The Penistone Line is operated by Northern Trains in the West Yorkshire Metro and Travel South Yorkshire areas of northern England. It connects Huddersfield and Sheffield via Penistone and Barnsley, serving many rural communities. Metrocards (Zone 5) can be used for travel between Huddersfield and Denby Dale and intermediate stations. Line details Huddersfield–Penistone The first section of line between and was opened on 1 July 1850 by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR). From the joint L&YR/London and North Western Railway Huddersfield station, trains ran south to Springwood Junction (south of Huddersfield) on the London and North Western Railway Leeds–Manchester main line, where the L&YR line began; from there the route was as follows: Springwood Tunnel Meltham Branch Junction was the junction for the now disused Meltham branch line Lockwood Viaduct Robin Hood Tunnel Honley Tunnel was the junction for the now closed Holmfirth Branch Line. Thurstonland Tunnel also serves Shelley Clayton West Junction for the now closed Clayton West branch line Clayton West Junction signal box Cumberworth Tunnel Denby Dale also serves Upper Cumberworth and Lower Cumberworth, and was originally Denby Dale & Cumberworth Denby Dale Viaduct Wellhouse Tunnel Penistone Viaduct The station was opened with the line; in 1874, a joint L&YR/Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (GCR from 1899) station was built to replace the original M.S.& L.R. Penistone station which served only the line to Manchester. This line was closed to passenger traffic on 5 January 1970 and completely 11 years later. The southern part of that section follows the upper reaches of the River Don. Penistone–Barnsley–Sheffield At Penistone, the route joins the former Great Central Railway (GCR) line from Manchester via the Woodhead Tunnel, travelling eastwards. It deviates from the former main line towards Sheffield Victoria at a point once known as Barnsley Junction, and heads towards that town beyond which it takes a circuitous route via Wombwell before going south to Sheffield. The route is as follows: Penistone : the junction here was originally known as Huddersfield Junction. junction, originally Barnsley Junction, with the direct line to that town and West Silkstone Junction, a few miles further, via Worsborough to Wombwell and the Wath marshalling yard (freight-only) (closed) (was Silkstone: the station was re-opened when the direct line to Sheffield closed and trains diverted via Barnsley on 16 May 1983) (as for Silkstone – a re-opened station) (closed) the line then descends steeply, latterly at