:''High Royds'', a small mining community near

Barnsley Barnsley () is a market town in South Yorkshire, England. It is the main settlement of the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley and the fourth largest settlement in South Yorkshire. The town's population was 71,422 in 2021, while the wider boroug ...

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is not to be confused with High Royds, near

Menston Menston is a village and civil parish in the City of Bradford in the county of West Yorkshire, England. Along with Burley in Wharfedale, most of Menston is within Wharfedale Ward in the metropolitan borough of Bradford. The remainder of Me ...

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, served by the Wharfedale Line and the site of a former mental health institution. High Royds railway station was situated on the

South Yorkshire Railway The South Yorkshire Railway was a railway company with lines in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. Initially promoted as the South Yorkshire Coal Railway in 1845, the railway was enabled by the South Yorkshire, Doncaster and Goole Railway Ac ...

's Blackburn Valley line between and . The station opened on 4 September 1854 and closed just two years later, one of the most short-lived stations in the county. The station was situated at the small settlement of Shortwood, between Birdwell and Upper Hoyland

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*"The South Yorkshire Railway", D.L.Franks, Turntable Enterprises, 1971. Disused railway stations in Barnsley Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1854 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1856 Former South Yorkshire Railway stations {{Yorkshire-Humber-railstation-stub