Rail travel
in and around Huddersfield
Huddersfield The station was being used by around five million passenger journeys per year before the numbers were hit by the Covid pandemic, strikes, engineering diversions and cancellations. Periods of closure for the Transpennine Route Upgrade have hit passenger numbers again in the most recent usage estimates announced in December 2025 for the period from April 2024 to March 2025. There were an estimated 3,136,040 entries and exits at the station during that period. However, Huddersfield still maintains its position as the fifth-busiest station across all Yorkshire, behind Leeds, York, Sheffield and Doncaster. Huddersfield is usually served by more than 200 trains a day. They offer direct services to and from more than 80 destinations throughout the north of England, with connecting services to many other places. More than 100 stations can be reached from Huddersfield in under an hour. Travel to London
Huddersfield has no direct train services to London, but has a huge number of options to reach London via connecting services. Best value is likely to be a big factor in choosing a route. These include:• TPE to Leeds to change to LNER services to King's Cross
• TPE to York to change to LNER services to King's Cross
• TPE to Wakefield Kirkgate, then Northern to Wakefield Westgate, then LNER to King's Cross
• TPE to Mirfield or to Wakefield Kirkgate to take Grand Central to King's Cross
• Northern to Brighouse (currently replacement bus journey via Deighton), then Grand Central to King's Cross
• TPE to Manchester Piccadilly changing to Avanti West Coast to Euston
• Northern to Sheffield then East Midlands Railway to St Pancras
The fastest weekday journey as at the new December 2025 timetable is one taking 2 hours 31 minutes involving a 13-minute change from TransPennine Express to LNER at Leeds. This time is an exception rather than the rule as other journeys via Leeds typically take around 2 hours 52 minutes. The fastest journeys changing at York also now take around this time because of more trains operating non-stop from York to King's Cross.
Strangely a journey relying on two changes offers the fastest journeys through most if the day. Changing at Wakefield Kirkgate and Wakefield Westgate achieves a Huddersfield to London time of around 2 hours 41 minutes.
It is now possible to get to London in as little as 2 hours 48 minutes changing to one of the Grand Central trains at Brighouse, but the replacement bus on its meandering route via Deighton to Brighouse may not provide a particularly impressive start to such a journey at present and trains to Mirfield fail to provide reasonable connection times.
Changing to Avanti West Coast at Manchester Piccadilly can offer journeys in as little as 2 hours 51 minutes, but most journeys are closer to 3 hours 20 minutes. Travelling to change at Sheffield takes a long time to cover the first 30 miles and the journey time changing to East Midlands Railway there is typically around 3 hours 20 minutes.
Weekday and weekend train diversions for 16-day closure
A big effort is made day and night to bring work at Huddersfield station nearer to completion along with further work on the rebuilding of
The seven stations on the Huddersfield line closed at the weekend will again be closed during the final weekend of the 16 days — Mossley, Greenfield,
In the meantime, Mossley, Greenfield and Marsden are open again for trains towards Manchester.
TransPennine Express services are being diverted between Leeds and Manchester Victoria via the longer Calder Valley line, calling at Brighouse instead of Huddersfield with bus replacement between Brighouse and Huddersfield. A few of these trains will have extra stops on the Calder Valley line in place of missing Northern services, in particular the service normally operating between Leeds and Wigan via Dewsbury.
Trains to Manchester Airport are disrupted. On weekdays a replacement bus from Brighouse via Huddersfield offers an option that avoids having to transit between Manchester stations. On Saturdays it will be possible to change at Manchester Victoria to trains to the airport from Stalybridge and on Sundays there will be some through trains from Yorkshire operating via Brighouse.
Until the final weekend of the present closure (October 3-4), trains are scheduled to operate between Manchester Piccadilly and stations to Marsden with bus replacement from Marsden station to Slaithwaite and Huddersfield. There are also bus replacements between Stalybridge and Huddersfield, due to the access by steps only at Marsden, and a direct bus service is also running between Manchester Piccadilly and Huddersfield. During the final weekend there will not be the trains between Stalybridge and Marsden.
Services to Huddersfield from Sheffield via Barnsley and Penistone are terminating at Lockwood for bus replacement into Huddersfield.
Services from York via Castleford are terminating at Wakefield Kirkgate. No replacement bus service is scheduled between Wakefield, Mirfield and Huddersfield on this occasion and travellers will need to find other routes.
The Northern service currently timetabled to operate from Bradford Interchange to Leeds via stations including Halifax, Brighouse, Mirfield and Dewsbury should be operating during this period.
Passengers are urged to check full details of their journey on the day of travel and also possible higher fares than usual on replacement buses not offering the cheaper advance fare tickets of train journeys.
Please visit operators websites for more information and timetables.
Check details of your journey at the 
National Rail
National Rail For more information about work on this line see the TransPennine Route Upgrade website.
TransPennine Route Upgrade For more details on local services see:
— includes TransPennine Express stopping trains to
— includes TransPennine Express trains calling at Dewsbury or operating directly to Leeds and beyond. For hourly TransPennine Express trains calling at Mirfield see the York-bound trains on our
— TransPennine Express hourly trains run every day to
*Deighton station is long-term temporarily closed until 2027 and has a bus replacement service.
— The usual route for hourly Northern trains is to Brighouse, Halifax, Low Moor and Bradford Interchange (continuing on Sundays via New Pudsey and Bramley to Leeds), however until the completion of replacement platforms as part of the TransPennine Route Upgrade at Huddersfield the train service is restricted to one early morning journey from Huddersfield each day and one Saturday late evening train from Bradford to Huddersfield. At other times it will be necessary to change to join the diverting train service starting from Leeds via Dewsbury and Mirfield before picking up this route at Brighouse towards Bradford (only to Halifax on Sundays). A 25-minute bus replacement journey is operating between Huddersfield and Brighouse or other alternatives might be to take a TransPennine Express train to connect with the diversion service running in the opposite direction at either Mirfield or Dewsbury. Some late evening journeys may involve bus replacement between Huddersfield and Halifax. Train journeys to Bradford might at times be more quickly achieved with a change at Leeds.
There are similar implications for those who normally use the above train to connect to the Monday to Saturday Calder Valley service at Brighouse.
— Northern trains to
Please check timetables or with rail operators for full and up-to-date details. This travel study is provided for general guidance.
Useful web links
The website of West Yorkshire passenger transport authority Metro offers live departure information for all stations and for bus stops in West Yorkshire together with timetables. National Rail offers a journey planner and live station departure and arrival information across the country.
Metro West Yorkshire passenger transport authority Metro's website (external link).National Rail National Rail Enquiries and journey planner (external link).
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