Railway History
The village was served by the stone- and timber-built Waterhouses railway station on the Deerness Valley Railway. The station opened on 1 November 1877, and closed to passengers on 29 October 1951 and to freight on 28 December 1964. The route of the line is now part of the eight-mile Deerness Valley Railway Path.
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