High Royds, a small mining community near Barnsley in South Yorkshire is not to be confused with High Royds, near Menston in West Yorkshire, served by the Wharfedale Line and the site of a former mental health institution.
High Royds | |
Status: | Disused |
Borough: | Hoyland, Barnsley |
Country: | England |
Coordinates: | 53.5105°N -1.4637°W |
Grid Name: | Grid reference |
Original: | South Yorkshire Railway |
Years: | 4 September 1854 |
Events: | opened |
Years1: | 1856 |
Events1: | closed |
High Royds railway station was situated on the South Yorkshire Railway'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.