The 96-page volume, by Vic Mitchell and Keith Smith, features 120 images tracing the route from Derbyshire into South Yorkshire, taking the opening of the Sheffield & Rotherham Railway in 1838 as its starting point.
There are pictures of Sheffield’s Attercliffe Road station which closed in 1995, photos of horse-drawn carriages lined up outside the city’s Midland Station instead of taxis, and even documentary evidence of dramatic rail accidents from yesteryear.
Vic’s West Sussex-based Middleton Press has produced more than 400 albums in the same style as part of a series called 'Ultimate Railway Encyclopaedia'.
There are volumes on the Hope Valley Line, Ambergate to Buxton, Buxton to Stockport, and the Woodhead line gets its own album too.
Chesterfield to Rotherham via Sheffield is published on December 5, priced £18.95. Copies can be ordered direct from the publisher, with free postage. Visit www.middletonpress.co.uk or call 01730 813169.
1. Past the signal box
A train is pictured running in near the Chesterfield North signal box in August 1952. "The train length was often amazing in that era and the noise from the loose couplings when starting could be impressive," the book says. Photo: Middleton Press
2. Crash on the line
This accident at Tapton Junction on December 18, 1919, was due to a signalman’s error. Involved were the 4.36pm mineral train from Treeton to Toton, and the 5.20pm passenger service from Sheffield to Chesterfield. Six people were injured but there were no fatalities, an official report recorded. Photo: Middleton Press
3. Out of the tunnel
Halfway from Dronfield, trains enter Bradway Tunnel, which is one mile 266 yards long. North of it is the short 91-yard Dore Tunnel - here's a train passing its north portal in about 1935. Photo: Middleton Press
4. Heavy freight
A Freightliner train pulls out of Heeley in August 2014. Woodseats Road bridge is visible. Photo: Middleton Press