Monday 3 Nov 2008
ON TRACK AT BRADFORD
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Nine days of intensive rail engineering works at Bradford Interchange finished on schedule this morning as services resumed from the station.
Network Rail is investing £8.5m on works to track, station buffers and signals to improve passenger services at the station. The company took advantage of the school holidays, when there are traditionally fewer travellers, to complete complex works.
Warrick Dent, area general manager for Network Rail, said: "The massive amount of work we have carried out at Bradford is to get rid of an historic bottle neck. It will speed up journey times between Leeds and Bradford by up to a minute and a half and will also mean that we can bring trains from Halifax in to platform one at the same time as a service from Leeds comes into platform two or four."
Steve Butcher, area director, Northern Rail said: "Passengers will benefit from more reliable journey times once this work is complete. It will also help us deliver more journey opportunities for our customers along the Calder Valley with the introduction of our new timetable in December, including a fast service between Bradford and Manchester taking less than an hour."
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