The Heaton Lodge and Wortley Railway was constructed by the London and North Western Railway to provide a duplicate route between Huddersfield and Leeds leaving the existing line at Heaton Lodge junction east of Huddersfield and rejoining it at Farnley junction south west of Leeds. During construction it became known as the Leeds New Line and following nationalisation it was referred to as the Spen Valley Line.
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