Fine sunshine. Let’s have a Sunday out by train! But, first Sunday in June engineering work meant your train from Halifax was probably a bus. Halifax to Leeds took an hour to an hour and a half. Brighouse-Leeds was actually better than usual with Blackpool and Chester trains stopping – though some sources showed these stops as “unadvertised”. This gave a journey time of a little over 20 minutes. (Brighouse-Leeds by replacement bus via Halifax would take you nearly 2 hours.)
It is not clear why the whole Bradford-Huddersfield service had to replaced by buses. Could not trains have run from Halifax via Brighouse to Leeds? One did first thing in the morning. It took 29 minutes to Leeds including a stop (bizarrely shown on Real Time Trains as “unadvertised”) at Brighouse. Not bad!
We realise things may not that easy, but with lots more diversions ahead as work on the Transpennine Upgrade proceeds the companies need to make sure our line gets a fair deal.
Header Image: “The Lord’s Arrival” flickr photo by JohnTurner1955 https://flickr.com/photos/johngreyturner/49060701926 shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) license
Halifax and District Rail Action Group 