The route was extended in 1909 to the bungalow of the farm, while a large part of the circle and the wye were dismantled.

[2] After Charles William Bartholomew had died in 1919, his widow still used the trains occasionally "on high days and holidays", which were otherwise stored in a three-track locomotive and wagon shed.

[2] The Cagney steam locomotive and possibly Petrolia and some of the rails were sold in 1936 to the Deans Mill Railway.

Justice of the Peace Dorothy Elliot, a longtime family friend and secretary of the Wombwell Colliery, acquired in 1942, under dubious circumstances, the remaining wagons and probably also some track material.

[2] The main line was used from 1942 to about 1944 with manually pushed V-skip trucks to transport coke to the estate's power plant.

The property was initially sold to the Hesketh family in 1949, but subsequently changed ownership several times.