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Chapeltown railway station, originally known as Chapeltown South, is a
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Chapeltown railway station, originally known as Chapeltown South, is a railway station
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serves the Sheffield
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suburb of Chapeltown in South Yorkshire
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, England
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. The station is north of Sheffield
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on the Hallam and Penistone Line
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s.
History
The present station was the first to be opened under the governance of theSouth Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive
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in 1984; the original station, just over nearer to Barnsley, closed at the same time. The platforms, shown in the photograph of the old station looking towards the new station just visible in the distance, were retained, the Barnsley-bound platform being used as a walkway to connect the original access to the new station.
CCTV was installed in March 2008 for the purposes of crime prevention. Improvements to the station included new signs, lighting, nosing on the steps, and for the first time, installation of passenger information display screens (passenger information system
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) to provide real-time service information.
The station featured in an episode of the 8th season of the BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC
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...Great British Railway Journeys
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in January 2017 - presenter Michael Portillo
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began the third leg of his journey from Blackpool to Harwich there, visiting local beauty spot Wharncliffe Crags
Wharncliffe Crags is a gritstone escarpment or edge situated approximately north-west of the city of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England. It is a geological Site of Special Scientific Interest.
Overview
The edge, which is characterised as ...
before later rejoining the train at the station to travel on to Sheffield, Conisbrough
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...
and Doncaster
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.
Facilities
The concrete platforms each have a "bus stop" style waiting shelter, along with timetable information boards, CIS displays and bench seating; a customer help point is located on platform 2. Though the station is unmanned, a self-service ticket machine is provided for travellers to buy them prior to boarding or collect advance purchase tickets. The station is not listed as accessible on theNational Rail
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website, but there is step-free access to the southbound side via the supermarket car park and along the pathway from Sussex Road northbound (along the old station platform).
Services
Services run twice an hour Monday to Saturday toSheffield
Sheffield is a city in South Yorkshire, England, whose name derives from the River Sheaf which runs through it. The city serves as the administrative centre of the City of Sheffield. It is historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire a ...
(hourly on Sundays) and hourly to on the Penistone Line and on the Hallam Line respectively (two-hourly Sundays).GB eNRT, December 2018 Edition, Table 34
See also
*Chapeltown Central railway station
Chapeltown Central railway station was situated on the former South Yorkshire Railway's Blackburn Valley line between Ecclesfield East and Westwood. The station which was also known as Chapeltown and Thorncliffe was intended to serve Chapelto ...
, on the Blackburn Valley line
The South Yorkshire Railway was a railway company with lines in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England.
Initially promoted as the South Yorkshire Coal Railway in 1845, the railway was enabled by an act of 1847 as the South Yorkshire Doncaster and ...
, about half a mile north, closed in 1954
References
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