There are currently delays of upto 18 minutes between Skipton and Leeds.
UPDATE: Delays were due to a failed train.
Filed under: Bingley, Cononley, Crossflatts, Keighley, Saltaire, Shipley, Skipton, Steeton & Silsden | Tagged: delays, Leeds, Northern Rail, Skipton | Comments Off on UPDATED Airedale Line – Delays
Published in the Telegraph & Argus (Friday 19th February 2010)
SIR – Cuts to the Local Transport Plan (T&A, February 16) will surely be of great worry to anyone who uses public transport.
The residents of Low Moor will be obviously worried to see if the proposed cuts will again try hold them back from the new railway station they desperately need.
The public should be campaigning vigorously for LTP funding to be maintained. You cannot have a healthy economy (which we all strive to get back to) built on dilapidated roads and rails!
The Bradford Rail Users’ Group will be fighting hard to ensure funding for Low Moor railway station isn’t cut, and to fight for a cross-Bradford rail link to improve journey times and significantly reduce pressure on the ring road.
James Vasey. Chairman Bradford Rail Users’ Group.
Filed under: CrossRail - X-Rail, Low Moor, Metro | Tagged: Local Travel Plan, Low Moor, LTP | Comments Off on Vital rail links must not suffer from cuts
The Telegraph and Argus have an article (here) about the plans Bradford Council are drawing up in case a sledgehammer is taken to the Local Transport Plan to help reduce government spending.
This however is surely the wrong thing to be doing in the long-term interests of Bradford and the wider “City Region”.
BRUG’s immediate worry is surely that of the funding for Low Moor railway station.
Is Bradford Council drawing up plans to request more money as well? – Just in case an idea they suggest that might actually resonate with the Department of Transport and they think “Actually that is a good idea, let’s fund it”.
Filed under: CrossRail - X-Rail, Low Moor | Tagged: Bradford Council, Cross-Rail Bradford, Local Transport Plan, Low Moor, LTP | Comments Off on Jam Today – and jams tomorrow!
From Modern Railways January 2010 (p10):
Network Rail and train operators say they aim to offer a rail journey in almost all circumstances between key stations.
The aim to reduce the amount of time rail is unavailable due to engineering works and to reduce the use rail-replacement services.
Leeds – Bradford is part of the 20 key-routes.
Filed under: Forster Square, Interchange | Tagged: Bradford, Key Routes, Modern Railways, Network Rail | Comments Off on Bradford is a key route!
NXEC 9th December 2007 – 13th November 2009.
“Take the National Express when your life’s in a mess” – Divine Comedy
If it wasn’t true, it would be funny! National Express East Coast is to be returned to public ownership for their failure to pay the premium they agreed to in 2007, (which was higher than the previous operator GNER … failed to pay the premium they agreed to in 2005) – all patterns noticed are purely co-incidental.
From the 14th November 2009 ECML services will be operated by the Government. (London bound services from Skipton, Shipley, Bradford Forster Square, Keighley and Leeds) Continue reading
Filed under: Forster Square, Keighley, Shipley, Skipton | Tagged: Divine Comedy, DOR, East Coast, GNER, NXEC | Comments Off on “East Coast” to replace NXEC this Friday
Rail services were delayed this morning due to a signal failures in Armley. Passengers from Shipley and stations to Skipton had to wait up-to one hour before a North/West-bound service was sent from Forster Square up-to Skipton. The first services departing Shipley towards Skipton didn’t leave until 8:05am (from Forster Square). – an hours delay.
Leeds bound commuters had the option of travelling in coaches from Shipley, or via Forster Square and then walking upto the Interchange to catch the Leeds trains.
These problems would be over-come by Bradford Crossrail! or as we now also call it: The Armley Junction bypass!
Filed under: Bingley, Cononley, Crossflatts, Forster Square, Frizinghall, Interchange, Keighley, Saltaire, Shipley, Skipton, Steeton & Silsden | Tagged: Armley., Bradford Forster Square, Bradford Interchange, Shipley, Signalling | Comments Off on 29th October – Airedale Cancellations
The Yorkshire and Humber rail utilisation strategy was released mid-July 2009. At 148 pages and with a large number of appendices it would be almost impossible to provide a critique on the full document, therefore, this post will concentrate on the issues affecting the Airedale and Caldervale lines, (those that have the most effect on Bradford).
Filed under: Apperley Bridge, Forster Square, Interchange, Kirkstall Forge, Low Moor, Metro | Tagged: Airedale, Calder, Cross Rail, Halifax, Low Moor, RUS, WYMetro | Comments Off on Y&H Rail Utilisation Strategy
The Secretary of State for Transport, Lord Adonis, confirmed this morning to the BBC and in parliament that NXEC is to be taken into public ownership after admitting that it will be unable to make it’s premium payments. Continue reading
Filed under: Forster Square, Keighley, Shipley, Skipton | Tagged: Adonis, Bradford, Dft, ECML, Edinburgh, Franchise, Leeds, London Kings Cross, National Express, NXEC | Comments Off on NXEC to be nationalised
Plans to create a regular passenger service along the KWVR railway have “hit the buffers” according to this article from the T&A. Continue reading
Filed under: Keighley | Tagged: Keighley, KWVR, Metro | Comments Off on Oxenhope train at the buffers
At a meeting of the Rail Working Group of the WYITA on 3rd June 2009, it was revealed that the station has been placed on the “West Yorkshire Strategic Programme of Schemes for 2009/10 – 2011/12” and is funded! Continue reading
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From December 2009 Grand Northern will start operating between Bradford Interchange and London Kings Cross. This is excellent news for Bradford, and will join Forster Square in having a direct London service. Continue reading
Filed under: Grand Central, Interchange | Tagged: Brighouse, Doncaster, Grand Northern, Pontefract Monkhill, SOS, Wakefield Kirkgate | Comments Off on A neglected route
The Telegraph and Argus is reporting here on plans by WYMetro for reopening Apperley Bridge railway station. Meetings were held on the 15th and 16th May 2009 at Woodhouse Grove School near the site of the former station. The station will be located on the Airedale line, whilst the other planned station Kirkstall Forge will serve both Airedale and the Wharfedale lines.
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I have been sat down with my spreadsheet, a cup of tea and this article from the Telegraph & Argus. Which explains how the new zone 7 (Cononley & Skipton) will be priced. The answer: it isn’t as good as we thought!
For commuters: you have to make a journey into and through Leeds before the MetroCard+7 makes financial sense.
Filed under: Skipton | Comments Off on Skipton – Leeds, keep your season ticket
WY Metro has sealed a deal with North Yorkshire County Council to give them access to the WY Metro ticketing system as part of new zones 6 & 7. Continue reading
Filed under: Cononley, Skipton, Steeton & Silsden | Tagged: Cononley, Skipton, Steeton & Silsden | Comments Off on Better crossboundary access
WYITA Stresses their commitment to Low Moor Station Continue reading
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Train company Grand Union has been given the go ahead by the Office of Rail Regulation for its proposed Bradford Interchange to London Kings Cross service. Continue reading
Filed under: Interchange | Tagged: Brighouse, Doncaster, Grand Union, Halifax, Interchange, London Kings Cross, Monkhill, Wakefield Kirkgate | Comments Off on Interchange – London Kings Cross
A £20m plan to regenerate the Bradford to Leeds corridor has been agreed between the two cities. Continue reading
Filed under: Laisterdyke, Stations | Tagged: Apperley Bridge, Laisterdyke, Low Moor | Comments Off on Laisterdyke Station?
Bradford Rail Users Group 