Editing Ossett (section)

==Transport==
The [[Roman Empire|Romans]] constructed a road from [[Halifax, West Yorkshire|Halifax]] to Wakefield, and this road became a [[Toll roads in Great Britain#Turnpikes|turnpike road]] in 1741. Its route roughly corresponds to the modern day Dewsbury Road. Streetside Post Office is a reminder of the Roman origins of the road. The [[M1 motorway]] between Junctions 40 and 42 to the east of Ossett was opened in April 1967. The stretch from junction 38 to 40 was opened in October 1968. The [[Highways Agency]] have plans to widen the M1 to 4 lanes between [[Chesterfield, Derbyshire|Chesterfield]] and Leeds. In 2005 a bus station was opened in the town built by [[West Yorkshire Metro]] replacing an earlier bus station constructed in the 1970s.

The railways arrived in Ossett in 1862 when the Bradford, Wakefield & Leeds Railway company opened a branch line to Flushdyke. The line was extended to Ossett in 1864 and then onto Dewsbury and Batley.
[[Ossett railway station]], located roughly where Southdale Gardens now is, was opened in 1889 by the [[Great Northern Railway (England)|Great Northern Railway]]. The line ran underneath Station Road and the bump in the road today is the only reminder of the bridge that used to exist there until its removal in the 1980s. The railway station closed in 1964. The town was close to four other railway stations: Chickenley Heath closed in 1911, Earlsheaton in 1953, Flushdyke closed in 1941 and [[Horbury & Ossett railway station|Horbury & Ossett]] in 1970. It is now the largest town in Yorkshire and one of the largest towns in Britain without a railway station. Railway sidings and yards are still to be found at the old Horbury & Ossett railway station site and [[Healey Mills Yard|Healey Mills Marshalling Yard]] where [[Elizabeth II|Queen Elizabeth II]] spent a night aboard the [[British Royal Train|Royal Train]] during her [[Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II|1977 Silver Jubilee]] tour.

In June 2009, the [[Rail Delivery Group|Association of Train Operating Companies]] proposed Ossett, as one of seven English towns with a strong [[business case]] for the location of a new railway station. It is likely that an unstaffed station would be erected at Healey Mills.{{ATOCConnectingCommunitiesReportS10|page=9}}

Ossett bus station is situated in the town centre next to Prospect Road ([[B6128 road|B6128]]) and Ossett Town's football ground. The bus station is managed and owned by [[West Yorkshire Metro]], and was rebuilt in 2005;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wymetro.com/News/05/050822-2.htm|title=Metro's new £1.5m Ossett Bus Station|website=West Yorkshire Metro|date=22 August 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060524081405/http://www.wymetro.com/News/05/050822-2.htm|archive-date=24 May 2006|url-status=dead}}</ref> it has six stands and a real-time information board. The main operator at the bus station is [[Arriva Yorkshire]]. Buses run around the town and regularly to [[Wakefield]] and [[Dewsbury]], and less frequently to [[Batley]].