The Secretary of State for Transport has approved a Transport and Works Act Order granting us permission to deliver a number of major elements of TRU between Leeds and Micklefield.
This Order gives us the powers to replace five level crossings with safer alternatives; raise, reconstruct or remove a number of bridges to enable electrification; and install some small-scale infrastructure. It also allows us to set up a number of temporary work compounds to help us carry out these essential improvements.
We’ve installed the first overhead electric lines as part of the Transpennine Route Upgrade – the first step towards a cleaner, greener, fully electrified railway between York, Leeds, Huddersfield and Manchester.
We will be replacing the railway bridge over Osmondthorpe Lane over the 2024 Christmas period. The new, stronger structure will accommodate the new track position, which will allow faster and heavier trains to run.
Dates of when we’ll be working in your area, and details of what we’ll be doing.
Dates of when we’ll be working in your area, and details of what we’ll be doing.
Between 26 May and 3 June 2024, the Transpennine Route Upgrade replaced the railway bridge deck over the A162 London Road at Barkston Ash.
The bridge, which was opened in 1869 by the North Eastern Railway, was approaching life expiry. Replacing it now with a stronger bridge deck ahead of the line’s electrification will enable more frequent, faster, heavier passenger and freight trains to run.
We are replacing three private railway crossings in the Church Fenton area – Rose Lane, Adamsons and Poulters – with a safer alternative.
In the UK’s first operation of its kind, three tunnel boring machines worked simultaneously side by side beneath the four-track line at Ulleskelf Mires in North Yorkshire to install three new drainage tunnels beneath the Transpennine main line.
We’re upgrading the route between York and Church Fenton to provide a more reliable and resilient railway for passengers.
Over Christmas Day and Boxing Day 2023, our teams successfully replaced a major set of track points at Holgate in York with the aid of the largest rail-mounted crane in the UK
The heavily-used track points, which allow trains from Holgate Sidings to re-join the main lines, are crossed over by 100 passenger and freight trains each day and renewing them will help ensure that trains arriving in York from Leeds run reliably.
