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Ladies Spring Drive, SHEFFIELD, S17 3LQ

An Anglo-Indian restaurant in Dore Station, Abbeydale Road South.

This locomotive is heading for the Hope Valley line as it departs from Dore and Totley station on a sunny June day in 1962. According to BR steam records, she was cut up for scrap by Cashmore's of Great Bridge in May 1967.

Dore and Totley railway station serves the south-western suburbs of Dore and Totley approximately 4¾ south west of Sheffield city centre. The station is served by the Northern service between Sheffield and Manchester, East Midlands Railway service from Liverpool to Norwich and the TransPennine Express service between Manchester and Cleethorpes, all three running via the Hope Valley Line. The station was opened by the Midland Railway in 1872 as Dore and Totley on the Midland Main Line extension from Chesterfield to Sheffield. In 1894, the station became the junction for the new Dore and Chinley line (now the Hope Valley Line). Following the Beeching cuts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeching_cuts ) in the 1960s which saw neighbouring Beauchief, Millhouses and Heeley stations all close, Dore and Totley became south Sheffield's only remaining station. The station is unstaffed with a self-service ticket machine available. The old station buildings are now in private commercial use as a restaurant. A small brick waiting shelter is provided at the northern end of the platform, along with passenger information displays, automatic announcements and timetable poster boards to offer train running information. Step-free access is available from the adjacent car park to the platform.

Preparing to lay a new second track through Dore & Totley Station, then to build a new second platform with footbridge. The tree on the left is about to go, and the one further down the platform has almost all gone!

Dore and Totley railway station serves the south-western suburbs of Dore and Totley approximately 4¾ south west of Sheffield city centre. The station is served by the Northern service between Sheffield and Manchester, East Midlands Railway service from Liverpool to Norwich and the TransPennine Express service between Manchester and Cleethorpes, all three running via the Hope Valley Line. The station was opened by the Midland Railway in 1872 as Dore and Totley on the Midland Main Line extension from Chesterfield to Sheffield. In 1894, the station became the junction for the new Dore and Chinley Line (now the Hope Valley Line). Following the Beeching cuts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeching_cuts ) in the 1960s which saw neighbouring Beauchief, Millhouses and Heeley stations all close, Dore and Totley became south Sheffield's only remaining station. The station is unstaffed with a self-service ticket machine available. The old station buildings are now in private commercial use as a restaurant. A small brick waiting shelter is provided at the northern end of the platform, along with passenger information displays, automatic announcements and timetable poster boards to offer train running information. Step-free access is available from the adjacent car park to the platform.

With Northern train about to leave for the Hope Valley and Manchester Piccadilly. In 1985 the previous track together with double faced platforms Nos 2 and 3 were removed. Platform 4 had previously been removed a decade earlier. For over 150 years the remaining platform to the right had been Platform 1, the one users first come to at the entrance. It has been causing confusion, however almost twice as many users go towards the Hope Valley and Manchester as into Sheffield. The services are tailored towards Manchester bound commuters rather than those into Sheffield city centre.

Nothing very remarkable? Train crews have been training on these units and over this route since November 2021. This was the first train to run with fare paying passengers.

Hauling the Pennine Limited Railtour from Carnforth

View northward, towards Sheffield: ex-Midland main lines from London, Derby etc. to Sheffield, Leeds etc., junction of Hope Valley line from Manchester. Stanier 'Jubilee' 6P 4-6-0 No. 45654 'Hood' (built 1/65, withdrawn 6/66) is on the 16.08 service from Sheffield to Derby: the Manchester line branched off at the extreme left.