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BBC News
20-04-2025
- BBC News
Huddersfield railway station to close for 30 days for route upgrade
Huddersfield railway station is to shut for 30 days between August and September while engineering work takes place on the track and trains will run through the station between 30 August and 29 September, with diversionary routes and rail replacement buses in operation, according to Network the closure, only three platforms will reopen on a temporary basis, as work on the multibillion-pound Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) Hope, TRU sponsor, said the scheme was "key to improving the journeys of millions of people across the north". The closure will enable the track and platforms to be remodelled, which will "transform the layout of the station and enable more trains with more seats to run through the area on a greener, more reliable railway," according to Network work will also enable future upgrades, including the installation of a new footbridge and the restoration of the Grade II listed tea rooms, to take to restore a section of the railway station's canopy roof has already been Hope said the work was "one of the most important projects across the entire TRU programme".He added the 30-day closure will "allow us to take a giant leap towards giving the station a deserved makeover without harming its heritage".Brighouse railway station will be the "gateway to Huddersfield" during the closure, a spokesperson for the project said. Listen to highlights from West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North.
BBC News
20-02-2025
- General
- BBC News
Work completed on Bradford Forster Square railway arches gates
Work to close off ten archways next to Bradford Forster Square station by installing metal gates with artistic designs has been arches, which were once used by rough sleepers, were cleared by the council in charities branded the decision to move a group of people living in tents on from the area as "heartless" but Bradford Civic Society welcomed artworks on the metal gates include a poem written by a former Bradford schoolgirl. Commuter Michael O'Brien, 64, from Bradford, said the new gates were an improvement."I've got nothing against homeless people, but it was the first thing you saw when you came in and also it just felt dangerous," he said."If anybody is going to come into Bradford, especially women, and you need people to come for a night out, it really was the most uninviting entrance to the city." However, he said it would have been "great" if the archways could have been used for shops and cafes. Hannah Al, who has lived in Bradford all her life, said the gates were "just another hit to homeless people". "It was one of the only places where they could have a little bit of shelter and even that's been taken away," she said."I've lived her all my life and people have always taken shelter there." Jordan Payton, 26, is a joiner from Bradford and said he felt it was "disgusting" that the gates had been put in."At least they knew where the homeless people were and what they were doing," he said."If they're there in a tent they can be checked on, can't they?"He said rough sleepers had moved on to other areas along the who did not want to give her surname, was also unimpressed. "It doesn't look that pretty, to be honest, they look quite old and rusty already," she said."I know the homeless used to sit in the arches and it would protect them from the elements. I've never had an issue walking down here." A Bradford Council spokesperson said the project aimed to improve the area around the station and the work was paid for by Network council's homeless outreach partnership team visited the arches on a daily basis to speak to rough sleepers ahead of access to the area being withdrawn, the spokesperson previously metal panel features three intertwining strands to represent Bradford Beck, a fibre from the city's mill heritage and the railway tracks. The strands also reflect the Fibre sculptures near the station at St Blaise Square, so named after the patron saint of wool Alex Ross-Shaw said: "This artwork literally threads together the history of our incredible district, with words of hope which take us into the future."People of Bradford are proud of our heritage and at the same time hopeful for what is to come, and rightly so."It's fitting that we are welcoming people to the city at the station with beautiful words which reflect that pride and hope."Listen to highlights from West 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.
