Huge disruption for rail services as stations shut

Wakefield, Huddersfield, Dewsbury, Stalybridge and Bradford.

This means customers will still be able to get to the Huddersfield Food and Drink Festival taking place from August 3 – 6 but via bus.

There will be no TransPennine trains between Manchester Piccadilly and Leeds, buses will run instead between the stations.

Northern services will still run on the Manchester Victoria-Leeds line.

Anyone travelling to Newcastle, Middlesbrough, Scarborough, Hull, Manchester, Sheffield, Doncaster and Cleethorpes should check on nationalrail.co.uk for details. Other services affected: Northern services that usually call at Huddersfield will be diverted via Halifax and Bradford.

Northern will also run rail replacement bus services from Huddersfield to Penistone, Leeds (via Dewsbury), Wakefield Westgate (Saturday only) and Halifax (via Brighouse). Where to get a replacement bus Replacement buses at Huddersfield will run from Lord Street, in Huddersfield town centre. That’s because the Huddersfield Food and Drink Festival is taking place at St George’s Square,

In Dewsbury replacement buses will run from the station car park area.

And there’s more railway station closures to come:

The project over the weekend of August 5-6 is the first of three stages. Huddersfield Railway Station will be closed over the weekends of and

Old signalling technology is being upgraded from local lineside signal boxes to the stateof-the-art Rail Operating Centre in York.

Network Rail say the work will result in a more reliable, modern and cost-effective railway.

Rob McIntosh, of Network Rail, said: “The signalling system in this part of West Yorkshire is approaching the end of its operational life and we are taking this opportunity to replace it with the latest signal technology which will increase reliability, thereby reducing delays, while cutting the cost of running the railway for the taxpayer.”