n 1923, one of the last tram tracks to be laid in the West Riding of Yorkshire was between Huddersfield and Brighouse via Rastrick. A triangular reverser was fitted outside the Junction which allowed some trams that had come up from Brighouse, to turn around easily and go back again without too much of a problem. This shortened service was only used at busy times, bringing people home from the mills and factories at the end of the working day. The ‘reverser’ meant that the water fountain (pictured left) in the middle of the road at the bottom of Toothill Bank and Ogden Lane had to be removed.

The tram only lasted for seventeen years on the Rastrick route as they were replaced by the electric powered trolley bus in 1940. Their life was even shorter as the bus service superseded that in 1955.