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New train timetables but diversions still causing most significant change

Work is continuing this week on new trackwork, station and bridges at Deighton during the line closure.
Train companies introduced new timetables on Sunday (May 17) but they have little more than minor tweaks as engineering work, particularly on the TransPennine Route Upgrade, continues to cause changes from those timetables.

Train travellers continue to face a series of disruptions on weekdays as well as at weekends until after the Spring Bank Holiday on Tuesday May 26. After very few days of normal service, a new series of diversions will be introduced on the north TransPennine Express route involving trains diverting between Leeds and Huddersfield through Wakefield and not calling at Dewsbury.

Passengers are urged to check journey planners for the best route to travel, which may involve trains diverting on longer routes, some trains with curtailed routes, more changes than usual, or bus replacements for all or part of the journey. Services this week are as follows:

Monday to Friday

From Monday May 3 until Tuesday May 26, after the Spring Bank Holiday, there will only be a limited service of weekday trains from Huddersfield operating towards Manchester Piccadilly or towards Sheffield. Northbound destinations, including Leeds, will require journeys to start on replacement bus, usually directly to Brighouse. There will also be a replacement bus via Deighton and Mirfield to Wakefield Kirkgate.

An amended service of TransPennine Express trains will be diverting via the Calder Valley line and calling at Brighouse instead of Huddersfield. Replacement bus to Brighouse will usually be the easiest and quickest option from Huddersfield for reaching Leeds and stations beyond although journey times to Leeds will be at least double the usual train time.

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Westbound TransPennine Express trains will only be operating from Huddersfield to Manchester Piccadilly but it should be possible to change there to services to Manchester Airport and to services to Liverpool. At certain times it is possible to change at Stalybridge to reach Manchester Victoria. A replacement bus will also run between Manchester Airport and Brighouse via Stockport but not Huddersfield.

A normal weekday service should be in operation from Huddersfield along the Penistone line to Barnsley and Sheffield. Passengers travelling from Shepley and Denby Dale to Leeds may find it quicker to travel by train changing at Barnsley than their usual route via Huddersfield.

Saturday and Sunday

Work on a station footbridge at Huddersfield is expected to be completed by the end of May when steps to the subway will be temporarily taken out of use.At weekends during this period there will continue to be no trains, only bus replacements, with train services resuming from Lockwood for Sheffield; from Marsden for Manchester Piccadilly (direct buses also available); from Brighouse for Halifax, Bradford, Leeds and TransPennine Express services; and from Wakefield Kirkgate for services via Castleford to York.

Work will be continuing until early next year on major internal alterations to the Grade I listed Huddersfield station which will increase the number of through platforms to four when complete. Work is also taking place on renewing the main internal station roof, extending the subway, installing a new footbridge and completing bridge renewal and alterations on to Huddersfield Viaduct. Part of the work during the May closure will involve relaying track at Deighton and near Bradley Junction.

Planned road closures

B6118 Colne Bridge Road at Colne Bridge: closed from 5am on Monday May 18 to 8pm on Friday July 10
and between further dates in July and August.

Fitzwilliam Street at Huddersfield Viaduct: closed until July 31.

St George's Square (George Hotel side and car park): long-term temporary closure. Railway Street remains open in both directions.

Normal service bus stops in Railway Street/St George's Square are suspended while rail replacement bus services are in operation.

Check details of your journey at the National Rail website.

For more information about work on this line see the TransPennine Route Upgrade website.

Kirklees Council meeting on Wednesday will set way ahead

Reform UK will occupy most seats at Huddersfield Town Hall
The annual Kirklees Council meeting is due to take place on Wednesday (May 20) at which the mayor and deputy mayor are elected and members appointed to the various committees involved in running the council.

It follows the election of all 69 council seats in Kirklees on Thursday May 7 which left a much-changed composition of the council but still no party in overall control.

Labour were the largest party before but lost all the seats they held while Reform UK became the largest party with 29 seats.

There were also big gains for the Green Party who increased their number of seats from 4 to 12.

The election was for all seats of Kirklees Council after a review of ward boundaries which left some electors in different and renamed wards.

Since the election, headlines have been dominated by national issues such as the Labour party leadership, but this week it will come down to the reality of what the election was actually about, such as who controls the pursestrings for such issues as bin collections, schools, road maintenance, libraries, care for the elderly and disabled, parks and development control.

What is now elected as the largest party, Reform UK, is largely an unknown quantity on the scene of local administration. It will be particularly interesting to see the local budgetary ideas of the Reform UK party which, on its national website, has published a visionary policy for establishing Britain as a global leader in cryptocurrency, which has policy for slimming down the civil service and which promises a welfare system which supports only British citizens who cannot get by without Government help.

Here's a recap of how the voting went:

2026 Results

Reform UK''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' 29
Independent'''''''''''''' 14
Green Party'''''''''''' 12
Conservative''''''''' 9
Liberal Democrat''''' 5

Before this election

Labour''''''''''''''''' 17
Labour & Cooperative'''''' 6
Conservative'''''''''''''''' 16
Independent'''''''''''' 12
Liberal Democrat''''''''' 9
Green Party'''' 4
Community Alliance'' 2
Kirklees Community Independents Group'' 2
Vacancy• 1

Tour de France Women come to Huddersfield in 2027

The Tour de France headed towards Holme Moss in West Yorkshire in 2014The Tour de France Grand Départ returns to Yorkshire in 2027 and stage one of the Women's competition will come through Huddersfield on its Day 1.

The prestigious event boosted a massive interest in cycling in Yorkshire when the men's race Grand Départ was held in Yorkshire in 2014.

The Tour returns with the first two days of the women's race partly in Yorkshire next year while the men's Scotland to Wales Grand Départ also reaches into historic Yorkshire.

The first day for the Tour de France Femmes will start in Leeds on Friday July 30, 2027, to head over the Pennines to Manchester.

The route will head into Huddersfield via Wakefield Road and out towards Meltham via Chapel HillThe route will cross Kirklees on the 85.7km stage. It will pass through Birkenshaw, Birstall, Gomersal, Heckmondwike and Mirfield on its route into Huddersfield via the mountain stage "Côte de Kirkheaton" and Moldgreen. The route continues out of town via Netherton, South Crosland and Meltham with another mountain stage, the "Côte de Meltham", towards Wessenden Head before crossing the moor towards Greenfield, Uppermill and Delph on its way to a finish in Manchester city centre.

The following day the race will head back along a winding and hilly route through the Derbyshire part of the Peak District from Manchester to end in Sheffield.

The third day of the women's race will be in London before the cyclists head off to France.

Before the women's races, the men's Grand Départ will also have been held be in Britain, briefly dipping into historic Yorkshire as it heads through the Trough of Bowland on its second day on Saturday July 3. Day 1 of the men's race heads from Scotland to England with a stage from Edinburgh to Carlisle. The short stretch of historic Yorkshire is on the Keswick to Liverpool stage on Day 2. The third day is in Wales with a stage from Welshpool to Cardiff.

Further areas cordoned off for Piazza scheme

The new library is nearly complete while the green space of the piazza has now been ripped up as a further area around the old library is cordoned off for the buildersMore areas of Huddersfield town centre have been fenced off as work on alterations to the Piazza extend to the back of the town's former library building.

The 1930s building is to be extended at its rear as part of work to turn it into a museum. The green space of the Piazza has also been dug over until a new Town Park is eventually created.

The new library building is nearing completion and is due to be opened in late summer this year.

A food hall at the former Queensgate Market, shown to the public at an open day last September, is now set to be delayed in its opening until the Spring of next year after the additional expense of fitting it out.

Inside the progressing work on the new food hall at September's Heritage Open Day eventIn March, senior council officers asked for an extra £3m to be taken from later phases of the regeneration scheme "to assist with ongoing commercial negotiations" on top of £1m already approved. The council is looking to lease the food hall to an operator, but fit-out costs are now set to be a council expense.

Kirklees Council has planned the redevelopment of the area around the former Market Hall which has seen the demolition of part of the Market building to allow a new public square to be created in front of the old library building and beside the Town Hall.

The listed part of the Market building with its unique airy roof design and sculptured panels along Queensgate is being retained as part of the new food hall, social dining area and part of the new library.

A model of the proposed Cultural Heart plansEventually a town park is planned to stretch from the public square to the corner of King Street and Queen Street.