Horbury railway works

Horbury, near Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England was the site of two wagon works constructed during the Victorian period of industrialisation.

The factory closed in the second half of the twentieth century and the site is used as Quarry Hill Industrial Estate.

Charles Roberts & Co. Ltd. was established in 1856 in Wakefield and moved to Horbury Junction in 1873[4] and registered in 1899 as a wagon building business[5] located at the junction of routes of the Manchester and Leeds Railway (present Caldervale Line) and the Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Wakefield, Huddersfield and Goole Railway Company (leased and later transferred to the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway[6]) (present Hallam Line).

[11] Bombardier closed the plant in 2005, as part of number of closures due to overcapacity throughout Europe and North America in its transportation division.

[14] During the Second World War the factory was involved in the production of the Churchill Tank.