England’s new Derbyshire and South Yorkshire rail link moves closer
Barrow Hill has never faded from the railway scene Image by Shan Liu
It could soon be all aboard a long-campaigned for rail service connecting the market town of Chesterfield in North East Derbyshire, with the city of Sheffield in South Yorkshire. The Barrow Hill Line, which is still in use as a lightly trafficked freight route, could see funding from the abandoned HS2 project diverted into making the dream of a modern passenger service a reality.
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This will never happen.
To be viable the line must run into Sheffield Midland station.
The location at Victoria is not exactly passenger friendly. Anyone who is familiar with the area knows exactly why.
The question is why don’t they want to run into Sheffield Midland. There’s plenty of platform capacity.
If this idea was really clever the service would start at Chesterfield and follow the Barrow line to Sheffield and then continue on to chesterfield Via Dore with the platforms reinstated .. say 2 trains an hour in each direction both clockwise and anticlockwise so platform 3 at chesterfield should be sufficien. By going to Sheffield Victoria the route would have no purpose ….
If this idea was properly developed then the service would start from Chesterfield and go via barrow hill to Sheffield Midland and then continue on via Dore (with platforms reinstated) back to Chesterfield ..
2 trains an hour in both clockwise and anticlockwise directions with the right timings could all use platform 3 at Chesterfield .
Going to Sheffield Victoria would be foolhardy as it looses the ability for onwards connections as Sheffield Midland.
I agree with the above comments. Also I think this initiative is primarily to obtain votes via nostalgia. We need services which deliver connectivity and utility through reliability and frequency. There has been enough of selling fantasy to the public in the last ten years and more by this caball of questionable ‘conservatives’; stop the fantasy, get the job done.