Dunford Bridge railway station

Dunford Bridge
Dunford Bridge railway station in 1954
General information
Location	Dunford Bridge, Barnsley England
Coordinates	53°31′04″N 1°45′46″W / 53.5178°N 1.7628°W / 53.5178; -1.7628
Grid reference	SE158023
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Central Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
14 July 1845	opened
1954	station moved to new alignment
5 January 1970	closed

Dunford Bridge railway station was a railway station that served the village of Dunford Bridge on the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway situated immediately east of the Woodhead Tunnel, 5 miles (8 km) west of Penistone, within the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England.

The station was 22 miles (35 km) east of Manchester London Road (now Manchester Picadilly) and 20 miles (32 km) west of the now closed Sheffield Victoria station.^[1]