 It was renamed Bramwith by 1889 to avoid confusion with the Barnby Dun station on the South Yorkshire Railway nearby.The Wakefield Westgate station had been opened by the Bradford, Wakefield and Leeds Railway, with limited facilities as a wayside station.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.