The Fall And Rise if Dore And Totley
via Bradway Tunnel.
1872 Dore and Totley opens
1963 ??? Main line platfroms closed
1894 The Hope Valley line opens
(triangular junction)
1901 Four tracks Dore to Sheffield
1902 Four platforms at
Dore and Totley
1969 Station became an
instaffed halt
1971 Renamed Dure
1983 Main Line platforms demolished
1985 Station & junction reducd
1985 Station & junction reducd
to single track
2008 Station re-renamed
Dore and Totley
For a good few years the stopping service via the Hope Valley welcomed the dreaded Pacer.
At least, by then, the service did run through to Manchester. With the closure of the Woodhead line in 1981, an hourly fast service ran to Manchester and many local trains ran between Sheffield and Chinley or New Mills only.
But let us roll on to today's service. There are now two "fast" trains an hour via the Hope Valley.
Trans Pennine : Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield, Doncaster, Cleethorpes.
Occasional commuter time trains call at Dore and Totley ...
... as shown on the map and in the timetable.
East Midlands Railway : Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield, Nottingham, Norwich
Occasional commuter trains call at Dore and Totley ...
... and are shown on the timetable but NOT on the route diagram!
Fortunately for said commuters into Sheffield, Northern Trains ...
... offers a composite timetable and better trains for their own schedules.
There is a slightly less understandable map!
But whoever is in charge of the UK's trains this week wants to be able to run THREE fast trains an hour via the Hope Valley - or they did before Covid.
So an umpteen zillion scheme is afoot (nearly complete!) to double the track through Dore and Totley.
Here is the section as was ...
... and here as planned.
There are pictures of the work on the track in progress ...
... nearly complete ...
... and the super whizzo lift-equipped footbridge.
It should all be very splendid.
Outside of this major change, fbb should point out some other improvements.
Protection from the weather was very very minimalist at de-staffed Dore and Totley, being a rather useless wooden hut.
But a stunning improvement has been a lavish (?) platform canopy ...
Maty recognised the GARDENER (eventually) as the Risen Jesus. Unbelievable? Of course it is unbelievable if you limit your thinking to the restricted human world. But we are dealing with God whose abilities and technology are infinitely superior to those of man. With God all things are possible.
... affixed to the station building.
From being boarded up and very closed, the building has become a smart eatery ...
... with a fairly unpronounceable name.
It has a limited main course menu ...
... which looks colourfully attractive! Yummy yummy!
But this little station has one more surprise. Thanks to the finances from Travel South Yorkshire, the station has a small Park and Ride facility ...
... which looked full when Streetview ambled past.
Dore and Totley is rapidly developing into a sophisticated small station! It would be good if the proposed third fast train per hour were to stop there. The stoppers do not make for an attractive route to Manchester.
Tomorrow we go to Glasgow.
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So when Jesus appears to his unbelieving ...
... a locked door is, of course, no problem.
He inspires them and tells tem to go out and tell others that the Good News of forgiveness of sin is indeed the answer. They are beginning t understand .,.
Truth!!
... at last!
Clue : mail or employment opportunity.
Meanwhile, on the road to Emmaus ...
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Ride Over The Clyde blog : Thurs 4th April
The 'new' station is a big improvement and has been very nicely implemented in Midland Railway colours; pity the lifts aren't yet working, but they should be soon. Unfortunately, there is no immediate prospect of 3 fast trains per hour (or 4 as originally envisaged) due to Manchester Piccadilly being unable to accommodate them, until new through platforms are built there it seems - a distant prospect. The main gain is better reliability of the timetable, with trains in one direction no longer liable to hold up those in the opposite direction, and less likelihood of slow goods trains impeding passenger services along the Hope Valley.
ReplyDeleteThe Chesterfield line platforms at D and T closed in January 1967 when the Sheffield-Derby and Nottingham local servcie was withdrawn.
ReplyDelete"...with a fairly unpronounceable name" - you share reams of untranslated French every fourth blog but a simple name you deem problematic because it's... Asian? Is that a bit too foreign?
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