- Broughton Lane railway station
Broughton Lane railway station was a railway station in
Sheffield ,South Yorkshire ,England . The station served the communities ofDarnall ,Attercliffe andCarbrook and was one of the those opened on1 August 1864 with the South Yorkshire Railway's extension south fromTinsley Junction toWoodburn Junction where it met theManchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway . The day the line the was opened the SYR became part of the MS&LR. This link allowed the MS&LR access to Barnsley and Rotherham from Sheffield Victoria.The station, with its main access by steps from Broughton Lane bridge, possessed two flanking platforms although was surrounded by sidings. The station closed in 1956 and there are now no signs of it ever existing. In the 1960s a new line was built from near Broughton Lane into the newly opened
Tinsley Marshalling Yard and shortly afterwards this was electrified. The site of the station is below the new Greenland Road viaduct over the line and canal near the foundations of the old bridge.Sheffield Supertram now uses the site and the nearest tram stop is near the local arena.
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