Hadfield station, 1996
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Hadfield station, 1996
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 13 Jul 1996
View NE, towards the buffer-stops, but formerly the main line via the Woodhead Tunnel to Penistone, Sheffield etc.: ex-GCR Manchester - Sheffield trunk trans-Pennine route, electrified through the New Woodhead Tunnel from 6/54, then after a mere 15 years prematurely abandoned for passenger traffic on 5/1/70 and for freight from 18/7/81. Since 1970 Hadfield has been the terminus of merely a suburban electric service from Manchester Piccadilly, the trains going in and out of Glossop on the way.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.460653
Longitude
-1.965772