Tunnels and Trains

'Nellie' hauled wagons containing waste; later transfered to Thomas Oliver's contract for the building of the Great Central London Extension

Making No. 2 airshaft

Probably No. 5 shaft workings; the huts housed the winding gear and was probably used by the navvies to live in.

Totley Tunnel navvies, 1893

Midland Railway Company directors trip 10 August 1893, (c) National Railway Museum and SSPL

Midland Railway Company directors trip 10 August 1893, (c) National Railway Museum and SSPL

Midland Railway Company directors trip 10 August 1893, (c) National Railway Museum and SSPL

The Padley Wood end circa 1893, (c) National Railway Museum and SSPL

Totley Tunnel, 1894

Accident at Dore & Totley Station 9 October 1907

Accident at Dore & Totley Station 9 October 1907

Guarding the tunnel in August 1939

Signalman at Dore & Totley, 1938, (c) National Railway Museum and SSPL

Approaching Dore & Totley West signal box

Totley Tunnel East signal box, 1984

Dore and Totley Station 

Dore and Totley Station amd Ladies Spring Wood

Dore and Totley Station and Twentywell Lane

Bradway Bank and West View Cottage

Grindleford Station, 1920s (photo lent to THG by Bill Glossop)

Grindleford Station and west portal of Totley Tunnel

Hathersage Station

Bamford Station in 1956

Cowburn Tunnel west portal, taken between 1884 and 1886. The steeply inclined railway line rising from the left of the tunnel entrance is a Midland Railway line taking supplies to Cowburn moor where the main shaft was being sunk

Bradway Tunnel, northern portal

Dore Tunnel, east portal

Whitaker's steam navvy, pictured here near Rugby, possibly the same one that was used in the excavation of the cutting between Dore & Totley Station and the Totley Tunnel.

Totley Tunnel east portal, Totley Grove

No. 1 Airshaft, off Penny Lane, north side still had its pepperpot in November 2013

No. 2 Airshaft, corner of Strawberry Lee Lane and Lane Head Road

No. 3 Airshaft between Strawberry Lee Lane, south side, and Moss Road, north side

No. 4 Airshaft, off Moss Road, south side

No. 5 Airshaft, on Totley Moor

Totley Tunnel west portal, Padley Wood

Letter from Thomas Oliver (junior?) to J.G. Edwards, 5 Nov 1889.

Plan of the location of workmen's house, where Ladyspring Drive now stands

Plan of the location of the contractors' offices, where Mercia Motors now stands

Plan of the location of 5 workmens' cottages, opposite airshaft number 4

Mr Milner's signature

Views Upon the Dore and Chinley Railway By Edward Bradbury (aka Strephon), The Sheffield Weekly Telegraph, Saturday 2 August 1884.

Views Upon the Dore and Chinley Railway By Edward Bradbury (aka Strephon), The Sheffield Weekly Telegraph, Saturday 2 August 1884.

Views Upon the Dore and Chinley Railway By Edward Bradbury (aka Strephon), The Sheffield Weekly Telegraph, Saturday 2 August 1884.

Views Upon the Dore and Chinley Railway By Edward Bradbury (aka Strephon), The Sheffield Weekly Telegraph, Saturday 2 August 1884.

Views Upon the Dore and Chinley Railway By Edward Bradbury (aka Strephon), The Sheffield Weekly Telegraph, Saturday 2 August 1884.