Station Name: CLAYTON WEST STATION

 

[Source: Nick Catford]


Date opened: 1.9.1879
Location: On the west side of High Street
Company on opening: Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Date closed to passengers: 24.1.1983
Date closed completely: 24.1.1983
Company on closing: British Rail (Eastern Region)
Present state: A section of platform and one end wall of the station building are the only remains.
County: Yorkshire
OS Grid Ref: SE259113
Date of visit: August 1983

Notes: Although the track was lifted during 1986 a local preservation group were able to lease the trackbed from Kirklees Council with a view to building a 15" gauge line along the route. In February 1989, an application was made for a light railway order which was granted on the 27th September 1991 with the first 1 mile section of track from Clayton West to a new halt at Cuckoos Nest.

A new station was built at Clayton West was on a slight different site. A section of the original platform and the end wall of the station building still survive alongside a new engine shed.

On Boxing Day 1992 the line was extended to a new terminus at Skelmanthorpe.

Four years later the line was extended to a new terminus at Shelley at the junction with the Huddersfield - Sheffield main line.

Click here for a full history of the Clayton West branch.

See Kirklees Light Railway web site

 

Clayton West Station in 1979
P
hoto by Andrew Ripley




Clayton West Station in August 1983
P
hoto by Nick Catford

The new Clayton West Station. The end wall of the original station building and a section of platform can be seen to the right of the engine shed.
Photo by Vincent Sanders (more pictures will be found on his web site)

Clayton West Station in August 1983
P
hoto by Nick Catford



[Source: Nick Catford]

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