Under the Spen Valley Light Railways Order of 1901
British Electric Traction set up the Yorkshire (Woollen District) Electric Tramways. The company established a tramway network centred on
Dewsbury with branches to Cleckheaton, Birkenshaw, Ravensthorpe, Thornhill and Birstal. Operations were replaced by the buses of
British Electric Traction-owned Yorkshire Woollen District Transport Company. ==Closure==