Middlestown Junction – Savile Town 2.5 miles (4 km)
Mirfield – Newtown 4.5 miles (7.2 km)
Track gauge
1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
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Royston to Thornhill line (and branches)
Legend
To Stalybridge
Huddersfield
Huddersfield Viaduct
Huddersfield Gas Works
Newtown Yard
Hillhouse Yard
Red Doles Junction
Kirkburton branch
Deighton
Bradley railway station
Calder Valley Line
Bradley Viaduct
Heaton Lodge Junction
Leeds New Line
Mirfield
Spen Valley Line
Thornhill LNW Junction
Ravensthorpe
To Dewsbury
Thornhill station
Dewsbury Savile Town Goods
Tunnel
To Dewsbury
Middlestown Junction
Thornhill Midland Junction
Horbury Viaduct
Middlestown station
Healey Mills Yard
To Barnsley
Former Horbury Curve
A645 Road
To Barnsley
Hallam Line
To Wakefield Kirkgate
M1 Motorway
Crigglestone Tunnel
To Leeds
Crigglestone East station
Royston Junction
Royston & Notton
To Cudworth and Sheffield
The Royston to Thornhill line was a Midland Railway venture constructed in West Yorkshire, England, that had the intent to allow trains to travel from Sheffield to Bradford without going through Leeds. The scheme, which was promoted as the West Riding Lines, would have travelled underneath Bradford city centre in a long tunnel and ended up in the Aire Valley providing a through line across Bradford. In the event, only the section from Royston to Thornhill, a smaller branch to a goods station at Dewsbury Savile Town, and a longer branch from Mirfield to Huddersfield were ever built. By the late 1960s, the lines had all been closed, however, the viaducts at Bradley, Crigglestone, and Horbury still remain.
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