SHEFFIELD MIDLAND

As the title suggests, we're going to look at Sheffield Midland (now just called Sheffield) railway station in this post. First though, there a couple of pubs to look at en route from our last port of call, the Rutland. 

Here is the Globe, a great Bass Charrington (Stones) pub when I visited back in 1977.

It later became "It's a Scream", but has now reverted back to its original name and is frequented by students. I'm not certain of the real ale situation.

At the bottom of the hill, facing the railway station, the Howard, which had windows from one of the city's lost breweries.

Here's the exterior of Sheffield station, in Midland Railway days.

And now, a modern view.

Let's go inside, in MR times.

For a few years, the Hull & Barnsley Railway ran into Sheffield, with a semi-fast service from Hull, using running powers over the MR from Cudworth.

Let's now go forward in time into the LMS period. The station had an overall roof in those days.

Preserved MR no. 1000 with an excursion at Sheffield Midland in the early 1960s.

Regular steam was still a feature in the first half of the '60s.

The second half of that decade saw the end of steam and the introduction of green diesels.

In the 1970s, "Peak" diesels were in charge of most main line services.

Other motive power could be seen on various excursions.

HSTs appeared in the '80s. This one had died.

More locos seen in Sheffield in the BR Blue era.

Local services were in the hands of various DMUs.

"Pacers" later took over some routes.

BR also introduced "Sprinters" to some longer distance services.

With privatisation, Arriva took on some local routes.

Northern is the current operator of these services.

The semi fast routes to Manchester and both coasts were first given to Northern Spirit Trans Pennine.

Central Trains also crossed the Pennines.

First Trans Pennine now use modern units on the Cleethorpes to Manchester corridor.

Midland Mainline used to run the service to St Pancras.

The Stagecoach Group later took over former Midland Mainline and Central Trains services.

Stagecoach no longer has that franchise and the new operator is EMR.

Virgin Trains once ran the Intercity Cross Country services.

"Voyager" DMUs are now in charge.

The occasional freight passes through, mainly to and from Hope Cement Works.

Back in 2020, one of these caused chaos for a few days.

On the north side of the station, there's a stop on Sheffield's Supertram network.

Back over to the south side, East Midland Motor Services' buses could once be found.

Some vehicles of South Yorkshire PTE stopped here too.

It's here that we find the superb Sheffield Tap, using a once redundant railway building. It has entrances on the street and Platform 1B. A great range of beers and it has its own brewery,!

Right! That's it for Sheffield Midland. Next time, Pond Street and thereabouts.