These closures will enable the safe delivery of critical infrastructure upgrades, including track and drainage renewals, bridge works, signalling improvements, and significant station enhancements along the route between Huddersfield and Leeds. This series of upgrade works will help deliver faster, more frequent services on a greener, more reliable railway.
Customers are being urged to check their journey in advance at nationalrail.co.uk before travelling.
Wherever possible, customers will remain on trains, using diversionary routes or services running as close as possible to the closure areas. However, journey times will change, and some customers may need to use rail replacement buses for part of their trip.
Brighouse station will be used as a rail and bus interchange location for those travelling to or from Huddersfield during affected periods.
Paul Sumner, TRU Senior Sponsor, said:
“We understand the ongoing work will cause some disruption, and we’d like to thank everybody for their patience throughout this period.
“The Transpennine Route Upgrade will bring major benefits, including more trains, more seats and faster, more reliable journeys across the North. These improvements, from electrifying the route to upgrading stations and modernising signalling, will help create a greener, more dependable railway that better serves local communities for years to come.”
Andrew Allwright, TRU Programme Delivery Lead for Northern, said:
“TRU has made a lot of progress on the route between Huddersfield and Leeds over the last few years, and will continue to do so over the next few months, delivering once in a generation upgrades for our customers that will improve accessibility at our stations, as well as improving the reliability of the railway and enabling future upgrade works to take place along that corridor.
“While these works are being carried out over the coming months, our services will be operating to an amended timetable and in some instances, rail replacement buses will be in operation. Due to the scale of the upcoming work, we would advise that our customers check before they travel at www.nationrail.co.uk.”
A full breakdown of the changes to services between Huddersfield and Leeds throughout this period can be found below:
On the following dates, no trains will call at Huddersfield and Slaithwaite stations, with amended timetables in place and TransPennine Express services diverted via Hebden Bridge:
On the following dates, there will be no trains departing Huddersfield towards Dewsbury and Leeds:
On the following dates, there will be no trains through Dewsbury. Amended timetables will be in place and services will be diverted between Huddersfield and Leeds via Wakefield Kirkgate:
Please note that Brighouse station car park will also be closed from Thursday 30 April until Tuesday 26 May to facilitate bus replacement services to and from Huddersfield throughout this period.
