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