Millhouses Station

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Millhouses Station was a railway station in the Millhouses district of Sheffield, South Yorkshire. When the station opened in 1870 it was called Ecclesall station, but this was changed, first to Mill Houses and Ecclesall, and later Millhouses and Ecclesall. It was situated on the Midland Main Line between Heeley Station and Beauchief Station, and was accessed from the Archer Road bridge, near the junction of Abbeydale Road and Millhouses Lane.

The station was opened at the same time as the main line from Chesterfield was opened and had 4 platforms although only 2 were in general use as there were 2 slow and 2 fast lines. The station closed on 10 June 1968, and remained derelict for many years. The station buildings and platforms were finally removed in the 1980s, but the station master's house survives as a private home. There have been numerous plans to rebuild a station, going as far as a feasibility study in 1997^[1], but so far none have come to fruition.

[edit] References

Harvey, Peter (1996). Abbeydale and Millhouses. Stround: The Charlford Publishing Company Limited. ISBN 978-0-7524-0732-6

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