Disused railway lines and closed stations in West Yorkshire

308 miles of disused railway
165 closed stations
69 stations open today
91 named lost lines

West Yorkshire has 308 miles of disused railway and 165 closed stations, against 69 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 2.4 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the St Dunstans N&E to Keighley Line, with 12 miles of its route inside West Yorkshire.

See West Yorkshire’s lost railways on the map

The map opens on the county with the disused lines and closed stations drawn over today’s network. Tap any closed station for its history, or any grey line for its name.

What is left of it

The 308 miles of lost railway in West Yorkshire break down as 222 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 75 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left, 11 miles with track still in place but no trains and 0.9 miles dismantled. These are OpenStreetMap’s own distinctions, made by the people who surveyed each stretch, so a line can appear under more than one state along its length.

Lost railway lines in West Yorkshire

91 named lines with disused track in the county, longest stretch first. The mileage is the part inside West Yorkshire; a line crossing the border is counted on both sides.

Line	Miles in county
St Dunstans N&E to Keighley Line	12
Heaton Lodge and Wortley Line	11
Leeds to Wetherby Line	11
Gidersome Branch	10
Royston Branch	8.2
Cleckheaton Branch	7.5
Shipley Branch	6.4
Hull and Barnsley Railway	6.3
Standedge Tunnel	6.1
Dearne Valley Railway	5.2
Lofthouse to Methley Branch	5.0
Waterloo Main Colliery Railway	5.0
Bowers Row Opencast Branch	4.8
Beeston to Batley Branch	4.7
Wrenthorpe South Junction to Adwalton Junction Line	4.7
Healey Mills Sidings	4.7
Skipton to Ilkley Branch	4.3
Kirkburton Branch	4.3
Tapton Junction (Chesterfield) to Colne	4.0
Bramley to Pudsey and Low Moor Line	3.9
Rishworth Branch	3.8
Middleton Tramway	3.7
The Lines Way	3.5
Old Oaks to Nostell Line	3.5
Brighouse Branch	3.4
Meltham Branch Line	3.4
Otley Branch	3.0
Hunslet Branch	3.0
Halifax High Level Branch	2.6
Don Pedro Colliery	2.5
Halifax and Holmfield Branch	2.5
Newmarket Colliery Branch	2.5
Dewsbury Savile Town Branch	2.5
Liversedge Branch	2.5
Snydale Branch	2.5
Chickenley Heath Branch	2.4
Doncaster and Leeds Line	2.4
Lofthouse to Stourton Branch	2.2
Ingham's Pit	2.1
Batley to Birstall Branch	1.9

And 51 shorter stretches: Wath Branch, Wetherby Railway Path, Holmfirth Branch, Dudley Hill Branch, Manchester Victoria and Normanton Line, Stainland Branch, Ackton Hall Colliery, Featherstone Colliery, Methley and Pontefract Line, Parkhill Colliery, Queensbury Tunnel, Sharlston Colliery, St John's Colliery Railway, Farnley and Wortley Branch, Yeadon Branch, Bradford City Road Goods Branch, Dewsbury-Ossett Greenway, Leeds New Line, Otley and Ilkley Joint Railway, Beeston Colliery Branch, York and North Midland Railway, Denaby Branch, Dewsbury Market Place Branch, Holmfield to Queensbury N and E Branch, Lees Moor Tunnel, Castleford Greenway, Frickley Colliery Branch, Burley East Curve, Barnsley and Horbury Station Junction Line, Hemsworth Loop, Newtown Goods Branch, Sandal Branch, L.&N.E.R. Leeds & Wetherby, Waterloo Colliery Sidings, Castleford and Pontefract Monkhill Line, Combs Colliery, Crofton East Fork, Haigh Colliery, High Royds Hospital Railway, Wheatley Tunnel, Hartley Bank Colliery, South Elmsall Loop, Wakefield and Goole Line, Wetherby West Curve, Castleford East Branch, Adolphus Street Goods Branch, Goods Yard, Lofthouse North Curve, Milner Royd Junction and Bradford Interchange Line, Wheldale Basin and Wortley Curve.

Closed railway stations in West Yorkshire

All 165 closed and former stations in West Yorkshire, A to Z. Each name opens the map on the station; the Wikipedia link, where there is one, has its history.

Stations still open in West Yorkshire

69 stations in West Yorkshire still have a train service. The busiest are Leeds (27.3 million a year), Huddersfield (3.1 million a year), Bradford Interchange (2.4 million a year), Wakefield Westgate (2.3 million a year) and Halifax (1.8 million a year). Every one has its own page, with the stations you can reach from it directly and how often the trains run: see the A to Z of stations.

Lost railways nearby

South Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Derbyshire.

About these figures

The disused lines are the stretches OpenStreetMap records as disused, abandoned, razed or dismantled railway, measured segment by segment and given to the county each segment lies in. The closed stations are Wikidata’s record of British railway stations no longer in service, kept where they are not within a few hundred metres of a station still open. County boundaries are today’s ceremonial counties, with unitary authorities folded into the county they sit in, from the Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024). Historic county lines were different, and a closed station a mile over the border is on the neighbouring page.

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