and Woodhouse. This station was closed on 11 October 1875 and replaced on the same day by a new station 700 yards (640 m) to the west, named Woodhouse. The new station was one of the earliest examples of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway's Double Pavilion designs at its present location.
Platforms
The current station has three platforms, two through and one terminus for trains travelling into Woodhouse westbound. However, since the privatisation of British Rail, only through trains stop at the station, so only two platforms are used. The old terminus (third) platform is currently usable, however overgrown. It is rarely used by the odd freight locomotive reversing.
Colliery lines
Woodhouse was the hub of two colliery branches: to the west a branch to Orgreave Colliery, which was extended to reach Treeton Colliery under the MS&LR (Extension to London) Act 1893 and opened on 10 October 1898, and, to the east, from Woodhouse East Junction, the Birley Branch, which served the Birley Collieries, belonging to the Sheffield Coal Company.
Services
Northern operates an hourly westbound service to Sheffield, Doncaster, Adwick and Leeds and an hourly eastbound service to Worksop, Retford and Lincoln.
A limited service runs on Sundays.
Woodhouse is also served by the irregular Saturday-only service, 3 services each way, linking Sheffield and Cleethorpes via Brigg.