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Monday 23 Feb 2026

Rail services between Huddersfield and Leeds to be impacted during May & June as part of major upgrade works

Region & Route:

Eastern

Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) rail engineering work will be undertaken throughout May and June, with significant disruption expected between Huddersfield and Leeds.

In addition, trains will not call at Huddersfield on weekends in April.

These closures will enable the safe delivery of critical infrastructure upgrades, including track and drainage renewals, bridge works, signalling improvements, and significant station enhancements along the route between Huddersfield and Leeds. This series of upgrade works will help deliver faster, more frequent services on a greener, more reliable railway.

Customers are being urged to check their journey in advance at nationalrail.co.uk before travelling.

Wherever possible, customers will remain on trains, using diversionary routes or services running as close as possible to the closure areas. However, journey times will change, and some customers may need to use rail replacement buses for part of their trip.

Brighouse station will be used as a rail and bus interchange location for those travelling to or from Huddersfield during affected periods.

 

Paul Sumner, TRU Senior Sponsor, said:

“We understand the ongoing work will cause some disruption, and we’d like to thank everybody for their patience throughout this period.

“The Transpennine Route Upgrade will bring major benefits, including more trains, more seats and faster, more reliable journeys across the North. These improvements, from electrifying the route to upgrading stations and modernising signalling, will help create a greener, more dependable railway that better serves local communities for years to come.”

 

Andrew Allwright, TRU Programme Delivery Lead for Northern, said:

“TRU has made a lot of progress on the route between Huddersfield and Leeds over the last few years, and will continue to do so over the next few months, delivering once in a generation upgrades for our customers that will improve accessibility at our stations, as well as improving  the reliability of the railway and enabling future upgrade works to take place along that corridor.

“While these works are being carried out over the coming months, our services will be operating to an amended timetable and in some instances, rail replacement buses will be in operation. Due to the scale of the upcoming work, we would advise that our customers check before they travel at www.nationrail.co.uk.”