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'Do not travel warning' issued as major rail station forced to close due to signalling issue
Commuters have been advised not to travel to Leeds Train Station after it was suddenly closed due to a fault. National Rail says all lines are blocked at the station due to a signalling system failure. According to travellers, scenes outside the station are "chaos". An update posted on National Rail's X - formerly Twitter - account said disruption had been expected until 5pm, but in an update shortly before 6pm, it said: "Leeds station is currently closed." BBC Look North presenter Peter Levy posted on the social media site: "Chaos at Leeds station, all trains not running. In huge queue waiting for replacement buses to Hull!" READ MORE: 5 games released in 2025 guaranteed to take you back to the good old days of gaming READ MORE: The 5 simple tricks to speed up your broadband A statement from National Rail said: "A fault with the signalling system in the Leeds area means all lines are closed. No trains are able to run to / from / through Leeds and will be cancelled, delayed by up to 120 minutes, revised or diverted. Leeds station is currently closed. Major disruption is expected until the end of the day. Services affected by the disruption includes: CrossCountry between Penzance, Plymouth, Bristol Temple Meads and Edinburgh; between Reading and Newcastle; and between Plymouth and Leeds, Glasgow Central. LNER between London Kings Cross and Bradford Forster Square, Skipton, Leeds, Harrogate. Northern between Blackpool North, Blackburn, Leeds and York; between Lancaster, Morecambe, Chester, Wigan Wallgate, Manchester Victoria, Bradford Interchange, Bradford Forster Square, Lincoln, Skipton, Ilkley, Castleford, Knottingley, Halifax, Hull, Goole, Doncaster, Sheffield and Leeds; between Leeds and Harrogate, Knaresborough, York, Ribblehead, Carlisle; and between Halifax, Bradford Interchange and Hull. TransPennine Express between Liverpool Lime Street and Newcastle, Edinburgh; between Hull, Scarborough and Leeds; and between Manchester Victoria and Leeds, York, Scarborough, Saltburn, Redcar Central. Northern has told affected customers not to travel and ticket restrictions have been lifted for other services. LNER said rail replacement buses are in operation between Leeds and Doncaster, and is being arranged to run between Bradford Forster Square, Harrogate, York and Leeds. However there are a number of cancellations across LNER's route and they are advising customers for Bradford Forster Square, Harrogate, Wakefield Westgate and Leeds not to travel. TransPennine has told customers whose journey starts or ends at Leeds, or passes through, not to travel, unless it is necessary.
BBC News
08-02-2025
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York mum's portrait of daughter wins award
A woman who took an online photography course during lockdown has won a national competition with a portrait of her Mehta, from York, took a photograph of her six-year-old daughter Nina stood in the Yorkshire Dales while dressed in her family's traditional Indian picture won a spot in the annual Portrait of Britain competition and has been displayed on billboards across the Mehta, whose family are of British and Indian heritage, said: "I started doing a project documenting how we were raising our children with this dual heritage identity and I wanted them to be really proud of it and where they're from." As one of the winning 100 portraits in the contest run by the British Journal of Photography, the photo of Nina was displayed on digital screens across January, it could be seen in locations including Leeds Station, Manchester Piccadilly Station and on billboards in London. "I was doing a project based on my family, my children are dual heritage and my husband's family are Indian," Ms Mehta, who is originally from Richmond, said. "When he grew up, he lived in London surrounded by all of his Indian family, culture and heritage every single day."The winning photo was taken on a family day out to the Yorkshire Dales, near Middleham. "Nina loves wearing her Indian clothes that her Nani brings back from India for her," the photographer added."So we had those in the car and she put them on and stood on this little path."She was really proud, really showing 'this is who I am, this is where I'm from and this is me'."Ms Mehta said she had been keen to capture Nina's mantra, 'I'm Yorkshire and I'm Indian - both, not half'. After encouragement from a fellow photographer, Ms Mehta entered the photo into the competition, not expecting a response. "I got this email one evening and I was jumping around my living room," she said."It was crazy that I'd been shortlisted and then when I got the follow up email, that I was one of the winners."Coming home from Leeds one evening, Ms Mehta's husband saw Nina's picture on a screen at the station."He had a moment of thinking 'that's unbelievable' and was welling up and sent me a picture," Ms Mehta added."That weekend, we all went and stood in Leeds station on a cold Sunday morning and we got to see it. "Nina and I were jumping up and down because it was really exciting."It's been on huge billboards, I couldn't believe the size of the billboards that it's been on."The York photographer's ambition is to carry on capturing her family's identity and branch out to picturing other families with dual to highlights from North Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North or tell us a story you think we should be covering here.
