Shelley railway station

For the closed station in Australia, see Shelley railway station, Victoria.

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.

Shelley
Station on heritage railway
Approaching the turntable at Shelley station
General information
Location	Shelley, Kirklees England
Coordinates	53.5873°N 1.6855°W / 53.5873; -1.6855
Grid reference	SE208101
Operated by	Whistlestop Valley
Platforms	1
Key dates
May 1997	opened

Kirklees South Lines
To Heckmondwike To Dewsbury and Wakefield To Calderdale Cooper Bridge Bradley Deighton (1982– ) Deighton (1871–1930) Kirkheaton Newtown goods Huddersfield Fenay Bridge and Lepton Longwood and Milnsbridge Lockwood Golcar Kirkburton Netherton Berry Brow Slaithwaite Healey House Meltham Honley Marsden Brockholes To Saddleworth Thongsbridge Stocksmoor Holmfirth Shepley Denby Dale Shelley To Penistone Skelmanthorpe Cuckoos Nest Clayton West

History

The original standard gauge line was opened by the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway as part of their 3.5 miles (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

• https://web.archive.org/web/20080612172729/http://www.kirkleeslightrailway.com/content/home.php

Preceding station	Heritage railways			Following station
Terminus		Whistlestop Valley		Skelmanthorpe