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 high pedestrian road viaduct linking cleckheaton town centre with the station and goods yard. the gomersal tunnel is long and around 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.