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4 unusual facts about Dore and Totley railway station


Dore and Totley railway station

The station is served by the Northern Rail service between Sheffield and Manchester, East Midlands Trains (EMT) service from Liverpool to Norwich and the First TransPennine Express (TPE) service between Manchester and Cleethorpes, all three running via the Hope Valley Line.

In 1894 the station became the junction for the new Dore and Chinley line (now the Hope Valley Line).

Dore and Totley railway station (named Dore railway station from 1971 until 2008) is a small, one platform railway halt near the Sheffield areas of Dore and Totley in South Yorkshire, England.

The station site had previously been occupied by the Walk Mill; a water-powered mill in operation from the 1280s onwards was used by the monks of Beauchief Abbey to cleanse and thicken cloth.


Hope Valley Line

From Sheffield, trains head down the Midland Main Line to Dore and Totley, where the Hope Valley Line branches off to run through the Totley Tunnel (the second longest in England).


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