{"id":2651,"date":"2025-08-05T15:09:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T14:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/?p=2651"},"modified":"2025-08-05T15:09:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T14:09:38","slug":"slaithwaite-and-marsden-action-on-rail-transport-update-august-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/?p=2651","title":{"rendered":"Slaithwaite and Marsden Action on Rail Transport Update – August 2025\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SMART 21st July meeting summary:\u00a0<\/strong>thank you to everyone who attended. SMART will continue to push for a better train service for Slaithwaite and Marsden stations; for accessible stations which are reliably served by two trains an hour in each direction (with at least one to Leeds). There is going to be a lot of disruption over the coming weeks and so people are encouraged to use the SMART Facebook group etc. to organise potential lift sharing as an alternative. Most people from our stations travel to Leeds, Manchester or Huddersfield so hopefully there might be someone else going at the same times. We expect that there will be another SMART meeting in late 2025 to coincide with the planned consultation on the upgrade.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Station performance:<\/strong>\u00a0Slaithwaite and Marsden stations continue to have issues based on punctuality and cancellations placing them at\u00a02,429th<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a02,349th<\/a>\u00a0respectively out of 2,639 stations across the country [Source:\u00a0www.ontimetrains.co.uk<\/a>]. This puts them in the bottom 15% of stations (an improvement on last month). As discussed at the SMART meeting, this is mostly due to delays rather than cancellations [Ontimetrains’ methodology gives a delay of 11′ the same score as a cancellation.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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