Flushdyke Station in the 1930s-1940s with Brooke’s Mill on the left and the paddy line rail link to Gawthorpe Pit on the immediate right. The properties along the Wakefield Road at Flushdyke and Owlers Farm can also be seen on the right.

Flushdyke Station was the first station to be opened in Ossett in 1862 as a temporary terminus of the Bradford, Wakefield and Leeds railway. The line extended to Ossett and then on to Batley in 1864 when the line was doubled throughout. By 1883, Ossett had three railway stations: at Flushdyke, Ossett and Chickenley Heath, all on the Wakefield, Batley and Bradford branch of the Great Northern railway. Flushdyke station finally closed in 1941.