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A look at the lost Woodhead railway line that once linked Sheffield, Penistone and Manchester in the north of England!
Having seen major investment in the 1950s, the line was controversially closed to passenger traffic on 5 January 1970. This was despite the Beeching Report earmarking the Hope Valley line for closure to passenger services instead.
By the early 1980s, the combination of alternative available routes, an absence of passenger traffic since 1970 and a downturn in coal traffic across the Pennines, along with a need to eventually expensively upgrade or replace the non-standard electrical supply systems and Class 76 locomotives, resulted in the line's closure east of Hadfield. The last train operated on 18 July 1981 and the line was mothballed.
The tracks were lifted in the mid-1980s, ending any short-term hopes of reopening. Almost the entire line east of Hadfield has now been lifted, apart from a few short sections shared with other lines, notably at Penistone. The trackbed between Hadfield and the Woodhead Tunnel has currently been adapted as the Longdendale Trail for hikers and cyclists.

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