Date: 01/08/2023

A railway group hopes to create a museum that celebrates a line that linked Manchester and Sheffield.

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Woodhead line: Museum to celebrate Manchester-Sheffield rail link

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A railway group hopes to create a museum that celebrates a line that linked Manchester and Sheffield.

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On a fine July evening in 1981 nos 76031+76035 pass Dunford Bridge signal box with the Manchester to Harwich Parkeston Quay ferry vans, having just emerged from Woodhead Tunnel. Both locomotives were withdrawn later that month.
Location: Dunford Bridge
Company: Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway
16/07/1981 Bill Jamieson

View from the staggered westbound platform at the closed Woodhead Station on 15 August 1979 as 76034+76031 emerge from Woodhead tunnel with a Trans - Pennine coal train.
Location: Woodhead
Company: Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway
15/08/1979 Peter Todd

View east along the platforms towards Sheffield and the 1954 tunnel at the former Woodhead station on 24 May. The lorry is heading for Manchester on the winding A628 road.
Location: Woodhead
Company: Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway
24/05/2008 John McIntyre

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