Train station in Penistone which was opened in 1874 when the previous station became a goods depot (Tracking Lives History Group 2000, 11). Penistone was the junction between the Sheffield to Manchester line and two branch lines, one to Barnsley, the other to Huddersfield. The train line through Penistone was still an important transport route when this station was built. It carried coal to the Lancashire mills and transported steel from the local Yorkshire Iron and Steel Works and livestock from the market. Previously this land was part of the enclosed strip fields around Penistone. The construction of the railway cut through this landscape and there is now no legibility of former strip enclosure.