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Hallam Line
Hallam Line
	LNER Class A4 4498 Sir Nigel Gresley passing the former Brightside station
Overview
Owner	Network Rail
Locale	West Yorkshire; South Yorkshire
Termini	Leeds; Sheffield;
Technical
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Route map
Route map
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Hallam Line

Legend

Selby Line

Leeds

Wakefield, Airedale, and

Huddersfield lines

Leeds New Approach

Leeds Hunslet Lane

Hunslet

Middleton Railway

EWYUR

Woodlesford

Methley North

Methley Junction

Methley Joint Railway

Methley South

Altofts and Whitwood

Castleford Cutsyke

Castleford

Castleford–Garforth line

to Sherburn-in-Elmet

Normanton

North Midland Railway

Pontefract line

Wakefield line

to Ravensthorpe

Penistone line

Barnsley

Barnsley Court House

to Cudworth via Monk Bretton

to Cudworth via Stairfoot

Wombwell

Elsecar

Wentworth

South Yorkshire Railway

Chapeltown

Ecclesfield West

Dearne Valley line

Meadowhall

Brightside

Sheffield District Railway

Grimesthorpe Bridge

Sheffield Wicker

Attercliffe Road

Woodhead line /
Sheffield–Lincoln line

Sheffield

Midland Main Line

The Hallam Line is a railway connecting Leeds and Sheffield via Castleford^[1] in the West Yorkshire Metro area of northern England. It is a slower route from Leeds to Sheffield than the Wakefield line. Services on this line are operated by Northern Trains. Services from Leeds to Nottingham also use the line.

West Yorkshire MetroCards are available on trains between Leeds and Darton, north of Barnsley and South Yorkshire Travelmaster tickets are available in the South Yorkshire area.

Origin of name

The line is named after the manor of Hallam which included Sheffield at the time of the Domesday Book (1086). At this time the local area was known as Hallamshire—the names Hallam and Hallamshire are still used today by many local companies and organisations.

History

Before the 1923 grouping the route followed by the line was owned as follows:

Leeds–Methley: Midland Railway
Methley–Normanton: Midland Railway
Methley–Castleford–Normanton: North Eastern Railway

(alternate route since 1988)

Normanton–Barnsley: Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Barnsley, Jumble Lane to Quarry Junction: Great Central Railway
Barnsley, Quarry Junction to Sheffield: Midland Railway

After 1921, the entire route, except Methley to Normanton via Castleford, and the short stretch from Barnsley (Jumble Lane) to Quarry Junction, became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway until nationalisation in 1948. Midland Railway trains made use of Barnsley Court House station to avoid contact with Great Central or LNER rails.

The route that now exists as the Hallam Line was not possible until 1960 when BR added a connection at Barnsley (Quarry Junction) to allow trains to use Exchange station and reach the Midland line to Sheffield.

Route details

Trains on the line serve the following places; some stations may no longer be open:

Leeds railway station: in MR days trains would have operated from Wellington station. Here there is a triangular junction with the line to Bradford. The line from here to Castleford is also served by Pontefract Line services.
Hunslet (Closed)
here was the junction with the East & West Yorkshire Union Railway (MidR/Great Northern Railway (GNR) joint: it was a direct connection to Wakefield via Rothwell
Woodlesford
Methley: station closed
between here and Castleford there were several junctions: with the Methley Joint Railway (GNR/L&YR/North Eastern Railway (NER); with the NER line Leeds to York; and with the Swinton & Knottingley Railway to Pontefract
Either goes to a branch towards Castleford where it then reverses towards Normanton which stopping trains use or alternatively goes a more direct route bypassing Castleford and past the former Altofts railway station which closed in 1990 towards Normanton station that Leeds–Sheffield fast trains use.
Normanton
here the MidR main line to Sheffield branched off: our route now uses the L&YR metals
Wakefield Kirkgate (Also served by the Pontefract and Huddersfield lines)
Horbury Junction (closed) for the L&YR main line to Manchester
Crigglestone (Closed)
A pair of parallel single-track tunnels, Woolley Tunnels (1745 yd; 1570 m), which take the line directly under Woolley Edge services, a motorway service station on the M1 motorway, and under the motorway itself
Haigh (Closed)
Darton
here was Silkstone Junction for the freight line to Silkstone.
Barnsley: formerly Barnsley Exchange, traffic arrived not only from Leeds but via the Great Central Railway line from Penistone. This is nowadays known as the Penistone Line.

Stations from here to Sheffield are also on the Penistone line:

Swaithe Viaduct – carries the line over the Worsborough Branch of the Great Central.
Wombwell
Elsecar was Elsecar & Hoyland
Wentworth – also known as Wentworth & Hoyland Common and Wentworth & Tankersley. (Closed)
Chapeltown: formerly Chapeltown South to distinguish from Chapeltown Central on the former South Yorkshire Railway, later G.C.R. line. Chapeltown station was rebuilt nearer to the town centre roundabout in the 1970s as the first railway project of the, then, new South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Authority. Much of the original remains.

From here the two railways – MidR and GCR had parallel lines to Sheffield. The latter line is closed and lifted.

Ecclesfield – known as Ecclesfield West to distinguish from Ecclesfield East on the former South Yorkshire Railway, later G.C.R. line. (Closed)
Meadowhall: partly built on the site of Wincobank and Meadow Hall
Brightside (Closed)
Attercliffe Road (Closed)
Sheffield Midland station (also served by the Wakefield and Dearne Valley lines)