Attercliffe Road
General information
Location	Attercliffe,City of Sheffield England
Coordinates	53°23′21″N1°27′00″W / 53.389140°N 1.450110°W /53.389140; -1.450110
Grid reference	SK366881
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Pre-grouping	Midland Railway
Post-grouping	LMSR London Midland Region of British Railways
Key dates
1 February 1870	Opened[1]
1995	Closed
Location

Attercliffe Road railway station is a formerrailway station inSheffield,South Yorkshire, England.

v t e Sheffield District Railway
Legend
Context
Rotherham Masbro' Holmes Meadowhall Brightside Sheffield District Railway West Tinsley   &   Catcliffe Treeton Attercliffe Road Sheffield District Railway Attercliffe Goods Depot Woodhouse Mill Sheffield (Midland) Heeley Millhouses and Ecclesall Beauchief Dore and Totley Bradway Tunnel Beighton Junction Darnall         LDECR Dronfield Killamarsh West Upperthorpe & K'marsh Mansfield viaShirebrook North Eckington & R'shaw Unstone Barrow Hill Sheepbridge Whittington Tapton Junction "New Road" "Old Road" Chesterfield
Detail
Attercliffe Rd -Brightside River Don Attercliffe Goods Hadfield's Works Jessop's Works Cooper's Works Firth's Works Allen's Works Cook's Works West Tinsley Broughton Lane -Tinsley Sheffield Canal Tinsley Park Colliery Tinsley Wood Tunnel Catcliffe River Rother Treeton, "Old Road" Chesterfield    Masbro'

The station served the communities ofAttercliffe,Burngreave and workers in theDon Valley and was situated on theMidland Main Line near Attercliffe Road, lying betweenSheffield railway station andBrightside railway station.

The station was opened at the same time as the main line fromChesterfield was opened in 1870 and had twoplatforms. This new station of 1870 was designed by the company architectJohn Holloway Sanders.^[2] The station was positioned above Effingham Street, although access was from a gated path from Leveson Street; anunderpass led to an inclined bridge on to theDown platforms.

Opened by theMidland Railway, it became part of theLondon Midland and Scottish Railway during theGrouping of 1923. The station then passed on to theLondon Midland Region of British Railways uponnationalisation in 1948.

Whensectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served byRegional Railways in co-operation with theSouth Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive until theprivatisation of British Rail.

The decline ofSheffield's steel industry in the later half of the 20th century gradually reduced the passenger usage and made the station less and less needed. By the 1980s only certain morning and eveningpeak trains called at the station, as stopping trains there exacerbated capacity problems in the major bottleneck north of Sheffield Midland. By the early 1990s this lack of trains had caused the station's patronage to dwindle to a level at which closure was easily justified, again with line capacity constraints being quoted as the reason, with the end coming in 1995.

Little is left of the station but the platforms which can be seen from moving trains. The underpass is blocked by overgrown vegetation although the gated entrance can still be seen from Leveson Street just by the bridge over theRiver Don.

• Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995).The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.).Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd.ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7.OCLC 60251199.OL 11956311M.
• Jowett, Alan (2000).Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers.ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1.OCLC 228266687.
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989).Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd.ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0.OCLC 22311137.
• Station on navigable O.S. map The station is the minor one to the north of the two main Sheffield stations

• Photo of station in 1983 looking towards Sheffield

• Attercliffe
• Disused railway stations in Sheffield
• Former Midland Railway stations
• Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1870
• Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1995

• Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas
• Articles with short description
• Short description is different from Wikidata
• Use dmy dates from March 2015
• Use British English from March 2015
• All Wikipedia articles written in British English
• Coordinates on Wikidata
• Articles with OS grid coordinates
• Pages with no open date in Infobox station
• Pages using the Kartographer extension