Category Archives: Slaithwaite

Slaithwaite Community celebrates the station it got reopened

[comment in the Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 14th December 2012] IN 1968 it looked like the end of the line for Slaithwaite station. The Colne Valley village had had a railway station since 1849. Its opening, on the old London and … Continue reading →

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SMART meeting with Jason McCartney MP

SMART met with Jason McCartney MP on 21st September. Issues discussed included future service patterns, refranchising, cross-boundary fares, bus replacement during engineering works, and the impact of the ale trail.

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30 years of Slaithwaite station – Saturday 15th December

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Sunday train services

Unless there’s been a change of plan at short notice without the need to tell anyone – not that anything like that has or could ever happen round here – Sunday trains return from 9th December 2012.

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