Description
The MR’s branch from their Aire Valley line at Apperley Junction to the Otley & Ilkley Joint Railway had opened in 1865 but the station at Menston wasn’t opened until August 1875. North East of the station at Menston Junction, where there had been a short lived station, there was a spur to the Otley-Burley in Wharfedale line but this along with Otley Station and the line east to Arthington closed in 1965