Woodburn Junction is a railway junction in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, situated abouit half way between Sheffield Victoria and Darnall. Sheffield ( is a city and Metropolitan borough in South Yorkshire, England Divisions and environs South Yorkshire is divided into four local government districts they are the City of Sheffield, the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster Sheffield Victoria was the main Sheffield Railway station on the Great Central Railway, between Chesterfield and Penistone. Darnall railway station was built to serve Darnall, a community about 3 miles from the centre of Sheffield, South Yorkshire and which later became
The junction is situated about 1 mile east of Sheffield Victoria and is controlled from a portable signal cabin on the ‘down’ (Sheffield bound) side of the line below where the line is crossed by a road bridge, which carries Woodbourn Road (Note the difference in spelling).
From the beginning
The first junction at this point was built when the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, having taken over the South Yorkshire Railway, constructed a line to Rotherham, opening on 1 August 1864. The Manchester Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (MS&LR was formed by amalgamation in 1847 For the Preservation Society South Yorkshire Railway Co Ltd see Heritage Shunters Trust The South Yorkshire Railway was a railway company Rotherham Central railway station is in Rotherham, South Yorkshire. Year 1864 ( MDCCCLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Traffic from the South Yorkshire Railway’s Barnsley line joined the Rotherham line at Tinsley South Junction and both services entered Sheffield Victoria through this junction.
The L.N.W.R. came to Sheffield in 1895 when they opened a goods depot, known as City Goods, in the Nunnery area. The London and North Western Railway (LNWR L&NWR was a Railway company of the United Kingdom which existed between 1846 and 1922 City Goods was a goods station belonging to the London and North Western Railway, in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. The line which left the M. S. & L. went around the rear of the signal box, which controlled its junction.
New lines
In the 1940s, with the opening of Darnall engine shed a new junction, controlled by the Woodburn Junction signalman, gave access, by a flyover junction from the up goods line and egress to the down goods line. Darnall engine shed was an Engine shed in Darnall, Sheffield. In the 1960s, with the opening of the new Wholesale Markets a short spur, known as the Parkway Goods branch, was opened, again controlled from Woodburn Junction box.
Rationalisation
From November 1991 the layout was reduced in keeping with the requirements of traffic, the Rotherham/Tinsley Yard line being reduced to single track. Year 1991 ( MCMXCI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar. In early 1992 both Shepcote Lane and Tinsley East Junction signal boxes were closed and the controlling panel installed in Woodburn Junction box, still, at that time, the old brick based, wooden box of Great Central vintage. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar)
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