SHEFFIELD 150
Mar 02, 2020
3 minutes
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Paul Bickerdyke
SHEFFIELD Midland station celebrated its 150th anniversary on January 31, when East Midlands Railway laid on a morning of celebrations on the main concourse. The station was the last to open in the city centre but, with the closure of the others decades ago, it has been in use for the longest.
The city’s first station was built at Wicker in 1838 by the Sheffield & Rotherham Railway (later part of the Midland Railway). The line ran to Rotherham Westgate,
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