Penistone station was built when the Sheffield to Manchester line came through this area in 1845. It was a busy line transporting coal to Lancashire and goods from local industry. A new passenger station was built in 1874 and the old station became a goods depot. After the closure of the Sheffield to Manchester line in 1981 this site was reused as a general storage depot. Several of the original station buildings survive alongside the disused rail line therefore legibility is significant. There is no legibility of the former strip fields however.