Editing Hallam Line (section)

==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 (Great Britain)|Great Northern Railway]] (GNR) joint: it was a direct connection to [[Wakefield]] via [[Rothwell, West Yorkshire|Rothwell]]
* '''{{rws|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 '''{{rws|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.
* '''{{rws|Normanton}}'''
* here the MidR main line to Sheffield branched off: our route now uses the L&YR metals 
* '''{{rws|Wakefield Kirkgate}}''' (Also served by the [[Pontefract Line|Pontefract]] and [[Huddersfield line]]s)
* [[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
* {{rws|Haigh}} (Closed)
* '''{{rws|Darton}}'''
* here was ''Silkstone Junction'' for the freight line to [[Silkstone]]. 
* '''[[Barnsley Interchange|Barnsley]]:''' formerly {{rws|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.
* '''{{rws|Wombwell}}'''
* '''{{rws|Elsecar}}''' was ''Elsecar & Hoyland''
* {{rws|Wentworth}} – also known as ''Wentworth & Hoyland Common'' and ''Wentworth & Tankersley''. (Closed)
* '''{{rws|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 West railway station|Ecclesfield]] – known as ''Ecclesfield West'' to distinguish from Ecclesfield East on the former South Yorkshire Railway, later G.C.R. line. (Closed)
* '''[[Meadowhall Interchange|Meadowhall]]:''' partly built on the site of ''[[Wincobank railway station|Wincobank and Meadow Hall]]''
* {{rws|Brightside}} (Closed)
* {{rws|Attercliffe Road}} (Closed)
* '''[[Sheffield Midland station]]''' (also served by the [[Wakefield line|Wakefield]] and [[Dearne Valley line|Dearne Valley]] lines)

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Leeds RJD 40.jpg|Railway lines in Leeds in 1913
Cutsyke, Crofton, Normanton, Altofts, Methley, Lofthouse, Oakenshaw & Wakefield RJD 52.jpg|Railway lines through Methley, Castleford, Normanton, Wakefield in 1912
Barnsley, Penistone, Batley RJD 3.jpg|Railway lines through Barnsley in 1912
Brightside, Shefield & Blackburn Valley Treeton RJD 67.jpg|Railway lines in Sheffield in 1912
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