Woodhouse  | |||||
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 The station in 2005 | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | Woodhouse,City of Sheffield England | ||||
| Coordinates | 53°21′50″N1°21′27″W / 53.36382°N 1.35753°W /53.36382; -1.35753 | ||||
| Grid reference | SK428854 | ||||
| Managed by | Northern Trains | ||||
| Transit authority | Travel South Yorkshire | ||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Station code | WDH | ||||
| Fare zone | Sheffield | ||||
| Classification | DfT category F2 | ||||
| History | |||||
| Original company | Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway | ||||
| Pre-grouping | Great Central Railway | ||||
| Post-grouping | London and North Eastern Railway | ||||
| Key dates | |||||
| October 1850 | First station opened asWoodhouse Junction | ||||
| 11 October 1875 | Resited 640 m west and renamedWoodhouse | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2020/21 |  7,072 | ||||
| 2021/22 |  20,606 | ||||
| 2022/23 | 27,492 | ||||
| 2023/24 | 33,496 | ||||
| 2024/25 | 40,388 | ||||
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Woodhouse railway station servesWoodhouse andWoodhouse Mill inSheffield,South Yorkshire, England. Thestation is 5.25 miles (8 km) east ofSheffield station on theSheffield to Lincoln Line.
The next station east wasWaleswood, until its closure in 1955, and is nowKiveton Bridge. The next station west isDarnall.Beighton railway station, originally adjacent to the junction with the Midland Railway, but rebuilt by the MS&LR when it began work on its "Derbyshire Lines", was until 1954 the next station south.
Woodhouse Mill,Orgreave andFence were served by a station on theNorth Midland Railway namedWoodhouse Mill.
From 1955 until removal in 1981, the Barnsley Junction-Rotherwood segment of theManchester – Sheffield – Wath electrification terminated slightly west of the Woodhouse station platforms, within sight of the station.[1]
The present station is the second built to serve the community of Woodhouse, then separate from and not under the governance of Sheffield. The railway line between Sheffield and Gainsborough was proposed by theSheffield and Lincolnshire Junction Railway (S&LJR); upon authorisation of this line in August 1846, the S&LJR amalgamated with other railways to form theManchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (MS&LR).
The first section of the S&LJR line, between Sheffield and Beighton (on theMidland Railway) opened on 12 February 1849; the second section, which left the first near Woodhouse and ran to Gainsborough, opened on 17 July 1849. A station at the junction was opened by the MS&LR in October 1850, namedWoodhouse Junction.[2][3][4]
The original station was at the bottom of Junction Lane, adjacent to the present Woodhouse Junction, formerly East Junction, signal box and was built to serve the communities ofBeighton, then withinDerbyshire, and Woodhouse. This station was closed on 11 October 1875 and replaced on the same day by a new station 700 yards (640 m) to the west, namedWoodhouse.[4] The new station was one of the earliest examples of theManchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway'sDouble Pavilion designs at its present location.
The current station has two platforms; what looks like a third disused and overgrown platform on the Down Side (Sheffield bound side) is a former Goods loading bay, whilst on the Up side (Worksop bound), again what looks like a disused platform is actually the truncated former Up Goods line that ran behind the Up Main platform.[5][6] A number of goods sidings exist immediately to the east, which see sporadic use by engineers trains.
Woodhouse was the hub of two colliery branches: to the west a branch toOrgreave Colliery, which was extended to reachTreeton Colliery under the MS&LR (Extension to London) Act 1893 and opened on 10 October 1898, and, to the east, from Woodhouse East Junction, the Birley Branch, which served theBirley Collieries, belonging to theSheffield Coal Company.
The station is unstaffed and has no ticket provision - these must be bought in advance of travel or on the train. The buildings on both sides remain intact and each have waiting areas within. Train running information is provided by a customer help point on platform 1, display screens and timetable posters. Step-free access is only available to platform 1, as the footbridge from there to platform 2 has steps.[7]
All services at Woodhouse are operated byNorthern Trains usingClass 150 and195DMUs.[8]
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:[9]
On Sundays, the station is served by an hourly service between Lincoln and Sheffield, with some services continuing toHuddersfield.
There is an ongoing proposition byFirstGroup's Hull Trains to begin a new service betweenLondon King's Cross toSheffield, stopping at Worksop station, giving Woodhouse its first direct service to London in decades.[10] If this plan were to go ahead, FirstGroup predicts its operations to begin by 2025.[11][12]
| Preceding station |  National Rail | Following station | ||
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| Northern Trains | ||||
| Proposed services | ||||
| Sheffield | Sheffield by Hull Trains East Coast Main Line | Worksop | ||
| Historical railways | ||||
Line and station open | Great Central Railway | Line open, station closed | ||
