Track upgrades to cause rail disruption

Trains between Leeds and Huddersfield will not call at several intermediate stations for three weeks while track upgrade work takes place.

Transpennine Express said weekday services would be diverted via Wakefield Kirkgate, meaning they would not stop at Ravensthorpe, Dewsbury, Batley, Morley or Cottingley.

As part of the Transpennine Route Upgrade, new track and overhead line equipment will be installed and the signal box at Batley will be removed.

The diversions will take place between 3-21 March and journey times will increase. Rail replacement buses will serve the stations on the route instead.

Passengers have been advised to plan ahead of their journeys. Weekend services will not be impacted.

Jonathan Hepton, project sponsor for Transpennine Route Upgrade, said: "This series of weekday works affecting services between Dewsbury and Leeds will enable vital upgrades to this stretch of railway.

"Further installation of electrification equipment and new track takes us one step closer to an upgraded, electrified Transpennine route."

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