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When I last stood on this spot at Penistone station I was a 14 year-old school boy who was travellling on the Pennine Explorer railtour and took this picture...... https://www.ontheupfast.com/v/photos/21936chg/25481195204/x76016-76009-pennine-explorer-cardiff It is incredible to think that this station was once at a busy junction that carried through express trains between London and Manchester. In its later years it was an important and strategic freight route. It's interesting to consider that, if when it was electrified in 1955, it had been built to the 25Kv standard, rather than the more unusual 1.5Kv DC system then the line could still be in operation today. Indeed, there is continual talk of it partially re-openeing as the pressure builds on the remaining two trans-Pennine routes.
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