Millhouses and Ecclesall
Site of the station (2008)
General information
Location	Millhouses, City of Sheffield England
Coordinates	53°20′42″N 1°29′42″W / 53.3450°N 1.4950°W / 53.3450; -1.4950
Grid reference	SK337832
Platforms	2/4
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Pre-grouping	Midland Railway
Post-grouping	LMSR London Midland Region of British Railways
Key dates
1 February 1870	Opened as Ecclesall
1 October 1871	renamed Ecclesall and Mill Houses
1 May 1884	renamed Mill Houses and Ecclesall
1901-3	Expanded to four platforms
18 July 1932	renamed Millhouses and Ecclesall
10 June 1968	Closed [1]

Site of Millhouses and Ecclesall station shown in Sheffield

Millhouses and Ecclesall railway station was a railway station in the Millhouses district of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.

History

It was built by the Midland Railway and was designed by the company architect John Holloway Sanders^[2] and opened in 1870 called Ecclesall. This was changed, first to Ecclesall & Millhouses and later Mill Houses & Ecclesall before becoming Millhouses and Ecclesall in 1932. It was situated on the Midland Main Line between Heeley railway station and Beauchief station, and was accessed from the Archer Road overbridge, near the junction of Abbeydale Road and Millhouses Lane.

The station was opened at the same time as the main line from Chesterfield with just 2 flanking platforms. Between 1901 and 1903 the line was widened and two lines added. The station now consisted of 4 platforms with two flanking platforms and an island platform in the centre. The station buildings were situated at road level with access by steps to the island platform.

The station closed on 10 June 1968, and remained derelict for many years. The station buildings and platforms were finally removed in the 1980s, but the stationmaster's house survives as a private home.

Calls for reopening

There have been numerous plans to rebuild a station, going as far as a feasibility study in 1997,^[3] but so far none have come to fruition.

In July 2017, it was proposed by Local Enterprise Partnership that new stations should be built at Millhouses and Heeley as well as new platforms at Dore & Totley.^[4] The plans would be part of a call to have better links in South Yorkshire area as well as plans for a new Woodhead Route reopening. In 2020, local MP Olivia Blake wrote to the transport secretary asking him to consider the reopening of the station, suggesting it would reduce congestion in the area.^[5]

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