Editing Skelmanthorpe (section)

== Transport ==

===Railway===

For more than 100 years (from 1879 until 1986), Skelmanthorpe had a [[Skelmanthorpe railway station|railway station]] on the [[Clayton West railway station|Clayton West branch line]] that ran along the northern edge of the village. The line was closed to passengers in 1983 and the track was removed in 1986.

The disused trackbed of the former branch line was later used for the [[Kirklees Light Railway]], a [[minimum-gauge railway]] designed as a [[tourist attraction]], which opened as far as Skelmanthorpe in 1992.<ref name=rail>{{cite web | title=Station Name:Skelmanthorpe | work=Disused Stations | url=http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/stations/s/skelmanthorpe/index.shtml | accessdate=17 July 2017}}</ref>

The nearest railway stations now are [[Denby Dale railway station|Denby Dale]] (2.2 miles) and [[Shepley railway station|Shepley]] (3.1 miles); both stations are on the [[Penistone Line]] with trains in both directions to [[Huddersfield railway station|Huddersfield]], [[Barnsley Interchange|Barnsley]] and [[Sheffield railway station|Sheffield]]

===Buses===
Skelmanthorpe is served by bus services to [[Holmfirth]] and [[Wakefield]] on the X1 service and [[Huddersfield]] and [[Denby Dale]] on the [[D1 Denby Darts]] service. [[Team Pennine]] is the bus company that runs these services through the village.

===Roads===
The main road through the village is the [[B roads in Zone 6 of the Great Britain numbering scheme|B6116]], Which connects to the [[A629 road|A629]] and [[A636 road|A636]].