A Bridge Too Many?

        Dore and Totley Station in 1906



Extract from Totley Independent, December 1985/January 1986

The latest indignity bestowed upon Dore and Totley Railway Station occurred on November 3rd, when British Rail removed the footbridge that crossed the Peak line to the now discussed central platform.

The bridge had been offered to the Peak Railway Society for an amount in the region of £1,000. The Society set about trying to raise the cash by searching for a sponsor, to enable the bridge to be re-erected at the Steam Centre Museum at Buxton. But after a short period, with no sponsor found, British Rail set about dismantling the bridge which could well end up as scrap.

The bridge was erected in 1903 and replaced an earlier footbridge which had much a larger lattice girder construction. When the line was widened between 1901 and 1903, the later footbridge was built to connect the existing platforms to the two added on the east side.

It is with sadness that we report the "passing" of the bridge and Harry Woffinden's drawing records in the pages of the Independent, another little piece of of lost heritage.