New museum to be created to mark historic railway line connecting Manchester and Sheffield
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA new museum is to be created to mark the history of a railway line linking Manchester and Sheffield through the Peak District.
Plans have been submitted to Tameside council for the creation of a museum at Guide Bridge Railway Station in a former Network Rail office building.
The project, by the Woodhead Railway Heritage Group, aims to highlight the history of the Woodhead Railway Line that ran between Manchester and Sheffield, and which the application states was the first overhead electric railway in the UK. Try MEN Premium for FREE by clicking here for no ads, fun puzzles and brilliant new features The line, which passes through the northern Peak District through the Woodhead Tunnels, was first opened in 1845.
It was electrified in 1953 and closed between Hadfield and Penistone in 1981. Services still run from Manchester to Glossop and Hadfield, and trains also run from Sheffield to Penistone via a different route, continuing onwards to Huddersfield.
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