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Kirklees Light Railway


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The Kirklees Light Railway is a 3 12-mile (5.6 km) long 15 in (381 mm) gauge minimum gauge railway in Kirklees metropolitan borough, West Yorkshire, Northern England.

First opened on 19 October 1991, the KLR runs along the trackbed of the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway's now long closed/former branch line, from the village of Clayton West via Skelmanthorpe to the village Shelley Woodhouse (a few yards close to the former Clayton West Junction 12 mile (0.80 km), near Shepley) on the Penistone Line from Huddersfield to Sheffield, (via Penistone and Barnsley).

Source: Wikipedia

Gauge: 15 inch

Length: 3¾ miles

Stations: 4

Type: Narrow Gauge Railway

Location: Park Mill Way, Clayton West, Huddersfield

Postcode: HD8 9XJ

Website: kirkleeslightrailway.com

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