Calder Valley line The Rishworth branch was built in the Ryburn valley by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway and linked Sowerby Bridge with Rishworth and served the villages of Triangle, Ripponden, Barkisland and Rishworth.

The branch line was closed to passengers on 8 July 1929.

The line left Sowerby Bridge a little to the east of the station, diverging south.

It passed through the 593 yd (542 m) Scar Head tunnel, rising on a 1 in 107 gradient to Triangle.

A section of the line south west from Ripponden village is a permissive footpath.