Westwood railway station was situated on the South Yorkshire Railway's Blackburn Valley line between  and . The station served an area of few houses apart from  two rows of miners' cottages known as "Westwood Row".
Tankersley colliery was north of the station and was connected to the railway line by an industrial spur. Another spur left the line in Westwood station and led via a switchback to Thorncliffe Iron Works and Thorncliffe Colliery.