Sheffield station

Sheffield Midland
General information
Location	Sheffield
Managed by	Midland Mainline
Platforms	9
History
Opened	1870
Key dates
1905	Extension
1956	Rooftop removed
1973	Power signal bow built

Sheffield Midland station, now called simply Sheffield, is the railway station in central Sheffield, in Yorkshire, northern England.

Sheffield is at the northern end of the core Midland Main Line route via Derby (or Nottingham) and Leicester to London St Pancras, which this year will become the home of Eurostar international services. Direct services are also available to Leeds, the North East, North West, and East coast via Virgin Trains, Central Trains, Northern Rail and TransPennine Express.

The station is on the Sheffield Supertram network, and is linked to the city's bus station by a short covered walkway. A major revamp of the station approach is now complete.

History

Sheffield station seen from the north

The station was opened in 1870 by the Midland Railway and was the fifth and last station to be built in Sheffield's city centre. The station was built on the "New Line" which ran between Grimesthorpe Junction, on the former Sheffield and Rotherham Railway, and Tapton Junction, just north of Chesterfield.This new line replaced the previous route to London, which ran from Sheffield Wicker Station via Rotherham (Masborough).

The station opened on a damp and cold day without any celebrations. Originally there were different entrances for passengers of different classes. The then station buildings are what we see standing on the island platforms 2 to 5. Pond Street goods depot opened at the same time.

The station was given two extra platforms and a new frontage in 1905 at a cost of £215,000. The enlargements consisted of creating an island platform out of the old platform 1 and building a new platform 1 as well as a new entrance.

Offices were built at the north end of the 300 feet long carriage way rooftop. A large parcels office was built to the south of the main buildings. Two footbridges connected to the platforms, the one to the north for passengers, the one to the south for station staff and parcels employees. The tracks were covered by two train sheds or rooftops. One spanned platforms 5 and 6, the second platforms 1 and 2. The rooftops were removed in the autumn of 1956, and replaced by low-level awnings.

The 1960s saw the introduction of the Class 45 and Class 46 diesel-electric engines, known as Peaks. Sheaf House, adjacent to the station was built to house British Rail's Sheffield Division headquarters. As part of the reconstruction of the area as the "Gateway to Sheffield" it was demolished in early 2006. In 1972 the station was resignalled and its track layout remodelled. In 1984 British Rail introduced the High Speed Train to Sheffield to serve on the Midland Main Line. The Cross Country services had seen the introduction of the HSTs in 1982.

Sheffield station under repair

In 2002, Midland Mainline, as station managers, commenced a major re-generation work including a new footbridge to link with the Supertram stop, new platform surfaces, a revamped passenger hall with new shops, ticketing facilities and destination boards, and the remodelling of Sheaf Square, outside the station, to incorporate a new large open pedestrian space, water features and sandblasting of the station front. Before the start of the work in Sheaf Square, archaeologists and researchers were allowed to dig to study the remains of Bamford Dam.

Most of the work is now complete; however, vacant land opposite Sheaf Square is still to be allocated to developers for major hotel and office developments, and construction of the new platform canopy for platform 2C is yet to start.

Station layout

Plan of Sheffield Midland Station. Key.

The station presently has 9 platforms, numbered 1 to 8 and "2C" together with through roads which can be used for through running or more usually for stabling stock. Between platforms 5 and 6 these are known as "1-Up" and "2-Up" (they are on the "Up" or London-bound side of the station) whilst between platforms 1 and 2 can be found the "through road" with a direct path through the station or by a central crossover to the north end of platform 1 (1b) and "Down Station Siding". In a normal days work local services run by Northern use platforms 1a / 1b, 3 and 4, whilst terminating trains of Midland Mainline normally use Platform 5. Midland Mainline services passing through and Cross Country services use platform 2 for northbound and platform 6 for southbound departures. Central Trains services on the Norwich-Liverpool axis use 2, 5 or 7, TransPennine Express use platform 1b eastbound and platform 8 westbound leaving platform 2c for the use of the Sheffield-Manchester local trains.

Prior to the 1972 resignalling, the northern half of the current platform 8 was called platform 9. Trains from the north using platform 8 could avoid trains stood at platform 9 via an additional through road.

More services from Sheffield are also planned, offering more trains per hour at peak times and extra carriages.

• File:The new facilities at Sheffield Station:
• 
  Sheffield Station destination boards on platform 5.
• 
  Sheffield Station concourse.

See also

• Sheffield Wicker railway station
• Sheffield Victoria Station

External links

• Station history

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