Wharncliffe travel

Does anyone know what train station is closest to Wharncliffe Woods??

Chapeltown

Don't go to wharncliffe to ride the xc alone. The trail has suffered with recent logging and isn't great over winter anyway. There was never enough money for surafcing in bulk.

If you're off to play on the dh trails etc tho, crack on they're great.

Chap is probably closest but its just as easy to get there from the main sheff station.

it's a long ride from either on a massive downhill bike though….

There was never enough money for surafcing in bulk.

There was never enough enthusiasm and support from FE to make that a possibility. I only wish the volunteers who tried to develop Wharncliffe over the last few years could have got to the stage where money was the critical issue.

Tim (SingletrAction)

Agree Tim – It could have been a mecca because the terrain there has so much potential for great climbs and descents.

Penistone station's not bad – you can go along the TPT which is fairly flat and joins the bottom fireroad. It's pretty snowy in their at the moment.

cheers guys, was toying around with taking the new blue pig over there once its built up, never been before.

i love wharncliffe, i used to ride from town centre, which took around 20ish minutes. I have to say that i have never even ridden it such a muddy place! Great fun:)

IanMmmm – Member
Agree Tim – It could have been a mecca because the terrain there has so much potential for great climbs and descents.

yep loads of potential imo shame.

Wharncliffe is fun. I had my first ever downhill ride there, pretty hardcore for a first ride but it was really good! Only did Diamondback and bits of another one, can't remember what it was called. XC wasn't bad but the dh is so much more fun.

Another vote for Penistone here – it's about 15 minutes of flat bridleway that literally links Penistone station with Wharny, and invlolves not a single bit of road. A betterer (and flatter) option than riding from town.

The long defunct Oughty Bridge and Deepcar stations are actually in the woods – now private houses passed only by a single goods train per day. But that's irrelevant information.

lovely oughtibridge spelling.

And genuine. Don't know why it was that way, but it was.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oughty_Bridge_railway_station

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oughty_Bridge_railway_station it says so on Wikipedia, so it must be true

it says so on Wikipedia, so it must be true

and to put that in context we may well find that a fat ex comedics twitters may well be used as the basis for future historical analysis

oh and for some very odd reason it was spelt Oughty Bridge on the station signs there are photos in a book* wot i read

* see 20th century

it says so on Wikipedia, so it must be true

book*

Yes, to be fair – though I linked to it – I wasn't relying on Wiki for my spelling of the village in which I live.

Interestingly I have some old Sheffield maps in which the village itself is referred to as Oughty Bridge, so the train station's chosen spelling wasn't totally random.

But this has now strayed way off topic.