Hallam Line - Route Details

Route Details

Trains on the line serve the following places; some stations may no longer be open:

• Leeds railway station: in MR days trains would have operated from Wellington station. Here there is a triangular junction with the line to Bradford. The line from here to Castleford is also served by Pontefract Line services.
• Hunslet (Closed)
• here was the junction with the East & West Yorkshire Union Railway (MidR/Great Northern Railway (GNR) joint: it was a direct connection to Wakefield via Rothwell
• Woodlesford
• Methley: station closed
• between here and Castleford there were several junctions: with the Methley Joint Railway (GNR/L&YR/North Eastern Railway (NER); with the NER line Leeds to York; and with the Swinton & Knottingley Railway to Pontefract
• Either goes to a branch towards Castleford where it then reverses towards Normanton which stopping trains use or alternatively goes a more direct route bypassing Castleford and past the former Altofts railway station which closed in the 1980s towards Normanton station that Leeds - Sheffield fast trains use.
• Normanton
• here the MidR main line to Sheffield branched off: our route now uses the L&YR metals
• Wakefield Kirkgate (Also served by the Pontefract and Huddersfield Lines)
• Sandal, closed. Not to be confused with Sandal and Agbrigg on the Doncaster to Leeds via Wakefield Westgate line.
• Horbury Junction (closed) for the L&YR main line to Manchester
• Crigglestone (Closed)
• here is Woolley Tunnel 1745 yd (1570 m)
• Haigh (Closed)
• Darton
• here was Silkstone Junction for the freight line to Silkstone.
• Barnsley: formerly Barnsley Exchange, traffic arrived not only from Leeds but via the Great Central Railway line from Penistone. This is nowadays known as the Penistone Line.

Stations from here to Sheffield are also on the Penistone Line:

• Swaithe Viaduct - carries the line over the Worsborough Branch of the Great Central.
• Wombwell
• Elsecar was Elsecar & Hoyland
• Wentworth - also known as Wentworth & Hoyland Common and Wentworth & Tankersley. (Closed)
• Chapeltown: formerly Chapeltown South to distinguish from Chapeltown Central on the former South Yorkshire Railway, later G.C.R. line. Chapeltown station was rebuilt nearer to the town centre roundabout in the 1970s as the first railway project of the, then, new South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Authority. Much of the original remains.

From here the two railways - MidR and GCR had parallel lines to Sheffield. The latter line is closed and lifted.

• Ecclesfield - known as Ecclesfield West to distinguish from Ecclesfield East on the former South Yorkshire Railway, later G.C.R. line. (Closed)
• Meadowhall:, partly built on the site of Wincobank and Meadow Hall
• Brightside (Closed)
• Attercliffe Road (Closed)
• Sheffield Midland station (Also served by the Wakefield and Dearne Valley Lines)