Dunford Bridge railway station

Dunford Bridge
Dunford Bridge railway station in 1954
General information
LocationDunford Bridge, Barnsley
England
Coordinates53°31′04″N 1°45′46″W / 53.5178°N 1.7628°W / 53.5178; -1.7628
Grid referenceSE158023
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companySheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway
Pre-groupingGreat Central Railway
Post-groupingLondon and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
14 July 1845opened
1954station moved to new alignment
5 January 1970closed
The station in 1950

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]

  1. ^ "Electric Locomotive Equipment for the Manchester-Sheffield-Wath Line" (PDF). Railway Archive. December 1954. Retrieved 7 November 2015.