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Abbeydale Road South, SHEFFIELD, S17 3LB

Below Ladies' Spring Wood holding water to be diverted down the mill race and into the mill pond for the Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet.

On this day CrossCountry managed to run their services well between Edinburgh and Penzance when East Midlands struggled between London and Sheffield

The weir on the Sheaf for the millpond at Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet.

Since pre-Norman times this was a border, at one time between Mercia to the left and Northumbria to the right. Until 1934 Derbyshire and the Province of Canterbury was to the left, Yorkshire and the Province of York to the right. Now it's all part of South Yorkshire and the Province of York. The bed of the brook is discoloured a rusty red after bog iron, or ferric hydroxide, flooded down the valley in February, colouring the River Sheaf a long way downstream with an alarming muddy orange hue.

This light engine was running early because the East Midlands Liverpool - Norwich train it should have followed along the Hope Valley was almost an hour late! Waiting for a service on the Midland mainline to clear Dore Station Junction before heading north through Sheffield. The section through Dore & Totley station was singled in 1985 and the remaining platform (from previous 4) shortened from the position of the signals. Plans to redouble this section and lengthen the platform again go back to at least 2005. The Hope Valley Caapcity Improvement Scheme set out plans to do that by the end of 2018. The latest update pushed that back to 2023. Now, who knows!

Beside Dore & Totley railway station. Both currently closed during the coronavirus crisis.

From Dore & Totley station this Friday the answer was clearly - No! Reverse marketing at present. Keep off the trains. For years users have complained that trains are too short, are far too often late, and that there's no space in the car park! In recent weeks the trains have been longer. Now they're carrying very few passengers and are keeping far more closely to time. We long for the days when we had overcrowded trains and no space to get parked. Will they ever return? Coronavirus may have hastened the uptake of home working, and probably rendering many rail capacity calculations out of date.