Sheffield Midland Station

There's almost as much underneath...

You almost certainly know it simply as Sheffield Station…but the ‘Midland’ part very much tells a story. The station was opened on February 1st 1870, and it marked the arrival of the Midland Railway in Sheffield which had been long campaigned for, and the direct link south which it provided. It has outlived three earlier central Sheffield stations since replacing the old Wicker Station, which had previously connected the town with the original route of the Midland Railway at Rotherham. For a long time Sheffield Midland was one of two main stations in the city centre, alongside Sheffield Victoria (which itself had replaced Bridgehouses). It had been considered too difficult and/or expensive to connect the original Midland Railway line with Sheffield due to the topography, but a new route to connect the railway with the centre of Sheffield was mooted in the late 1850s, and finally approved by Parliament in 1864 - paving the way for the station we know today.