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Post by Bradford Traveller on Aug 3, 2020 23:45:41 GMT 1
From 30 August, new bus service A2 will link Apperley Bridge Station with Yeadon and the Airport.
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Post by dlspotter on Aug 4, 2020 12:01:31 GMT 1
From 30 August, new bus service A2 will link Apperley Bridge Station with Yeadon and the Airport. 747 already passes the station, wondering if it will stop outside the station platform if there is space to do so.
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Post by Bradford Traveller on Aug 4, 2020 12:06:14 GMT 1
From 30 August, new bus service A2 will link Apperley Bridge Station with Yeadon and the Airport. 747 already passes the station, wondering if it will stop outside the station platform if there is space to do so. The current bus stop is on the main road, some distance from the platforms. The new Flyer bus will call at the 948 bus stop next to the car park.
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Post by Bradford Traveller on Sept 2, 2020 14:18:47 GMT 1
£7.4 million proposal to improve access to both Brighouse Station and the under development Elland Rail Station in Calderdale went before members of West Yorkshire Combined Authority's Investment Committee at a meeting on Tuesday.
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Post by rossbailey on Jan 17, 2021 16:16:19 GMT 1
www.facebook.com/LBASupportGroup/posts/116445857002092Consultation is opening this coming Monday for the proposed Leeds Bradford Airport Parkway Rail Station.The LBA Parkway is a West Yorkshire Combined Authority led scheme to provide a new rail station on the existing Harrogate Line, between Horsforth Station and the southern end of the Bramhope tunnel. The objective of the Parkway Station is to ease current congestion and associated air quality issues by improving access by public transport and by encouraging fewer people to drive to the airport. It will offer direct faster links from the Airport to Leeds, Harrogate and York using Northern Rail and possibly beyond linking up with the London North Eastern Railway Azuma services. Further information on the scheme including details of how to get involved in the engagement will be available on the below webpage from Monday 18 January until 21 February. www.yourvoice.westyorks-ca.gov.uk/login
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Post by stevieinselby on Jan 18, 2021 21:49:05 GMT 1
I'm not convinced by any of it.
Airport Parkway stations don't seem to attract as many passengers as those with the station in the airport itself.
If they are planning a 350-space car park, that seems like it is aimed more at Park & Ride than airport travellers, but I'm really not sure where they would be coming from ... Bramhope, maybe? Either way, it will send a lot of traffic down a minor country lane that doesn't really look suitable for it.
It really isn't far from Horsforth station to the airport. I'm surprised that congestion around Horsforth is so bad as to make a shuttle bus between the station and the airport unreliable, but even if that is the case, it strikes me that they could build a short bus-only road out the back of the station car park and up to Scotland Lane a heck of a lot cheaper than a whole new station – which also needs a new road building to Scotland Lane, so it's just making a slightly longer one but saving all the other costs. Yes, the bus journey may then be 10 minutes rather than 5, but when you look at how much time will be saved by existing passengers not having to stop at an additional station, I think we're still quids in on that front.
And the buildings are horrible 🤮. I can understand using pre-rusted metal for things like bridges, where maintenance is an issue, but I can't see any justification for that here. If the design brief is to stop the buildings from looking old and tired over time then the solution should not be to make them look old and tired from the start so that they don't get any worse! And has no-one on the design team heard of windows?
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Post by Bradford Traveller on Mar 13, 2021 21:37:26 GMT 1
Labour councillors Darren Byford and Lynn Masterman have announced that they were developing plans to build a railway station on the Huddersfield to Wakefield Kirkgate line. The station is intended to serve Horbury and Ossett, and Cllr Masterman said two potential sites are being considered. www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/local-news/new-rail-station-plan-wakefield-20054820.ampThe councillors currently estimate the process of planning, funding and building the station will take five to seven years. It will be part of the West Yorkshire Combined Authority’s local transport plan rail strategy, which seeks to improve railway networks across West Yorkshire.
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Post by pontecarlo1 on Mar 19, 2021 21:22:10 GMT 1
They could probably do with running more than two trains a day on the route in the first place!
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Post by stevieinselby on Mar 20, 2021 0:09:35 GMT 1
They could probably do with running more than two trains a day on the route in the first place! Pre-Covid, the Wakefield to Huddersfield service was hourly, but it has been cut to a skeleton service for the pandemic.
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Post by dlspotter on Mar 20, 2021 1:21:27 GMT 1
They could probably do with running more than two trains a day on the route in the first place! Pre-Covid, the Wakefield to Huddersfield service was hourly, but it has been cut to a skeleton service for the pandemic. As someone who lives on the route it surprises me they're running the service at all. It only had a somewhat decent patronage on the journeys at the times they are currently running it. I used various services on this route at other times of the day when coming back from Manchester Airport (very convenient as don't have to change at Leeds) and there were never more than four others on the train at any time. People generally had no idea the service existed as I had been at the station and heard people say "since when was there a train to Huddersfield" Obviously there were plans for TPEx to serve Hudds - Kirkgate before last March which have since seemingly been scrapped, so possibly to take over the service for the most part, however I never see this service returning to hourly, or even increasing over current service levels which I believe is a shame.
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Post by pontecarlo1 on Mar 28, 2021 8:52:19 GMT 1
I'd have to disagree with you. Whenever I've used the service in the past, there were usually loadings of around 20 people at Kirkgate for the 1608 journey. That's more than a handful, and this was regular commuters as I saw this practically every day coming through. Is there any other service in West Yorkshire that has such an absolutely pitiful service? It's turning into a parliamentary service!
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Post by adam on Mar 28, 2021 8:55:38 GMT 1
There's quite a few students travel from Huddersfield to Wakefield and stations towards Pontefract that would normally travel direct who now have an extended journey and increased fares
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Post by jdodger08 on Mar 28, 2021 14:08:28 GMT 1
I personally always thought they should make it a through route Huddersfield - York via Wakefield. That way people don't have to travel into Leeds
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Post by dlspotter on Mar 28, 2021 21:32:25 GMT 1
I personally always thought they should make it a through route Huddersfield - York via Wakefield. That way people don't have to travel into Leeds Last May TPEx were due to serve Kirkgate, I thought it would be a good opportunity for locals like myself if they were to extend a service onwards past Castleford to either York or Hull but couldn't see them doing that.
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Post by stevieinselby on Mar 28, 2021 23:53:34 GMT 1
I personally always thought they should make it a through route Huddersfield - York via Wakefield. That way people don't have to travel into Leeds Last May TPEx were due to serve Kirkgate, I thought it would be a good opportunity for locals like myself if they were to extend a service onwards past Castleford to either York or Hull but couldn't see them doing that. That seems a trifle, um, ambitious! If under Covid there is only enough traffic between Wakefield and Huddersfield to justify three trains a day, it seems hard to imagine that in normal times it would be worth running two trains per hour. If there's interest in having a through service from Wakefield to Manchester then just combine them into one service running from Manchester through to Castleford – although I still don't think it should be run by Transpennine Express. It's clearly a Northern route! I'm not sure about the merits of a through service to York. If there was a direct service between York and the Five Towns then I would think it ought to serve Glasshoughton, as that is going to be the biggest draw for people in York, which is not impossible but would require a reversal at Castleford. York to Wakefield is already direct every hour on XCountry taking 38 minutes, and so a service via Pontefract and Castleford would be slower and less attractive for passengers – so it would rely primarily on intermediate passengers to justify itself. I'm sure it would be an advantage to have a direct service between Wakefield and Glasshoughton, which at the moment needs a change at Castleford. Definitely something to consider though.
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Post by jdodger08 on Mar 29, 2021 13:00:36 GMT 1
Looking through satellite images it looks plausible to go Huddersfield - Wakefield Kirkgate - Pontefract Monkhill - York as there is a single curve in Ferrybridge which connects on both lines. I would imagine it would be a Northern stopper service to be fair.
Turn around in Castleford could also work to connect with Xscape but would be more time consuming as it's a slow turn out of Castleford.
Pre-covid maybe it could have worked, but now, I agree would be a loss making route.
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Post by jst on Mar 29, 2021 13:21:02 GMT 1
The plan for TPE to serve Kirkgate was mainly down to their desire to run six car sets between Huddersfield and Manchester on the Stoppers, there would have been insufficient platform capacity to allow this to happen. The run to Wakefield will been little more than a glorified shunt move. TPE still have the access rights for this in their track access agreement.
As for Huddersfield to York via Wakefield Kirkgate there were certainly some aspiration politically for this to happen but running via Castleford and onwards to Sherburn, Church Fenton and York. There is a curve between Pontefract East Junction and Ferrybridge South Junction if there was a desire to run via Featherstone and Pontefract Monkhill but the curve is currently only rated for freight use which would have to be changed.
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Post by Bradford Traveller on Mar 29, 2021 23:12:36 GMT 1
There's quite a few students travel from Huddersfield to Wakefield and stations towards Pontefract that would normally travel direct who now have an extended journey and increased fares This week, the new fare structure starts, with different fares for journeys routed not via Leeds/ journeys routed via Leeds.
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Post by dlspotter on Mar 30, 2021 9:54:53 GMT 1
There's quite a few students travel from Huddersfield to Wakefield and stations towards Pontefract that would normally travel direct who now have an extended journey and increased fares This week, the new fare structure starts, with different fares for journeys routed not via Leeds/ journeys routed via Leeds. A close friend of mine lives in Normanton and takes the train to Huddersfield for university. He has a travel pass that is not valid via Leeds, and the train is essential for him. I am glad that the route hasn't been cut however he has to stay in Huddersfield for hours after his classes or wait hours before them because he is limited to this train.
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Post by adam on Mar 30, 2021 16:00:50 GMT 1
There's quite a few students travel from Huddersfield to Wakefield and stations towards Pontefract that would normally travel direct who now have an extended journey and increased fares This week, the new fare structure starts, with different fares for journeys routed not via Leeds/ journeys routed via Leeds. Theres always been via Leeds/any permitted and not via Leeds fares
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Post by Bradford Traveller on Sept 7, 2021 17:33:45 GMT 1
£7.4 million proposal to improve access to both Brighouse Station and the under development Elland Rail Station in Calderdale went before members of West Yorkshire Combined Authority's Investment Committee at a meeting on Tuesday. www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/19564398.plans-go-new-rail-station-west-yorkshire/A full planning application has now been submitted to Calderdale Council for Elland’s new £20 million rail station.
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Post by Bradford Traveller on Jan 3, 2022 16:48:39 GMT 1
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Post by gledhill56 on Jan 3, 2022 17:29:34 GMT 1
Clickbait article from a news outlet that relies on clicks to get money from the adverts.
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Post by joseph on Jan 3, 2022 17:47:18 GMT 1
I'd take no notice of this article to be honest, I use Cottingley and find it ok. It has a shelter, you don't need to spend a long time waiting as the trains are generally reliable, or at least only a few mins late, and although their is no ramp access over the line, this could easily be fixed by way of a ramped bridge. The new station is not as good for local residents as it's down the side of Milshaw Industrial Estate, a good 10 mins extra walk for most users of the current station. Also, if you look on the Leeds Live page, you'll see all sorts of stories ranging from the worst Hotel in Leeds to an area where people feel cut off from the rest of the city.
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Post by Username on Jan 5, 2022 11:59:43 GMT 1
Why is everyone going off topic here, the thread is new stations.
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