Sheffield-London train service plans revealed by FirstGroup

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[GBM]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-67891067

A new, faster train service between Sheffield and London could be launched in the second half of next year.

Transport company FirstGroup plans to operate two daily return trips from Sheffield to London King's Cross via Retford, Worksop and Woodhouse.

It is part of its Hull Trains business, and would create competition for East Midlands Railway (EMR^» (East Midlands Railway, also known as EMT^» (East Midlands Trains - about) (East Midlands Trains - about)).
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[Mark A]

The BBC^» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page) article's done a bit of a copy and paste on the intermediate stations served, Woodhouse being close to Sheffield and the DM^▸ (Dilton Marsh) having plonked it down in North London.

Mark

[IndustryInsider]

An interesting proposal.  Worksop is certainly large enough to warrant a better service.  Though they will do well to reduce the journey time of the current service from Sheffield to St. Pancras by more than a few minutes. 

Another station joining the small list that would have departures to London departing from opposite directions…Oxford, Exeter St. Davids and Edinburgh Waverley being  others (are there any more?).

[jamestheredengine]

An interesting proposal.  Worksop is certainly large enough to warrant a better service.  Though they will do well to reduce the journey time of the current service from Sheffield to St. Pancras by more than a few minutes. 

Another station joining the small list that would have departures to London departing from opposite directions…Oxford, Exeter St. Davids and Edinburgh Waverley being  others (are there any more?).

Margate, Broadstairs, Ramsgate. Dover Priory. Cosham, Portchester, Fareham.

[grahame]

Another station joining the small list that would have departures to London departing from opposite directions…Oxford, Exeter St. Davids and Edinburgh Waverley being  others (are there any more?).

I love a challenge .... Teddington, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, Slade Green, Barnhurst

[brooklea]

Another station joining the small list that would have departures to London departing from opposite directions…Oxford, Exeter St. Davids and Edinburgh Waverley being  others (are there any more?).

I love a challenge .... Teddington, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, Slade Green, Barnhurst

Yeovil Pen Mill

[PrestburyRoad]

On a smaller scale, and no longer applicable since its transfer to the Overground: all the intermediate stations on the South London Line, with its early overhead electrification and latterly its 2-EPBs shuttling between London Bridge and Victoria.

[grahame]

On a smaller scale, and no longer applicable since its transfer to the Overground: all the intermediate stations on the South London Line, with its early overhead electrification and latterly its 2-EPBs shuttling between London Bridge and Victoria.

Yep, I had wondered about Nunhead and Peckham Rye - however, isn't the line physically broken as well at Battersea Park now?

[Electric train]

An interesting proposal.  Worksop is certainly large enough to warrant a better service.  Though they will do well to reduce the journey time of the current service from Sheffield to St. Pancras by more than a few minutes. 

Another station joining the small list that would have departures to London departing from opposite directions…Oxford, Exeter St. Davids and Edinburgh Waverley being  others (are there any more?).

Ramsgate.  Before reisignalling it used to have 2 UP lines signalled in opposite directions London Victoria in one direction and London Charing Cross in the other

[brooklea]

Haymarket and Leicester are two more examples.

[rogerw]

Not forgetting Westbury

[eightonedee]

...or indeed (if you stretch opposite to mean "different") - Reading!

[brooklea]

...or indeed (if you stretch opposite to mean "different") - Reading!

Too big a ‘stretch’ for my OCD, that one

I will add Sunderland to the list.

[PrestburyRoad]

Quote from: PrestburyRoad on Today at 02:01:30 pm
On a smaller scale, and no longer applicable since its transfer to the Overground: all the intermediate stations on the South London Line, with its early overhead electrification and latterly its 2-EPBs shuttling between London Bridge and Victoria.

Yep, I had wondered about Nunhead and Peckham Rye - however, isn't the line physically broken as well at Battersea Park now?

Yes - I believe that that route through into Victoria is now broken, and one of the former South London Line platforms at Battersea Park is now disused and its track has been disconnected.

[Richard Fairhurst]

On a smaller scale, and no longer applicable since its transfer to the Overground: all the intermediate stations on the South London Line, with its early overhead electrification and latterly its 2-EPBs shuttling between London Bridge and Victoria.

If we're doing "no longer applicable"... Charlbury, Kingham, Moreton-in-Marsh, Evesham, Worcester Shrub Hill.

(There was a 1980s Saturday service that ran Paddington-Oxford-Worcester-Birmingham-Banbury-Oxford-Paddington, and another the other way round.)