page_title: Wadsley Bridge railway station
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Wadsley Bridge railway station / History
caption_attribution_description: Wadsley Bridge signal box located on the Up platform of the closed Wadsley Bridge station in north Sheffield. Saturday 6th June 1987 Wadsley Bridge signal box was a Manchester Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway type 4 design fitted with a 30 lever Railway Signal Company Tappet frame which was opened in 1912 by the Great Central Railway, replacing a 28 lever Manchester Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway type 1 design dating from the 1870s. The lever frame was extended to 41 levers in 1929 and the signal box closed on 11th August 1985 when the line between Woodburn Junction signal box and Deepcar was singled and worked by one train (with no staff) regulations. The signal box remained derelict until the late 1980s
context_page_description: Wadsley Bridge railway station was a station in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England on the Great Central Railway's core route between Manchester and Sheffield.
context_section_description: The station opened on 14 July 1845 as part of the then Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway, on its original route from Bridgehouses in Sheffield (soon superseded by Sheffield Victoria) to Manchester London Road. This route became more popularly known as the Woodhead Line. The station stood on the north side of Halifax Road between Neepsend and Oughtibridge stations.
  The station closed to regular passenger service on 15 June 1959, with the Woodhead Line itself closing to passengers in 1970. However, Wadsley Bridge railway station still saw occasional passenger use.  summer specials were advertised until 31 October 1965, Sheffield–Huddersfield passenger trains continued to run through the station until 1983 and football specials used the station until 1996, serving Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough Stadium.  Also, between 15 and 19 February 1979, British Rail temporarily reopened the station (along with Dronfield and the Midland Main Line platforms at Dore) because road transport throughout Sheffield had been brought to a standstill by heavy snowfall.  All Sheffield–Huddersfield trains served the station during that period, and a special single fare of £0.16 was charged.
caption: Wadsley Bridge signal box on 6 June 1987
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