There are two types of people: those who enjoy traveling and those who don’t. And there’s also the clash between them, with travelers obsessively trying to convert the non-travelers and non-travelers begging to be left alone on the issue.
Penistone Gallery - The Penistone Archive
Disused Stations: Penistone Station
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1916 - Penistone viaduct collapse.
Penistone to Dunford Bridge is a 5.7-mile route on the National Cycle Network, connecting Penistone and Dunford Bridge in Yorkshire
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DESCRIPTIONS TO BE APPLIED SHORTLY WOODHEAD ROUTE INFO: The Woodhead line was the Great Central railway route from Sheffield Victoria to Manchester Piccadilly. It has - well had - a claim to fame as the first electrified main line railway in the UK, when it went live in 1953. Unfortunately, due to the evils of Beeching, the passenger services ceased to be on January 5th, 1970...along with Victoria itself. Several small intermediate stations had already shut during the years up to its demise, with Neepsend, Wadsley Bridge, Oughtibridge, Deepcar and Wortley all having sold their last tickets by 1957. Wadsley Bridge remained partly open for football services until the mid 90s. The line continued as a major goods corridor for several years, although the wires went in 1981. Passenger DMUs from Sheffield to Huddersfield used the route until 1983, reversing and travelling through Victoria, before being route through Barnsley instead. An electrified branch from Wath near Rotherham brought coal trains up via Worsborough - this junctioned with the Barnsley-Huddersfield route near Oxspring. The GCR track was lifted, from north west of Deepcar, to Hadfield near Glossop, between 1985-86. A surviving single track from Sheffield branches off left towards Stocksbridge steel works. The trackbed from here continues as The Transpennine Trail today. This tranquil ten-and-a-half mile stretch passes west through Wortley, Thurgoland, Oxspring and Penistone where it junctions with the still current Sheffield/Barnsley-Huddersfield line. The Worsborough line was already lifted by 1981, and is now better known as the Dove Valley trail. Beyond Penistone the former GC line leaves to head on through Millhouse Green, Hazelhead and eventually Dunford Bridge where the closed Woodhead Tunnel cuts the path short. The climb up from Penistone was as steep as 1 in 100 and trains that travelled from the Wath line were push-pulled by up to two electric locomotives at each end. Cyclists and walkers with the strength to continue can climb the near vertical Windle Edge left out of Dunford and then trek over the Pennines to Woodhead Station where the track remerged into daylight. This six mile section onward to Hadfield continues as the Longendale Trail.
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What makes England such a fascinating country is the survival of many odd customs and ceremonies and I find none so curious as the dole or charity. This is perhaps the least well know of such surviving charities and it is not included as far as I am aware in any countrywide customs works, although it…
A History of Penistone and District by David Hey | 9781903425213,Buy new & second-hand (used) books online with Free UK Delivery at AwesomeBooks.com
A Comprehensive History of the Workhouse by Peter Higginbotham
Penistone's new market hall, built in 2010, is said to be the largest oak-framed structure built in this country for several hundred years. It was built using historic methods with traditional materials. It has received the Best Community Project Award from South Yorkshire and Humber LABC Building Excellence.
WW1 List of the Fallen for Penistone Township (photograph taken 28 June 2014) Links: War Memorials Archive listing War Memorials Online ...
