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	North Midland Railway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In later years the Midland Railway built a diversion through Dronfield and Sheffield, which became known to railwaymen as the "New Road", as opposed to the "Old Road".
		Nevertheless, the terrain was more difficult than for the other two railways to Derby, requiring 200 bridges and seven tunnels, and an aqueduct for the railway to pass underneath the Cromford Canal.
		It is now part of the Midland Main Line from London to Leeds and Sheffield and part of the route operated by Virgin Cross Country from the North East through Birmingham to the South West (sometimes known as the Cross Country Route).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/North_Midland_Railway (519 words)

	Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley and Doncaster History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Sheffield has been famous for the making of steel since at least the fourteenth century when one of Chaucer's pilgrims is described as carrying a Sheffield Thwitel in his hose.The proximity of iron ore, streams for power and suitable grinding stones made Sheffield an ideal centre for steel making.
		Sheffield was a major centre for the manufacture of armaments during the first and second world wars and was a target for enemy bombing, suffering much wartime damage.
		Rotherham lies in the coal mining district of South Yorkshire to the north east of Sheffield and grew principally as an iron, steel and brass producing centre.
	www.thenortheast.fsnet.co.uk /SouthYorkshire.htm (2248 words)

	Midland Railway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was formed in 1844 by the merger of the Midland Counties Railway, the North Midland Railway, and the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway.
		Alomst immediately, it took over the Leicester and Swannington Railway and the Sheffield and Rotherham Railway in 1845, but it was not until 1870 that a through route via Sheffield to the north was opened, from Chesterfield.
		In 1846 it took over the Birmingham and Bristol Railway in the face of the GWR's plans to extend to Birmingham, after a legendary chance meeting on a train, of the Midland's James Ellis and two Birmingham and Gloucester directors.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Midland_Railway (774 words)

	GENUKI: A Description of the Borough and Parish of Sheffield, 1852. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It holds a central situation betwixt Hull and Liverpool, and Leeds and Nottingham, and is situated in the South or Upper Division of the Wapentake of Strafforth and Tickhill, and in the West-Riding of Yorkshire, bordering upon Derbyshire.
		The History of Sheffield is long and interesting, but is not within the province of this volume; all that is here intended being a brief glance at its leading features, with a succinct account of the Public Institutions of the town and neighbourhood, followed by a copious Directory of the inhabitants.
		The Sheffield and Rotherham Railway was opened in 1838; the Midland Railway, in 1840; and the Sheffield and Manchester Railway, in 1845.
	www.genuki.org.uk /big/eng/YKS/Misc/Transcriptions/WRY/SheffieldDescription1.html (829 words)

	GENUKI: Rotherham Parish information from National Gazetteer 1868. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It is the Junction station of the Midland and Sheffield and Rotherham railways.
		The population of the town of Rotherham in 1851 was 6,325 with 1,269 inhabited houses, which in 1861 had increased to 7,598, with 1,484 inhabited houses.
		It is a populous suburb of Rotherham, from which it is separated by the river Don, and is famed for its extensive iron-works, founded in 1746 by the late Walker of Clifton.
	www.genuki.org.uk:8080 /big/eng/YKS/WRY/Rotherham/Rotherham68.html (2375 words)

	Subterranea Britannica: SB-Sites: Rotherham Masborough Station
		At Rotherham the line passed over the Sheffield and Rotherham Railway's Sheffield Wicker to Rotherham Westgate line and a large triangle junction was built allowing trains from the north and North Midland trains to travel into Sheffield from the northeast along the Don Valley.
		In the late 1850's, Sheffield was finally linked with Chesterfield, allowing Midland Main Line trains to call at the newly-opened Sheffield Midland station on their way north, passing back on to North Midland metals via the Sheffield and Rotherham..
		Rotherham Masborough regained its suffix in the timetables (although the station signboards were not modified) and soldiered on for a few years with Sheffield-York trains stopping until eventual closure in 1988.
	www.subbrit.org.uk /sb-sites/stations/r/rotherham_masborough/index.shtml (562 words)

	Mining Heritage, Rotherham
		In 1988 the headquarters of the NUM was relocated to Sheffield from London.
		Thomas Pearson, a colliery manager and secretary of the Sheffield and Rotherham Railway, was also the proprietor of Herringthorpe Colliery and managed collieries in the Holmes area for G. Chambers.
		In 1881 an agreement was made between the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Co. and the Shireoaks Colliery Co. regarding the use of a telephone at Shireoaks railway station.
	www.rotherhamweb.co.uk /h/mining.htm (3697 words)

	Sheffield City Council
		The Don Valley was the choice location for many large steelworks, due partly to the improved connections offered by the opening of the Sheffield to Tinsley Canal in 1819 and the Sheffield to Rotherham railway in 1838.
		This culminated in the 1980s with the decline of the Sheffield steel industry whereby the river lost its traditional function and became a forgotten part of the city.
		River corridors in west Sheffield were developed as unique green corridors and parks in the early 20th century.
	sccplugins.sheffield.gov.uk /urban_design/rivers_city.htm (444 words)

	Sheffield City Council - Development at Waverley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The remaining area of 640 acres is currently allocated in the Rotherham UDP for industrial, residential and community (white land) and recreational (green belt) usage.
		Rotherham Council intends to embark on a full consultation in the late summer this year.
		Whilst Rotherham have yet to complete their Urban Capacity Study the HMR strategy places strong emphasis on new housing development to regenerate central Rotherham and it is difficult to see how the building of 4,500 houses at Waverley would not undermine this strategy.
	www.sheffield.gov.uk /index.asp?pgid=34504&mtype=print (2611 words)

	Sheffield City Council - Observations on a Planning Application within Rotherham MBC Waverley Advanced Manufacturing ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The application was supported by a Transport Assessment and there has been ongoing liaison between Rotherham MBC and Sheffield City Council’s highway engineers about the proposed implications and potential mitigation measures.
		Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council is now promoting a major junction improvement, in consultation with the City Council. Funding for this improvement is likely to be obtained from several sources, and this development will contribute £850,000 towards the scheme as soon as 44,000 sqm of development (approximately 50%) has been occupied.
		Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council have negotiated a S106 obligation to ensure that no development can take place until a landmark bridge, suitable for both pedestrians and cyclists, has been secured to replace this crossing point.
	www.sheffield.gov.uk /index.asp?pgid=40104&mtype=print (1157 words)

	White's 1857 Directory of Derbyshire - pages 704-718 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It was rebuilt in 1710, and again in 1845, at an estimated cost of £2,037 10s., exclusive of the outbuildings; it is a handsome stone structure, with a residence for the master.
		The Midland railway has now placed it in a very favourable position, opening communication for its iron, coal, and lead, and it may now be considered as the centre of an extensive and flourishing trade.
		This established his character; and when the Liverpool and Manchester railway was undertaken he was employed; and was the first person who introduced a locomotive capable of travelling at anything like the present rate.
	www.n.f.wilson.btinternet.co.uk /704-718.htm (8656 words)

	Wicker Chairs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Sheffield Wicker Station was the first railway station to be built in Sheffield, Yorkshire.
		It was opened on 31 October 1838 as the southern terminus of the Sheffield & Rotherham Railway, which ran from this station north to Rotherham Westgate Station.
		Curves linking the Sheffield & Rotherham to the Midland Main Line in both directions at Rotherham Masborough Station were added in 1869, but Wicker station became obsolete as a passenger station on 1 February 1870 when the Midland Railway opened a direct route from Chesterfield to just North of Wicker station.
	www.wwwtln.com /finance/209/wicker-chairs.html (1048 words)

	Fuelling a Revolution
		To the west Sheffield city centre lies in the hollow beneath Park Hill and beyond stretch the outlines of the Pennine moorlands.
		The coal is of the Silkstone seam, and is of considerable thickness.
		Thus ended the formal management of the woods, and in 1904, 48 acres of it was presented to the people of Sheffield by the Duke of Norfolk for use as a park and it was consequently enclosed with railings.
	www.heritagewoodsonline.co.uk /map/034/034.html (3398 words)

	Rotherham People of Note: Rotherhamweb
		He became secretary of the Sheffield and Rotherham Railway in 1836 and moved to live in Sheffield.
		He served until the SRR was absorbed by the Midland Railway in 1845.
		Wilson was born in Rotherham, Yorkshire, England and died at Red Deer in 1939.
	www.rotherhamweb.co.uk /h/people.htm (1112 words)

	Midland Main Line (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The first part of the line was built by the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway and its subsidiary the Stonebridge Railway from Hampton-in-Arden, Warwickshire, on the London and Birmingham Railway, to Derby.
		This was followed on 1st July, 1840, by the North Midland Railway which ran from Derby to Leeds Hunslet Lane Station via Chesterfield, Swinton, Rotherham Masborough Station (from where the Sheffield and Rotherham Railway ran a branch to Sheffield Wicker Station), and Normanton.
		On the same day in 1840, the Midland Counties Railway, which ran from Derby to Leicester, was extended from Leicester (its previous Campbell Street Station being replaced by the current London Road Station) to a temporary station on the northern outskirts of Rugby.
	midland-main-line.ask.dyndns.dk (701 words)

	Tysick Genealogy
		Sheffield born Henry Tyzack, the sawmaker, was thirty years old in 1839.
		Henry's move corresponded with the opening of the Sheffield to Rotherham Railway line and the line from Masbrough to London.
		The inn's courtyard rang to the clip of hooves, the rattle of wheels on the cobbles and the commands of the ostlers.
	www.tyzack.net /hackney.htm (2973 words)

	UKBookworld.com old, rare and out-of-print book database
		Rotherham 1992 Privately published 84pp illustrated booklet on the village of Brinsworth and hamlet of Ickles situated between Rotherham & Sheffield.
		Rotherham 1997 Local Studies Bulletin No 9 Containing "Coal Miner hero Enoch Dalton of Maltby" Life in Brinsworth in the 1930's Broom in the 1870's + articles on Swallownets and Whiston.
		Sheffield Robert Leader 1837 A good clean sound copy in the original publishers cloth (Click on illustration) iv+322pps +(16)pps of advertisements.
	ukbookworld.com /cgi-bin/search.pl?s_i_DLR_ID=jlcapes&s_i_keywords=Rotherham (1045 words)

	Research Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		RUABON BROOK RAILWAY, 1800-1847, AKA THE PONTYCYSYLITE TRAMWAY, LEASED TO THE LNWR, NIL
		BALLYMENA + LARNE RAILWAY, 1877-1889, AMALGAMATED WITH THE MIDLAND RAILWAY
		CARRICKFERGUS & LARNE RAILWAY, 1862-1890, AMALGAMATED WITH THE MIDLAND RAILWAY
	www.railwayancestors.fsnet.co.uk /research.html (627 words)

	Glasgow University Archive Services - Collections - Summary Catalogue - Records of Mitchells, Johnston & Co, ...
		The firm was involved with many of the early Scottish railway lines subsequently absorbed by the Caledonian Railway or the North British Railway Co, and in acting as agents for these companies, amassed a large collection of papers relating to railway cases.
		Miscellaneous documents, usually individual items relating to separate railway companies outside of Scotland, including the Metropolitan District Railway, North Midland Railway, Great Eastern Railway, Metropolitan Railway, Great Northern Railway, East London Railway, Sheffield and Rotherham Railway, Midland Railway, Cambrian Railway, Great Central Railway, Lancashire Railway, London and Midland Grand Junction Railway, 1844-1909.
		Railway plans relating to the parish of Lesmahagow, 1898-1909.
	www.archives.gla.ac.uk /collects/catalog/ugd/001-050/ugd008-20.html (484 words)

	The Observer \| Travel \| Mike Holland: the week four route
		It took the trade boom of the Napoleonic Wars to overcome the century-old resistance of Sheffield's mill owners and the greatest of the area's land barons, the Duke of Norfolk, to a plan to link the home of the master cutlers with the sea.
		The money rolled in for 20 years until the building of the Sheffield and Rotherham railway saw the canal's income cut in half.
		As a postscript, a record one million tonnes of freight was carried on the Navigation as late as 1951 and in 1974 British Waterways upgraded the line between Rotherham and Doncaster to European Class 2 barge standard.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /travel/story/0,6903,687287,00.html (400 words)

	[No title]
		Whiston was described in 1862 as a pleasant but scattered village and parish situated in a deep and narrow valley at the intersection of the Bawtree and Mansfield and Rotherham roads.
		When Elizabeth died, aged 81, three years later, the "Rotherham Advertiser" reported that "she had been kept to her bed for 12 weeks till she passed away peacefully on Thesday.
		BYE, a platelayer on the railway, was Henry TOWNSEND's son-in-law and carried on his work at the chapel after his death.
	www.geocities.com /kitwnz/clay/rc.txt (22503 words)

	LRTA - The Light Rail Transit Association site - Sheffield news items
		The Supertram system in Sheffield has proved very popular and is now a symbol of Sheffield's modernisation together with various aspects of the Heart of the City project such as the new Peace Gardens and the Winter Gardens.
		Taking the tram through Rotherham town centre would also have a very positive regeneration effect and, just as trams now bring visitors to Sheffield City Centre from Meadowhall as well as the obvious flow towards Meadowhall, passengers might be attracted to Rotherham whereas at present they would never think of going there.
		A short visit to Sheffield on 23rd November confirmed that the new footbridge, entrance, and tram stop were all now in use.
	www.lrta.org /shnews.html (1618 words)

	BackTrack Volume 5
		Influence of railways upon a small community: slight influence of North Western Railway, much greater influence of Midland Railway with its junction with LYR, which created a much larger settlement.
		Hayling Island Railway incorporated 23 July 1860, but construction did not begin until 1863: opened to Langstone in 1865, and would have stayed there but for intervention of Francis Fuller who sought changes in route on Island and the whole was opended in 1867.
		History of railway, built by North Eastern Railway and opened in 1887 (first passenger train at Wooler on 5 September is illustrated); engineer was Thomas Elliot Harrison (1808-88): also Central Northumberland Railway promoted by Sir Charles Trevelyan (but not constructed); the influence of the NBR in Northumberland; map, gradient profile.
	www.steamindex.com /backtrak/bt5.htm (4516 words)

	BBC - South Yorkshire - Local History - Index
		Take a look at how the pavilions at Sheffield's Botanical Gardens were lovingly restored...
		Between Sheffield and Meadowhall is a secret garden, where history co-exists with wildlife.
		Sheaf Square and Sheffield Station, Heart of the City plans, New airport for Finningley, Should Doncaster become a city?
	www.bbc.co.uk /southyorkshire/i_love_sy/localhistory/index.shtml (197 words)

	LNER Mixed Traffic Engines: Steam Locomotive Performance
		By 1959, the Manchester services had ceased but there was still a 6.15pm to Sheffield, though it no longer carried the "Master Cutler" name.
		On that date I travelled on the Warwickshire Railway Society "Waverley" railtour from Birmingham to Edinburgh, which had suffered heavy delays earlier in the day, and by the time 60034 "Lord Farrington" handed over to 60886 at York, for the final run back to Saltley, we were 88 minutes late.
		Signal checks leaving York, a crossover slowing at Church Fenton, heavy delays in the Ferrybridge area caused by a derailment, then the usual pitfall slacks onwards to Rotherham.
	www.locoperformance.co.uk /edition05/lnermixedtraffic.htm (1275 words)

	[No title]
		Sir S R Sitwell was Lord of the Manor "and owner of most of the soil".
		His death coinc ided with a major chapel occasion, a two-d ay celebration of the anniversary of the founding of the Band of Hope: they sang a memorial hymn for Charles during the proceedings.
		A warm, Yorkshire tribute was paid to Elizabeth: "The Ministers and Local Preachers of the Rotherham Circuit will sustain a los s through the death of Mrs.
	www.geocities.com /kitwnz/clay/rc.rtf (16953 words)

	British locomotive manufacturers
		16 and 17) to Birmingham and Gloucester Railway.
		The locomotive was driven by belts and pulleys and was the invention of William Vickers.
		Tendered for 3ft 8in gauge locomotive for Severn and Wye Railway in 1864.
	www.steamindex.com /manlocos/manulist.htm (13737 words)

	map HMCMS:BWM469.4
		Railway guide, Bradshaw's Railway Companion, railway maps and timetables, published by Bradshaw and Blacklock, 27 Brown Street, Manchester, 1841.
		The railway to Hampshire is the London and South Western Railway, which began as the London and Southampton Railway, opened throughout in 1840, one year before this guide.
		One authority, A Jackson, states that Bradshaw published a monthly railway guide from December 1841, contradicting himself in a late edition of his book by saying from January 1842; this specimen is probably the earliest Bradshaw?
	www.geog.port.ac.uk /webmap/hantscat/html/h0106442.htm (321 words)

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