page_title: Sheffield and Rotherham Railway
hierarchical_section_title: Sheffield and Rotherham Railway
caption_attribution_description: Rotherham Station in 1840
context_page_description: The Sheffield and Rotherham Railway was a short railway in England, between Sheffield and Rotherham and the first in the two towns.
  In the early nineteenth century, when news broke of the building of the North Midland Railway, it was clear that George Stephenson would follow the gentle gradient of the Rivers Rother and Don, bypassing Sheffield. Stephenson known for his railway building techniques never built lines with gradients higher than 1 in 130. Despite representations by Sheffield people, who engaged Joseph Locke to state their case, and from Charles Vignoles and George Hudson to convince Stephenson to bring the NMR to Sheffield, the NMR was built via the Rother valley, to the east of Sheffield.
context_section_description: The Sheffield and Rotherham Railway was a short railway in England, between Sheffield and Rotherham and the first in the two towns.
  In the early nineteenth century, when news broke of the building of the North Midland Railway, it was clear that George Stephenson would follow the gentle gradient of the Rivers Rother and Don, bypassing Sheffield. Stephenson known for his railway building techniques never built lines with gradients higher than 1 in 130. Despite representations by Sheffield people, who  engaged Joseph Locke to state their case, and from Charles Vignoles and George Hudson to convince Stephenson to bring the NMR to Sheffield, the NMR was built via the Rother valley, to the east of Sheffield.
caption: Westgate Station c1840
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