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Post by gooderson1 on Jul 29, 2017 16:06:07 GMT 1
During the first weekend of August(Fri-Sun) Huddersfield holds it's Food & Drink Festival. It involves the closure of the roads feeding into St Georges Square(o/s the station). Buses serving the station(on runs outwards Leeds etc) are diverted as the stalls and tents are erected. This year Network Rail have decided to close the entire line through Huddersfield on Saturday and Sunday replacing them with replacement bus services which can't stop anywhere near the station. Whatever happened to forward planning.
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Post by westyorkshirebus on Jul 29, 2017 17:15:44 GMT 1
The replacement buses will be running from Lord Street
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Post by gooderson1 on Jul 29, 2017 18:24:49 GMT 1
Thanks for that but it the lack of planning I am commenting on. Impending passengers have got the push through crowds at the food festival to get to and from the ticket office and the replacement buses.
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Post by northerner on Jul 29, 2017 20:37:42 GMT 1
I can imagine it will harm the number of visitors the Food Festival will get too, would have made sense for them to move the event back a week
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Post by gooderson1 on Jul 29, 2017 22:25:49 GMT 1
As far as I am aware it has always been held on the first weekend in August. Most festival like these are usually at prearranged weekends in order that exhibitors, equipment hirers etc can do the rounds.
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Post by northerner on Jul 29, 2017 22:34:32 GMT 1
As far as I am aware it has always been held on the first weekend in August. Most festival like these are usually at prearranged weekends in order that exhibitors, equipment hirers etc can do the rounds. But Network Rail can't be expected to plan engineering work around events otherwise projects would never get completed. It's also Leeds Pride the same weekend, so anyone coming in from the west of the Pennines is going to have their journey disrupted - it's just the way it goes. And I'm sure the Huddersfield food festival is usually later in August? |
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Post by westyorkshirebus on Jul 30, 2017 0:04:47 GMT 1
Thanks for that but it the lack of planning I am commenting on. Impending passengers have got the push through crowds at the food festival to get to and from the ticket office and the replacement buses. People have to push through to get to the station every year, if anything there will be less people pushing through as you can go straight to Lord Street. I'm guessing staff will be down there with ticket machines. |
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Post by adam on Jul 30, 2017 8:06:22 GMT 1
It's awful timing but the Huddersfield work has to be done to enable the transfer of signalling to the York Signalling Centre along with Healey Mills in October
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