Hazlehead Bridge railway station was a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...

on the

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's Woodhead Line. It served villages scattered over a wide area of

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, and was adjacent to the bridge over the Huddersfield Road.

History

Hazlehead Bridge Sheffield - Manchester express geograph-2295192-by-Ben-Brooksbank

The eastern section of the

, between Sheffield (Bridgehouses) and , was opened on 14 July 1845, but originally there was no station between and Dunford Bridge; it had been intended to provide one at Hazlehead Bridge, with bus connections to

Huddersfield Huddersfield is a market town in the Kirklees district in West Yorkshire, England. It is the administrative centre and largest settlement in the Kirklees district. The town is in the foothills of the Pennines. The River Holme's confluence into ...

, but the approach roads were not suitable, and the buses ran to Dunford Bridge instead. Following petitions from local inhabitants, a station named ''Hazlehead'' was opened on 1 May 1846 (as was a station at Dog Lane, near

Dukinfield Dukinfield is a town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, on the south bank of the River Tame opposite Ashton-under-Lyne, east of Manchester. At the 2011 Census, it had a population of 19,306. Within the boundaries of the historic co ...

), and the Huddersfield omnibus served Hazlehead station from August. The original station was closed in a cost-cutting measure, along with Dukinfield Dog Lane.

Oxspring Oxspring is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. At the 2001 census it had a population of 1,048, increasing to 1,225 at the 2011 Census. The civil parish includes the hamlets of Clay ...

and

Thurgoland Thurgoland (, ) is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England, on the A629 road. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 1,801, increasing to 1,969 at the 2011 Census. Bu ...

on 1 November 1847. It was reopened at the start of August 1850, and renamed ''Hazlehead Bridge'' on 1 November that year;

Bradshaw's Railway Guide ''Bradshaw's'' was a series of railway timetables and travel guide books published by W.J. Adams and later Henry Blacklock, both of London. They are named after founder George Bradshaw, who produced his first timetable in October 1839. Althou ...

continued to use the old name for a few months, but only on the table dealing with down trains (i.e. towards

Manchester Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The t ...

). At the station, the line fell in the Sheffield direction on a gradient of 1 in 124 (0.81%). The station was built in stone with the main buildings on the Sheffield-bound (Up) platform and a waiting shelter on the other. A high signal box of the

Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway The Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (MS&LR) was formed in 1847 when the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway joined with authorised but unbuilt railway companies, forming a proposed network from Manchester to Grimsb ...

's early type, almost square with hipped roof, controlled the station and the entry to the branch line which served the Hepworth Iron Company's works at

Crow Edge Crow Edge is a hamlet in Dunford Civil parishes in South Yorkshire, civil parish, situated on the A616 road, A616, two miles southeast of Hepworth, West Yorkshire in the :en:Barnsley (borough), metropolitan borough of Barnsley in the metropolita ...

. An accident took place at the station on 20 December 1907 when the lean-to building added to the station only a few years earlier was demolished. The station closed to passenger traffic on 6 March 1950 and to goods traffic in May 1964.

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Hazlehead Bridge station on navigable 1947 O. S. map
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hazlehead Bridge Railway Station Disused railway stations in Barnsley Former Great Central Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1846 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1847 Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1850 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1950 Woodhead Line 1846 establishments in England