Shelley railway station

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Shelley
Station on heritage railway
Approaching the turntable at Shelley Station - geograph.org.uk - 81804.jpg
Approaching the turntable at Shelley station
General information
Location Shelley, Kirklees
England
Coordinates 53°35′14″N1°41′08″W / 53.5873°N 1.6855°W / 53.5873; -1.6855
Grid reference SE208101
Operated by Whistlestop Valley
Platforms1
Key dates
May 1997 [1] opened

Shelley railway station forms the western terminus of the Whistlestop Valley and serves the village of Shelley, West Yorkshire. England. There was never a station here on the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway.

History

The original standard gauge line was opened by the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway as part of their 3+12-mile (5.6 km) branch line from Clayton West Junction on the Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction Railway (between Shepley and Denby Dale) to Clayton West. The trackbed was later rebuilt by the Kirklees Light Railway, now known as Whistlestop Valley as a minimum gauge railway.

References

  1. "KLR". whistlestopvalley.co.uk. Retrieved 4 September 2024.
Preceding station HR icon.svg   Heritage railways Following station
Terminus  Whistlestop Valley   Skelmanthorpe