Trains at Sheffield, MML, 16/02/26

Sheffield station (formerly Pond Street and later Sheffield Midland) is a combined railway station and tram stop in Sheffield, England; it is the busiest station in South Yorkshire, and the third busiest in Yorkshire & the Humber, after Leeds and York.

Adjacent is the South Yorkshire Supertram stop.

The station was opened in 1870 by the Midland Railway to the designs of the company architect John Holloway Sanders.

It was the fifth and last station to be built in Sheffield city centre.

The station was built on the 'New Line', which ran between Grimesthorpe Junction, on the former Sheffield and Rotherham Railway, and Tapton Junction, just north of Chesterfield. This line replaced the Midland Railway's previous route, the 'old road', to London, which ran from Sheffield Wicker via Rotherham.

The new line and station were built despite some controversy and opposition locally.

The Duke of Norfolk, who owned land in the area, insisted that the southern approach be in a tunnel and the land known as The Farm landscaped to prevent the line being seen.

Some years later the tunnel was opened out into a cutting.

Sheffield Corporation was so concerned about the eastern side of the city being cut off from the city centre that it insisted that public access be preserved across the railway site.

In 2008, East Midlands Trains revealed its intention to restrict access to parts of the station by installing ticket barriers to try to prevent passengers from travelling without a ticket.

This proposal met with widespread opposition from residents and Council members because the footbridge would be closed off to non-ticket holders, severing a popular thoroughfare from the Norfolk Park residential area and the Supertram stop on one side, to the station travel centre, the bus interchange, the city centre and the city centre campus of Sheffield Hallam University on the other.

Duration of the video: 14:06 - 16:20

We’ll be seeing services by East Midlands Railway, Cross Country, Transpennine Express and Northern as well.

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It’s been at least a few years or so since I last revisited Sheffield but it was a nice station to come and revisit though despite dealing with the rain in the duration of the time I spent there but at least I saw an East Midlands Railway 810 whilst I was there which was nice to see.

My next station will be Nuneaton I’ve never done any train spotting there before but I sure hope I get a good amount of variety come through in the time I’ve spent there so until then thanks for watching and I’ll see you in the next video.