Woodhouse railway station

Woodhouse
The station in 2005
General information
Location	Woodhouse, City of Sheffield England
Coordinates	53°21′50″N 1°21′27″W / 53.36382°N 1.35753°W / 53.36382; -1.35753
Grid reference	SK428854
Managed by	Northern Trains
Transit authority	Travel South Yorkshire
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	WDH
Fare zone	Sheffield
Classification	DfT category F2
History
Original company	Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Central Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
October 1850	First station opened as Woodhouse Junction
11 October 1875	Resited 640 m west and renamed Woodhouse
Passengers
2019/20	37,276
2020/21	7,072
2021/22	20,606
2022/23	27,492
2023/24	33,496
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Woodhouse railway station serves Woodhouse and Woodhouse Mill in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. The station is 5.25 miles (8 km) east of Sheffield station on the Sheffield to Lincoln Line.

The next station east was Waleswood, until its closure in 1955, and is now Kiveton Bridge. The next station west is Darnall. Beighton railway station, originally adjacent to the junction with the Midland Railway, but rebuilt by the MS&LR when it began work on its "Derbyshire Lines", was until 1954 the next station south.

Woodhouse Mill, Orgreave and Fence were served by a station on the North Midland Railway named Woodhouse Mill.

From 1955 until removal in 1981, the Barnsley Junction-Rotherwood segment of the Manchester – Sheffield – Wath electrification terminated slightly west of the Woodhouse station platforms, within sight of the station.^[1]

The present station is the second built to serve the community of Woodhouse, then separate from and not under the governance of Sheffield. The railway line between Sheffield and Gainsborough was proposed by the Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction Railway (S&LJR); upon authorisation of this line in August 1846, the S&LJR amalgamated with other railways to form the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (MS&LR).

The first section of the S&LJR line, between Sheffield and Beighton (on the Midland Railway) opened on 12 February 1849; the second section, which left the first near Woodhouse and ran to Gainsborough, opened on 17 July 1849. A station at the junction was opened by the MS&LR in October 1850, named Woodhouse Junction.^[2][3][4]

The original station was at the bottom of Junction Lane, adjacent to the present Woodhouse Junction, formerly East Junction, signal box and was built to serve the communities of Beighton, then within Derbyshire, and Woodhouse. This station was closed on 11 October 1875 and replaced on the same day by a new station 700 yards (640 m) to the west, named Woodhouse.^[4] The new station was one of the earliest examples of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway's Double Pavilion designs at its present location.

The current station has two platforms; what looks like a third disused and overgrown platform on the Down Side (Sheffield bound side) is a former Goods loading bay, whilst on the Up side (Worksop bound), again what looks like a disused platform is actually the truncated former Up Goods line that ran behind the Up Main platform.^[5][6] A number of goods sidings exist immediately to the east, which see sporadic use by engineers trains.

Woodhouse was the hub of two colliery branches: to the west a branch to Orgreave Colliery, which was extended to reach Treeton Colliery under the MS&LR (Extension to London) Act 1893 and opened on 10 October 1898, and, to the east, from Woodhouse East Junction, the Birley Branch, which served the Birley Collieries, belonging to the Sheffield Coal Company.

The station is unmanned and has no ticket provision - these must be bought in advance of travel or on the train. The buildings on both sides remain intact and each have waiting areas within. Train running information is provided by a customer help point on platform 1, display screens and timetable posters. Step-free access is only available to platform 1, as the footbridge from there to platform 2 has steps.^[7]

All services at Woodhouse are operated by Northern Trains using Class 150 and 195 DMUs.^[8]

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:^[9]

• 1 tph to Leeds via Sheffield
• 1 tph to Lincoln via Retford

On Sundays, the station is served by an hourly service between Lincoln and Sheffield, with some services continuing to Huddersfield.

There is an ongoing proposition by FirstGroup's Hull Trains to begin a new service between London King's Cross to Sheffield, stopping at Worksop station, giving Woodhouse its first direct service to London in decades.^[10] If this plan were to go ahead, FirstGroup predicts its operations to begin by 2025.^[11][12]

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Darnall		Northern Trains Sheffield to Lincoln Line		Kiveton Bridge
	Proposed services
Sheffield		Sheffield by Hull Trains East Coast Main Line		Worksop
	Historical railways
Darnall Line and station open		Great Central Railway Derbyshire Lines		Beighton Line open, station closed

• Milnes, Roger. "East of Sheffield". Forward (16). Great Central Railway Society. ISSN 0141-4488.
• Grainger, Ken. Scenes from the past:43 Sheffield Victoria to Chesterfield Central, The 'Derbyshire Lines' of the Manchester Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway Part One ISBN 1-870119-83-5

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• Train times and station information for Woodhouse railway station from National Rail