Horbury West Curve

The Horbury West Curve was a railway line in West Yorkshire, England. It connected the Huddersfield line to the from Leeds to Manchester, and the Hallam line from Leeds to Sheffield, forming a link between the East-West and North-South lines in the region. It ran between the L&YR's Horbury and Ossett and Crigglestone West stations.
History
The Horbury West curve was built by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in 1902. A tunnel took the line under what is now the Wakefield line. Freight services commenced on the 2 of March, that year, with passenger services following on the 1 of July that year. Traffic on the line began to wane after WW2, and British Rail closed the line to passengers in 1961. Freight services continued until 1991, and the line was used by the Royal Train in its final decades. The line was then cut off from the other lines in 1991.
The Line Today
The line is now overgrown, but the track is still largely extant. 40 yards of track in the tunnel were dismantled, but aside from that, large sections of track survive. Neither terminus survives to this day, but plans for an Ossett railway station are regularly discussed. Since the closure, Ossett has been the largest town without a railway station

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