Notes: Intermediate station on a short branch to Clayton West. Click here for a full history of the Clayton West branch.

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

Although the new station used the original site, the original platform and station building was demolished and a new lower and shorter platform was built.

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

See Kirklees Light Railway web site