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A poetry competition is now open for the Sheaf & Porter River Trust's daylighting project on Sheffield Station Platform 5a, which was recently featured on Yesterday Channel's 'The Architecture the Railways Built'. If anyone would like to submit a river based 'Haiku, please follow the link to...

Network Rail / East Midlands Train are already supportive of converting it from wood to metal grating. We're currently in the long paperwork stages but the design has been accepted in principle (I think!) It's removable so it can still be used as an access point.

We decided it was much easier to paint the road blue! https://www.facebook.com/SheafAndPorterRiversTrust/photos/a.1250686408473029/1250691475139189/?type=3&theater The painting was more about raising awareness. The lightwell project is to improve fishpassage along the river under the station...

There's an up to date video of the tours we run if anyone wants to see fully under the station. The more impressive 'Megatron' arch is away from the station at Exchange Street and was designed to carry trams over the river.

Hello, The Sheaf and Porter Rivers Trust are applying to Network Rail/East Midlands Railway to replace a wooden access cover with a steel grate and add some information boards to where the River Sheaf and Porter Brook meet under platform 5a at Sheffield Station. Someone raised an interesting...

Hello, a very random question. I am involved in the Sheaf and Porter River Trust in Sheffield. The river sheaf runs under Sheffield station in a system on culverts at the moment. While we are pushing for deculverting of the river in other areas, the railway station prevents any major changes in...