When the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway  was being built in the middle of the eighteenth century, the barn of the Waggon and Horses public house was used to house the navvies who built it. 

Oxspring railway station was a short lived station built by the Sheffield, Ashton-Under-Lyne and Manchester Railway  to serve the village of Oxspring, South Yorkshire , England  The station opened on 5 December 1845 but due to cost-cutting measures it was closed, along with dog Lane, Hazelhead  and Thurgoland , on 5 November 1847.