 It was plain that it needed to be improved, and the WR&GR obtained an Act on 23 June 1864 authorising a new station at Westgate.It was to be located on the West Yorkshire Railway (as the BW&LR had become), for the joint use of the Midland Railway, WYR, MS&LR, and SYR, all of which subscribed to its cost.The new station was in use on 1 May 1867.