I am doing a bit of research on the area around worksop road, and have seen an online article stating there was a railway station near Worksop Road. It also says that the rotherham bound platform is still accesable and there was once a subway under the railway. it says this is bricked up but can be still seen adjacent to worksop road. Does anyone know where this subway is or how you access if you can the platform still there.

Attercliffe station is elevated on a bridge/viaduct, so not sure what you mean about a subway

have you looked to see if there are any pics on picturesheffield.com?

PS there's a website about disused stations (who's name escapes me, but I'm sure somebody else will know) which may have a page for this station

Apparently there is 2 stations in attercliffe one near Norfolk bridge this is on a bridge but is says there was one near worksop road. Tried picture sheffield got the info from wilkpedia I think it is

is that 'brightside' then?

Have a look at this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attercliffe_railway_station

I've just been looking at the map and aerial photo's for Worksop Road on google maps

the railway line doesn't run across that road, but the tram which runs on old rail tracks does :thumbsup:

Just read your link

it's a bit short on info and somewhat badly written :? (had to read one bit 3 times)

had another look and I know worksop road but cant see any path to a platform and dont know of anything bricked up near the towpath

Apparently there is 2 stations in attercliffe one near Norfolk bridge this is on a bridge.

The station adjacent to Norfolk Bridge was known as Attercliffe Road - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attercliffe_Road_railway_station

Brightside Station was on the same line, just before Meadowhall.

Hillsbro you dont know where the Attercliffe station is on the link in my earlier post

Hi - I'm sorry, but I don't remember Attercliffe station at all as it closed before my time. It should be possible to find it on old maps; I have a 1912 Ordnance Survey map at "home" in Wadsley - if you like I can have a look when I am there at the weekend.

Here's a bit of nostalgia: http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/twigmore/1954timetable.jpg

Look at the 7-10 and 8-3 trains, and some of the long-gone stations that they served. From a 1954 timetable.

well this is supposed to be Attercliffe station, but there's nothing in that to place it
http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/picturesheffield.pl?_cgifunction=form&_layout=picturesheffield&keyval=sheff.refno=s14767

bother - Attercliffe isn't on this list:
http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/

I have had a look at the picture on picture sheffield and I wonder if this Attercliffe Road station norfolk bridge

well this is supposed to be Attercliffe station, but there's nothing in that to place it
http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/picturesheffield.pl?_cgifunction=form&_layout=picturesheffield&keyval=sheff.refno=s14767

This must be the right station as it doesn't look to me like Atterclffe Road, and the caption mentions the Great Central Railway (this developed from the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway - mentioned in the Wikipedia article on Attercliffe Staion). Attercliffe Road station was on the Midland Railway. Being between Woodbourn Junction and Tinsley, Attercliffe Station was on the line (now freight only) which the Supertram runs alongside on the way to Meadowhall. Looking at the "multimap" aerial photo, the station was probably near the point at which the Supertram line and the old Great Central line join. Anyway an old large-scale map should confirm this or give the true location.

but what's that bridge past the end of the platform?

but what's that bridge past the end of the platform?

Looking again at the "multimap" photo, it might be the bridge carrying Shirland Lane over the railway. If so, then the canal would be to the left of the photo, with the line crossing the canal between the station and the bridge.

Mrs hillsbro just reminded me that I ought to go to Sheffield tomorrow (our bungalow there is for sale) and so I should be able to look at my 1912 map, and any other maps that might be lurking in my "archives". I also have a "Bacon's Town Plan" of about 1914 but I'm not sure if it goes as far out as Worksop Road - anyway we'll see.

Attercliffe Road station was on the Midland Railway.

Attercliffe station was on the Great Central Railway

I think the latter station was approx. where the x is on the following link:

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=53.393594&lon=-1.425329&z=18&r=0&src=msl

All my old maps are in the loft (Mrs Grinder has just informed me :( )

Looking again at the "multimap" photo, it might be the bridge carrying Shirland Lane over the railway. If so, then the canal would be to the left of the photo, with the line crossing the canal between the station and the bridge.That seems to work. It looks like the original structures may have been replaced when the line became supertram though - looking at the colour of that concrete

I'm just going to have a look for the map thread we had on this part of the forum a while back - I'll dig it up so you can add to it if you're posting new map info :thumbsup:

Attercliffe station was on the Great Central Railway

I think the latter station was approx. where the x is on the following link:

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=53.393594&lon=-1.425329&z=18&r=0&src=msl

Correct - the station approach was on Chippingham street opposite the end of Beall street.

In your link the tram is where the platform would have been on the north-west side of the line.

Looking at the picture aswell it certanly looks like the shirland lane bridge, but I have tonight had another look when driving past cant see this subway entrance or the entrance to the old platform as mentioned on my link , if anyone whos how to contact Stephen Gay he is a big railway entuiast and sure he will know.

I have had another look at the picture showing the tram and now I think about it there is some old buildings on there that have old sypte signs on them so I think the station was proerly behind these. I will have a look in the day light tommorow. But as I said earlier I def cannot recall seeing a blocked uosub way does anyone know where this is? sorry to keep going on its just bugging me!!

here's a map which confirms the location anyway:
http://www.gleadless.net/images/maps/1890sh.jpg

And from the large scale 1905 OS map

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v216/Taidi/Attercliffe29501.jpg

With the situation of the canal and the line I can't see there was either need or room for a subway.

so, it isn't that far at all from where the Attercliffe tram stop is, at all! :D excellent!

I'd have thought they were one and the same PT

Greybeard - are those two squiggles under the station buildings indications of some sort of access?

I think they're some kind of datum marks used by the surveyors.

Attercliffe tram stop is further back towards town - the other side of Shirland lane

so the platforms we can see in the aerial pics are the train station then? not another tram stop?

I can't see any platforms in the aerial image :confused:

oh maybe you're right

maybe the light broad line I can see is the bridge parapet and the angle it's taken from?

Here's a "bird's eye view": http://www.multimap.com/maps/?hloc=GB|sheffield#map=53.39326,-1.42528|20|256&be=7700310|West&loc=GB:53.38308:-1.46487:14|sheffield|Sheffield,%20Norton,%20South% 20Yorkshire,%20England,%20S1%202 Click on the curved arrows at left and right to rotate. There seems to be no trace of the station left; I might have an old photo of the station if I have a good rummage in the loft...

I'd have thought they were one and the same PT

Greybeard - are those two squiggles under the station buildings indications of some sort of access?

I'm not sure, strix, I know the steelworks' railway line runs pretty much parallel to/ just behind the Attercliffe Tram stop.

I don't remember that section of Chippenham Street, as my aunt lived on the close (Chippenham close? place?) at the side of Banners, beside the old chapel that became a carpet warehouse thing. We didn't tend to go up that road any further than my Aunts' house

Here's a "bird's eye view": http://www.multimap.com/maps/?hloc=GB|sheffield#map=53.39326,-1.42528|20|256&be=7700310|West&loc=GB:53.38308:-1.46487:14|sheffield|Sheffield,%20Norton,%20South% 20Yorkshire,%20England,%20S1%202 Click on the curved arrows at left and right to rotate. There seems to be no trace of the station left; I might have an old photo of the station if I have a good rummage in the loft...

That's a much better view. Any remaining evidence of the old station will have been obliterated by the supertram permanent way, but the high retaining walls alongside the canal would have been part of it.

The station forecourt would have been where all the wagons are parked in that factory/warehouse yard. I've put up a slightly wider map view of the area (1905) which shows the curved pedestrian ramp up to the platform from the forecourt.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v216/Taidi/Station.jpg

I'm not sure, strix, I know the steelworks' railway line runs pretty much parallel to/ just behind the Attercliffe Tram stop.

I don't remember that section of Chippenham Street, as my aunt lived on the close (Chippenham close? place?) at the side of Banners, beside the old chapel that became a carpet warehouse thing. We didn't tend to go up that road any further than my Aunts' house


It was Chippingham place (or Chippen'am if you were reight Sheffield :D)

Attercliffe tram stop is approximately where Baltic street joined Chippingham street, but the old LNER track there is on the other side of the canal.

It must now look very different to when you were a child. I remember some of it from the 50s when i used to visit a school-mate who lived on Woodbourne road; there was still freight on the canal in those days.

It was Chippingham place (or Chippen'am if you were reight Sheffield :D)

Attercliffe tram stop is approximately where Baltic street joined Chippingham street, but the old LNER track there is on the other side of the canal.

It must now look very different to when you were a child. I remember some of it from the 50s when i used to visit a school-mate who lived on Woodbourne road; there was still freight on the canal in those days.

ahhh, greybeard, Attercliffe all looks so different from even my own childhood, which was only forty-some years ago.

I obviously can't remember Attercliffe Station itself, as it was decimated even before that darling Doctor Beeching got his hands on our magnificent rail network. but Attercliffe itself was, on the whole, a very happy and familiar place for me.

If we got the bus to Staniforth road, to call in to Banners, we'd trek all along Attercliffe Rd/ Common with all the shops lining the street, me fixing my eyes on the pinnacle of Carbrook school, knowing that, there, just beyond the school, lay my Grandpa's house.

We'd go past the cinema (was it the pavillion or the palace?) which by that time had the posters for the "bollywood" films outside rather than the Trevor Howard classics, al the way along past terry street and the "rec" to turn onto Carltonville Road to my grandpa's.

My aunts' house was on Chip' Place in the (I think) sole yard that was on the side by the former church, in the old terraced housing that used to be there. (as I said, by the 60's, it was being used as a carpet warehouse.)

Woodhouse library used to have a great book on the old railway stations of Sheffield, but I guess they got rid long ago.

not necessarily alch - history is going though a renaissance at the moment :)

It's probably worth requesting it on an interbranch loan if it's still in existance

bother

I can't get any results using this:
http://hip.sheffield.gov.uk/

so unless I'm doing something wrong...

There is a photo of the station on Picture Sheffield

http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/picturesheffield.pl?_cgifunction=form&_layout=picturesheffield&keyval=sheff.refno=s14767

..says it's looking south, so the bridge in the distance would be carrying Shirland lane.

Hi everyone

Here's a picture I took earlier this year from Shirland Lane Bridge. I've indicated on it the site of Attercliffe Station.

http://flickr.com/photos/cyberbia/2908417038/

(Just move you mouse cursor onto the picture and a box will appear, highlighting the site. Click on the "All Sizes" button and that will also allow you to open a larger size copy of the picture).

Patrick

Attercliffe station is still partly visible if you take a walk up Shirland lane from Attercliffe road go over canal keep going and you will go over railway bridge then you will see the fox house hotel go down the path just before the pub it will take you to the canal bank and between there and the viaduct look to your left and that is the remains of Attercliffe station.

I've just posted another picture onto Flickr dot Com of where Attercliffe Station was. It's looking from the footbridge on Shirland Lane over the railway line.

The website address is: www.flickr.com/photos/cyberbia/4296707151

The station was just the other side of the bridge in the middle of this picture.

There used to be a station at broughton lane bridge many years ago.

i remember my mum saying u aproached the station on worksop rd .up the side of the canal. my dad used to live round there