Tag Archives: Transpennine Route Upgrade

What do we want the Transpennine Route Upgrade to deliver for us?

Posted on February 3, 2025 by admin

Slaithwaite and Marsden Action on Rail Transport has just launched a survey of rail users in the area – which can be found at the link below – as we want to gather views on i) the recent timetable change … Continue reading →

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Weekend engineering works & bus replacement throughout January 2025

Posted on January 2, 2025 by admin

Weekend engineering works & bus replacement throughout January 2025. On weekends between Saturday 4 January – Sunday 9 February, engineering work will take place between Mossley and Deighton. As a result, no trains will be able to call at Huddersfield. … Continue reading →

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“Public consultation opens on TRU Stalybridge to Saddleworth plans”

Posted on September 16, 2024 by admin

[from Network Rail press release, 16 September 2024] Images have been released showing the Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) changes coming to the railway and stations between Stalybridge tunnel and Diggle (Saddleworth). The public consultation on this area of the route … Continue reading →

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After 25 years of vague promises, we want definite commitments

Posted on August 28, 2024 by admin

As a rail users’ group at the midpoint between Leeds and Manchester, we have followed the stop-start (but mostly stop) progress of the Transpennine Route Upgrade and all of its previous incarnations with great interest, and argued for outcomes which … Continue reading →

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