Railway Mania Comes to ! The arrival of the railway in Penistone in 1845 transformed the town from commercial goods were transported including steel, Grimsby fish, Kentish fruit, of railway travel; the reduction in coal and passenger traffic - and the huge a sleepy hamlet to a large, bustling railway junction. Bringing industry and poultry, greyhounds, cattle, and pigeons. Local people embraced the opportunity cost of replacing the outmoded electrical supply system - brought the dream wealth to the town, Penistone was a key station both for passengers and to travel, enjoying shopping; holiday-making; nights out, and going to football to a halt in 1985. Today, only the line between and freight. Almost a quarter of freight trains carried coal, but a range of other matches. A vision made real by entrepreneurs who grasped the possibilities survives, transporting people to and from our busy town.

Lord Wharncliffe. ©National Portrait Gallery Snowplough 1947. ©Barnsley Archives CC By 2.0 and Local Studies Department ALARMING ACCIDENT Development of the Penistone - an Unlucky Place Station Staff Ernest Edward ON THE , SHEFFIELD Worsfold. Railway in Penistone to Cross the ! ©Biltcliffe AND LINCOLNSHIRE RAILWAY 1920s porter Ernest Edward Worsfold Collection 16th July 1864 Bullhouse Bridge derailment: 24 dead. 25 February 1871 (known as ‘Cocky’ Worsfold) was famous for balancing parcels on his head. ‘It has…been said…that Penistone is the most perfect January 1885 Goods wagon crashes into excursion At 4am on a stormy night a goods train stopped at town in the kingdom, so perfect, that no improvementPenistone He was regularly seen cycling through Viaduct train: 3 dead. Bridge Station to pick up three wagons. While has been made in it during the last hundred years. the engine went to fetch the wagons from the siding, Penistone with a tray on his head, Present Day I flatter myself that Penistone has now got overHUDDERSFIELD that LINE the heavily-laden wagons left on the down line began delivering the buns and cakes which period of its existence, and that henceforward it will Penistone ‘…the shrieks and groans of rolling towards Penistone; quickening their speed on Subway for had arrived by train. become a thriving and prosperous town.’ another ghastly railway tragedy rose over the the steepsteelworks downward gradient. Four minutes later the Penistone’s ‘Edmondson’ ticket machine Collection Penistone was known as the coldest station... ©Biltcliffe Lord Wharncliffe. Ceremony to celebrate 1st sod being bleak landscape of the Penistone district.’ runaway wagons careered into Penistone - tearing into turned for the . the sidings, ripping up lines and colliding with goods In October 1882 a passenger train left Barnsley in Neville Whitwam: Holiday Penistone’s First Station Penistone wagons, which were pitched into the Huddersfield and heavy snow at seven o’clock on Wednesday evening, and Sickness Relief 1960s. North SignalSheffield Daily Telegraph January, 1885 Sheffield Independent Sept, 1845 Power Penistone turnpike road. The wagons ploughed on into arriving in Penistone at eight o’clock on Thursday ‘I opened the guard’s van and a greyhound The original railway station was built on the other Control Box Centre March 1889 Boat Race excursion train overturns the warehouse, smashing it to pieces! leapt out and bounded down the platform. Loading TO SHEFFIELD, morning - all night to travel seven miles! Neville side of Penistone in 1845. It consisted of a neat white Dock My instructions were ‘Catch that Whitwam 1835 Sheffield, Ashton-Under-Lyne, andPenistone Manchester West at Huddersfield Junction: 1 dead, 18 injured. BARNSLEY station house, a booking hall, a general waiting room Signal Box & SIDINGS Railway (S.A.M.R.) Company formed. In 1892 Francis Edward Lee, a solicitor from greyhound!’, but there was no chance!’ Penistone Station Sheffield Independent Tuesday 21 February 1871 with a small compartment devoted to ladies, and a Sheffield, was travelling to a funeral at Penistone Research by Florence Green, aged 5 1838 Work on the Woodhead Line commences. S tavern. It closed to passengers in 1873, and became to read a will. When the train rushed through 1844 Manchester - Woodhead section opens to the public. Dolly Cartwright: Porter 1947 – 50s. the goods station. TO MANCHESTER BARNSLEY LINE Penistone Station without stopping, he pulled the 1845 July Sheffield to section& FIRST opensPENISTONE Seven defendants were each fined 20/-Barnsley for travelling The train stopped and a man opened the The station master, Benjamin Rooth, STATION Communication Cord, bringing the express to a to the public. without tickets…One of them was foundJunction under the seat, Footbridge Signal Box carriage window: “Are there any tunnels was presented with a purse containing another had succeeded in wrapping himself up in a standstill. The guard refused to allow him to get out 1845 23rd December Whole route opens to theS publicSubway Huddersfi eld between Penistone and Manchester?” 100 guineas on his retirement in 1874. Junction brown overcoat and getting on to the luggage rack. of the carriage, but as the train started, Lee climbed following the completion of the .Timber crossings Turntable “Yes” I said, “There’s one that’s four and Signal Box out through the window and ran back to Penistone! Penistone 1847 S.A & M R merges + three other companies Sidings You are here a half miles long.” Viaduct Barnsley Barnsley Chronicle Saturday 28 March, 1902 The Second Station to form Manchester, Sheffield & LincolnshireTrans Pennine Trail Boat Race Train accident. © Present Day He got his luggage out straightaway and Dolly Cartwright. Penistone Line HUDDERSFIELD LINE Railway (M.S.L.R.) Company. Archives and Local StudiesDavid Department Brown Ltd rang for a taxi to take him the 28 miles Courtesy of Les The present station was erected, in its current WOODHEAD LINE Worsfold 1850 July Huddersfield line opens. Subway for The Second Station to Manchester! location, in 1873. Costing around £6,000, it was built steelworks ‘The Woodhead Comment’ 1852 Feb Completion of second Woodhead tunnel. by Messrs Wetherby and Rymer of York using local Bridge Street (Opened 1873) Bernie Guest: Signalman 1943 – 1994. ‘...all enthusiasts of Great Railway lines, 1854 July Barnsley line opens. Penistone stone. Including a station master’s house, refreshment Viaduct ‘I used to love putting my head out of Talbot Road Remember the greatest one of all time. rooms, booking offices, and a parcel office, there were Penistone1897 M.S.L.R. changes name to Present Day Power North Signal Penistone Line the signal box window at two The Great Central Railway from Manchester did run (GCR) in anticipation of line extension to London. HUDDERSFIELD LINE also first, second, and third class waiting rooms, andControl Box o’clock in the morning when Centre Subway for To Sheffield and London, but now it’s all done.’ 1899 LoadingLine extended to London. TO SHEFFIELD, conveniences for ladies and gentlemen. Dock D LINE (Now TPT) steelworks the fruit trains were going Penistone West WOODHEA BARNSLEY Roland Pearson: Signalman 1947 – 1981. 1923 GCR becomes a constituent of LNER There were six platforms - each was flaggedSignal and Box well- & SIDINGS up from Lincolnshire to Penistone(London &Station North Eastern Railway). WOODHEAD LINE Coal Drops Manchester market – what lit with gas lamps, and two of them were 500 feet S Engine Shed Penistone 1948 Becomes British Railways Eastern Region. Power North Signal a smell – we used to close the (152m) long and had canopies to keep the rain off. Control Box TO MANCHESTER 1954 Third Woodhead tunnel opens, completing BARNSLEY LINE Centre windows when the fish trains A footbridge and an arched subway allowed passengers Loading TO SHEFFIELD, & FIRST PENISTONE electrification of the line. Barnsley Dock went past.’ to reach the platforms without crossing the lines. Penistone West BARNSLEY Huddersfield Junction Signal Box. STATION Junction Signal Box 1970Footbridge 5th January Passenger services close on Stationmaster’s Tavern & SIDINGS Signal Box Penistone Station ©John Webster S Subway Woodhead Line (SheffieldHuddersfi – Manchester eld House/Booking WOODHEAD LINE Junction & Goods Offi ces S ‘I liked to go on to the platform and take it all in…Timber crossings Piccadilly). Turntable ​SHOCKING FATAL ACCIDENT Signal Box the gas lighting, the big two-faced clock, the tiny Sidings 1981 18th JulyYou Last are freighthere train on TO MANCHESTER BARNSLEY LINE AT PENISTONE STATION & FIRST PENISTONE Barnsley newspaper kiosk which only opened in the mornings, Woodhead Line. Market Lane It is supposed that Elliot Hawkyard mistook the parapet of the STATION Junction the letter box on the wall, the red penny chocolate David Brown Ltd Footbridge Signal Box viaduct for the station platform, as the night was dark and he S Subway Huddersfi eld was rather short sighted. Hawkyard, who had been to the funeral machine, and the barrow: ready for action at the The First Station Junction Timber crossings Turntable of his father, stepped out of the carriage onto the parapet; took end of the platform…there was even a roaring fire Signal Box (1845-1873) Sidings You are here another step forward and fell headlong to the ground beneath. in the third class waiting room with a bucket of Trans Pennine Trail A search was made at once for the body, which was found in a coal at the side for passengers to use.’ David Brown Ltd terribly mangled state in the roadway below. ‘The subway…became a favoured rendezvous of Former NER Raven class B16 4-6-0 No 61456 from ladies from Barnsley and Sheffield with American York shed is turned manually at Penistone. Sheffield Daily Telegraph Wednesday 10 September 1884 ©Kenneth Field/Rail Archive Stephenson soldiers. Certain young women, both married and Margaret Penning unmarried, were clearly not averse to dalliance.’ Bo-Bo – EM1 Electric Train. Day Trip to Blackpool Station Masters The Viaduct The Turntable Margaret Penning: Booking Clerk 1945 - 47 ©Bill Wright I remember day trips to Belle Vue and Blackpool First station master: Engineered by Sir John Hawkshaw and built using The turntable was used extensively to turn goods John Bedford ‘The ticket office was just as you entered the station with sandwiches made and thermos flasks filled. local stone by Messrs Ingham and Bower in 1850; the locomotives and, at one time, to turn the Huddersfield Penistone Station. ©Biltcliffe Collection from the car park. I remember walking under Electrification We could see the train arriving by the plumes of 1855 - 1874 Grade II listed, 29-arch viaduct is 98ft (30m) high. engine around for the return journey. 32 points/lever smoke; the platform would begin to shake and I’d Benjamin Rooth the subway with the white tiled walls to get to the In February 1916, following prolonged heavy rain, one changes were required to move the engine between the The idea of electrifying the Manchester, Sheffield, hold my dad’s hand tighter as the double steam 1881 - 1887 central island platforms one and two. Standing of the arches near the station collapsed and a locomotive station and the turntable, but just two men were needed and Wath lines using overhead 1500V DC began in monsters pulled into the platform hissing and William Vernon on the platform the ground shook when a big crashed into the valley below. Driver George Lockwood to push it around! You can still see the remains of the 1936 as a means of increasing efficiency: invariably steaming. Then came ‘All aboard!’, with excited Black Five locomotive rumbled in.’ 1887 – 1903 and his fireman saved their lives by jumping clear just turntable today 200m (about 220 yards) SE of the station. up to four steam locos were needed to haul the heavy kids and slamming of the heavy carriage doors - Robert Hunt (right) (Harold Haigh - passenger c.1950) The two-faced clock. as the engine plunged from the rails! coal trains out of Wath Yard and up the steeply- the guard blew his whistle and off we went! 1927-1941 graded Wentworth Incline. Electrification meant Christine Haigh, Passenger c. 1950 F. R. Fishbourne 1916 viaduct accident. that only two engines (front and rear) were now 1941-1950 ©Barnsley Archives needed. The first main line to be electrified in the Mr Peabody and Local Studies B1 61105 #2957 engine. Department ©Brian Stephenson ©Jim Freebury UK; work was delayed by the Second World War, 1950-1952 and finally began in 1949, with full service between Matthew Norman Thornley Wath and Dunford Bridge in February 1952. 1956 Electrification of the whole line was completed in Mr E. A. Binch September 1954 following the opening of the third 1962 Woodhead tunnel in June. The locomotives were G. Rimmington called Bo-Bo’s and Co-Co’s although the pioneer The last station master; Bo-Bo No.26000 was affectionately named “Tommy” Roy Jubb (right) by the Dutch railwaymen, following its spell in retired in 1985. Courtesy of Janet and Anthony Jubb Holland on trials there after WWII. BiltcliffeCollection The footbridge. ©

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