Reading the double page spread on January 22, on the ambitious transport plan for the region, there is one issue that sticks out like a sore thumb, and that is the utter madness of closing the ...

Rail campaigners are calling for a long-forgotten train route between Sheffield and Manchester to be brought back - 50 years after the last passenger services on the line ended. Did you know with a ...

The line, which passed through the Woodhead Tunnels, first opened in 1845 and was electrified in 1953 Plans have been submitted for a museum celebrating a railway line which once linked Manchester and ...

Campaigners fighting to reopen the Woodhead rail line have welcomed a move to seal-up the route’s three tunnels. The government has announced it will not buy them from present owners, the National ...

RAIL campaigners have reacted with dismay after the Government announced it will not seek to reopen the Woodhead tunnels beneath the Peak District to establish a faster rail link between Sheffield and ...

GOVERNMENT plans to electrify the rail line between Manchester and Liverpool have put new heart into campaigners wanting to re-open the Woodhead Tunnel. Save the Woodhead Tunnel group – which meets ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Train Simulator: Woodhead Route Add-On Running from Sheffield to Manchester via the rugged landscape of the Pennines, the Woodhead Line was electrified way ...

Plans have been submitted for a museum celebrating a railway line which once linked Manchester and Sheffield. Documents lodged with Tameside Council said the site at Guide Bridge station would ...