Sheffield retro: 25 photos taking you back to a golden age of train travel, including lost railway stations

These photos will transport you back to a golden age of rail travel, when you could get almost anywhere in Sheffield by train.

They include a number of lost railway stations which were once part of an extensive network, built during Victorian times, connecting the city and the UK as a whole.

This retro photo gallery looks back from the era of steam trains, in the late 1800s, to the days before the Beeching cuts of the 1960s which closed numerous stations and routes across Sheffield and the rest of the UK.

The lost stations pictured include Sheffield Victoria, Millhouses and Ecclesall, Beighton, Beauchief, Tinsley, Heeley, Wadsley Bridge, and Oughtibridge.

As well as connecting passengers living in the suburbs with the city centre, the railway network played a key role in supporting Sheffield’s booming industrial sector.

At one time, a small place like Killamarsh remarkably had three railway stations.

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