National Grid's Plans to use the Woodhead Tunnel
 The Woodhead Tunnel, vital for a re-opened freight service or new
passenger services on the rail line between Sheffield and Manchester,
faces permanent closure to trains due to an impending decision by the
National Grid to use the tunnel for cabling.
Obviously this means freight will remain on the road and much needed
passenger connections between Glossop, Penistone, and Sheffield could
never happen - bad for the environment and damaging the hopes of
opposing the Mottram Tintwistle bypass.
Please e-mail
woodheadtunnel@gmail.com if you will be attending or if you
have any questions.
For more information about the meeting and things you can do to help,
visit the campaign website:
http://savethewoodheadtunnel.blogspot.com/ |
Wortley
   Wortley
(Sheffield) (03-12-12) : Adrian Smith
1888. Now the TransPenine Cycle Route and Upper Don Trail, south of
Thurgoland tunnel.
There's a well-paved trod most of the way down from Wortley (St Leonards
church) and access from the trail car park off Finkle Street, behind
Cote Green stables. |
Woodhead
 Woodhead : Bernard Coomber
A Manchester E.M.U. heads for Glossop on the Woodhead line. circa summer
of '65. |
 Woodhead : Bernard Coomber
A mixed freight at Dunford Bridge about to enter Woodhead tunnel
Manchester bound_ circa summer of '65. |
 Woodhead : Bernard Coomber
Class EM2 Electric Co-co locomotive at Guide Bridge.
NOTE: Martin Speck (Technician BR S&T Dept
Sheffield No2 division 1970s)
The photo does in fact show an EM1 Bo-Bo, not an EM2 Co-Co. See the
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_76 web page for details
of the numbers assigned to the EM1s (E26XXX). |
 Woodhead
(c1980s) : David Webdale
Guide Bridge. |
 Woodhead
(c1980s) : David Webdale
Guide Bridge. This building long gone now. |
 Woodhead
(c1980s) : David Webdale
Guide Bridge. |
Woodhead (c1980s) : David Webdale
Not sure where this is, somewhere near Guide Bridge.
Note : John Barraclough
 Just
a clarification on this image. The location is in fact Dinting taken from
the pedestrian bridge over the Glossop branch at Dinting Lane and facing
approximately west. Dinting Station is around the curve to the right. The
gated line to the left was into Dinting Railway Centre, long gone and
overgrown.
This picture shows the same location during the time when the centre was
still open -
http://pjbrailwayphotos.piwigo.com/picture?/19625/category/31-dinting_railway_centre_glossop_in_the_1980s |
 Woodhead : Bernard Coomber
Class EM2 Electric Co-co locomotive heading for Manchester with coal
from South Yorkshire,
Woodhead line circa summer of '65.
NOTE: Martin Speck (Technician BR S&T Dept
Sheffield No2 division 1970s)
Shows another loco with leaf springs so it must be a class EM1. |
 Woodhead : Bernard Coomber
Class EM2 Electric Co-co locomotive in the Longdendale valley with a
Sheffield to Manchester express passenger,
Woodhead line circa summer of '65.
NOTE: Martin Speck
Shows a loco with leaf springs so it must be an EM1 rather than an EM2.
Although the EM1 was used mostly on freight trains they were used on
passenger trains as well. |
 Woodhead : Bernard Coomber
Class EM2 Electric Co-co locomotive passing Dinting with a coal train
for Lancashire,
Woodhead line circa summer of '65.
NOTE: Martin Speck
Also shows an EM1. If you look at the many images on the web you will
see that EM1s have two pairs of coiled springs above each driving wheel.
This loco has a single leaf spring on the chassis which means it must be
an EM1. (This is a useful way of telling the two class apart if you
can't see if the loco is a Co-Co (EM2) or a Bo-Bo (EM1). You will find a
very good picture of the coiled springs used on EM2s on the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_77
web page. The National Railway museum have painted the springs white so
they really stand out in one picture. |
 Woodhead : Bernard Coomber
Dunford Bridge on the Woodhead line, with a Manchester bound passenger
express having just left Woodhead tunnel. |
 Woodhead
: Mark Damon Heeley
Sign recovered from Dunford Bridge summer 1988 sold 2007. (see above
photo). |
