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| Leaving
the Woodhead line behind and proceeding up the branch to Huddersfield, Shepley station was the location where the 3½ mile single track branch to Clayton West left the main Penistone to Huddersfield route. |
The Clayton West Branch |
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following photographs were taken shortly before the
branch was closed to all traffic in 1983. Currently a section of the trackbed is used by the Kirklees Light Railway. |
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| Leaving
the Woodhead line behind and proceeding up the branch to Huddersfield, Shepley station was the location where the 3½ mile single track branch to Clayton West left the main Penistone to Huddersfield route. |
| The
official press release from British Rail which marked the
beginning of the end for the remaining portion of the Woodhead route and the Clayton West branch. |
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| Aboard
the class 101 dmu en route to Clayton West, the branch to which can just be seen in the distance diverging from the main Sheffield line towards the left. Clayton West Junction signal box is shown above and the driver collects the token from the signal man before proceeding down the branch in the lower photograph. It is also illustrated on the |
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Skelmanthorpe was the only intermediate station on the branch. |
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| The BR station nameboard at Clayton West |
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| A
year before the line was closed, a 101 stands at the
Clayton West Terminus. |
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| Another view of the same train. |
