Editing Gomersal (section)

== Railway ==
The Lower Spen area of Gomersal had a railway station, Cleckheaton Spen on the [[LNWR]] railway line diversion loop linking [[Leeds]] and [[Manchester]] and improving the main line capacity between [[Huddersfield]] and Leeds. The line was constructed between 1894 and 1902 and opened fully to passengers in 1904. It had some spectacular civil engineering for the time, including rail viaducts at [[Mirfield]] and [[Heckmondwike]], a {{convert|90|ft|m|adj=mid|-high}} pedestrian road [[viaduct]] linking Cleckheaton town centre with the station and goods yard. The Gomersal Tunnel is {{convert|890|yd|m}} long and around {{convert|30|ft|m|0}} deep, directly under the Shoulder of Mutton pub in Oxford Road at Great Gomersal (the LNWR bought the pub in 1897 in case it fell into the tunnel workings) and then the line opened into Gomersal Station in Moor Lane, a four-minute train ride from Cleckheaton Spen.

The railway closed to passengers in 1964 and goods in 1966, having had all the buildings and structures repainted and new track in 1963. In 1952, Sir [[Winston Churchill]], then Prime Minister, slept at Cleckheaton Spen sidings overnight in a special train with a heavy security cordon during election campaigning.