From there, the line continued north for about 2 miles (3 km), passed under the A63 road, and curved in a wide S-bend towards the tracks of the Leeds and Selby Railway, crossing Ninelands Lane and joining the main line in a trailing junction immediately east of Garforth station.

[1][2] From a junction north of Bowers, a branch of the line led west towards an opencast mine which is now the place of St Aidan's country park.

Originally built by the Leeds, Castleford and Pontefract Junction Railway (LC&PJR), prior to its opening in 1878 the NER had acquired over three quarters of the shares in the line.

[7] Whilst the line served a sparse population, its original intended purpose of moving coal kept it in traffic until the 1990s.

Since 1958, Bowers Disposal Point was the forwarding location for coal mined from the St Aidan's opencast venture.

[8] One other coal mine, Trench Colliery, was located near to Garforth and its siding faced north, so that it only traversed a small section of the line.

It has a bow string centre section with two long plate girder approach spans, supported by sets of tubular steel piers (nine on the southern side, ten on the northern).