{"id":2573,"date":"2025-02-26T21:31:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T21:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/?p=2573"},"modified":"2025-02-26T21:31:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T21:31:56","slug":"timetable-changes-3rd-21st-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/?p=2573","title":{"rendered":"Timetable Changes , 3rd &#8211; 21st March"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The bit that directly affects Slaithwaite &amp; Marsden is that the Manchester Piccadilly \u2013 Huddersfield \u2013 Wakefield Kirkgate \u2013 York  local stopping service will run on an amended timetable and journey time may be extended. There will also be fewer trains between Huddersfield and Leeds, with extended journey times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Between\u00a0Monday 3<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0March and Friday 21<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0March, Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) will be carrying out major upgrade works on the line between\u00a0Huddersfield, Dewsbury and Leeds. During these\u00a0weekday works\u00a0TRU will renew around 2,000 metres of track around Batley, install overhead line equipment (OLE) foundations and main steel between Morley and Leeds, renew 850 metres of drainage west of Leeds and install a new maintenance storage area at Morley station. While the upgrade work is taking place some services will be diverted, however TransPennine Express are committed to keeping customers on trains where possible and where this isn\u2019t possible, rail replacement buses will be in operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alterations to TransPennine Express services include;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Liverpool Lime Street \u2013 Manchester \u2013 Newcastle<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; this service will be calling additionally at Lea Green and will be running on an amended timetable<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Manchester Airport \u2013 Manchester \u2013 Redcar Central \u2013 <\/strong>this service will start and terminate at Manchester Victoria instead of Manchester Airport. It will also be running on an amended timetable and will be diverted, not calling at Dewsbury. Change at Leeds or Huddersfield for travel to\/from Dewsbury (see bus details below)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Liverpool Lime Street \u2013 Leeds \u2013 Hull \u2013 <\/strong>this service will start and terminate at Leeds instead of Liverpool Lime Street. Change at Leeds for onward travel<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Manchester Victoria \u2013 York \u2013 Scarborough \u2013 <\/strong>this service will start and terminate at York instead of Manchester Victoria. Change at York for onward travel<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Manchester Piccadilly \u2013 Huddersfield \u2013 Wakefield Kirkgate \u2013 York (local stopping) &#8211; <\/strong>this service will run on an amended timetable and journey time may be extended<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Huddersfield \u2013 Leeds (local stopping services)<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; this service will not run. A bus replacement service will be in place (see bus details below)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Details on the rail replacement bus service;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Leeds \u2013 Dewsbury \u2013 Huddersfield &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>an hourly bus service will be running in both directions between Leeds and Huddersfield via Dewsbury. Estimated total journey time: 55 minutes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Leeds \u2013 Dewsbury (express)<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; an hourly shuttle bus will be running between Leeds and Dewsbury. Estimated total journey time: 30 minutes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Huddersfield \u2013 Leeds (via local stations<\/strong>) &#8211; an hourly bus service will be running in both directions, also calling at Deighton, Mirfield, Ravensthorpe, Dewsbury, Batley, Morley, Cottingley. Estimated total journey time: 89 minutes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Huddersfield \u2013 Stockport \u2013 Manchester Airport &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>an hourly bus replacement service will be running between these stations. Estimated total journey time: 80 minutes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Amended timetables will be in operation on weekdays from Monday 3<sup>rd<\/sup>&nbsp;March and Friday 21<sup>st<\/sup>&nbsp;March and customers are advised to plan ahead and check before they travel on the day. Up to date information can be found on the following page&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tpexpress.co.uk\/travel-updates\/planned-engineering-work\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Planned Engineering Works | TransPennine Express<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bit that directly affects Slaithwaite &amp; Marsden is that the Manchester Piccadilly \u2013 Huddersfield \u2013 Wakefield Kirkgate \u2013 York local stopping service will run on an amended timetable and journey time may be extended. There will also be fewer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/?p=2573\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,58,53,18,77],"tags":[8,32,24,62,78],"class_list":["post-2573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marsden","category-slaithwaite","category-timetable-changes-2","category-tpe-services","category-transpennine-route-upgrade","tag-marsden","tag-slaithwaite","tag-timetable-changes","tag-tpe-services","tag-transpennine-route-upgrade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2574,"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573\/revisions\/2574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}