No.1 Enginehouse

The mineral railway between Hope and Caphouse Pits of Denby Grange Collieries and the staithe at Calder Grove on the Calder and Hebble Navigation, and the Wakefield and Barnsley Railway, was completed in 1854. The upper sections included four inclines with two steam hauling engines. The No.1 enginehouse held a 36" vertical cylinder steam engine that hauled loaded wagons, two at a time from the Hope Pit. The line then descended towards Denby Grange Pit and the loaded wagons went down under gravity. Today the line of the railway is a road and only the foundations of the enginehouse and the brick chimney remain.