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Queensgate Square and new library opened
The new public square has been created in front of the old library building and beside the Town Hall. The new library and food hall retains listed parts of the old market building which has a unique roof design and sculpture panels alongside the Queensgate section of the ring road.
Queensgate Square has been chosen as the name for the square, which represents an extension of the previous Princess Alexandra Walk which the Huddersfield population almost always referred to as The Piazza.
There are plans to demolish further buildings around The Shambles and to eventually create a new Town Park, stretching from the public square to the corner of King Street and Queen Street. An area has now been cordoned off around the former Boots store at King Street, Victoria Lane and The Shambles prior to demolition.
Weekday and weekend train diversions during 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.
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National Rail For more information about work on this line see the TransPennine Route Upgrade website.
TransPennine Route Upgrade Market moves into temporary building
Situated between the present building and Tesco it provides space for 36 indoor stalls. There will also normally be around 30 stalls outdoors and a further 28 stalls in Byram Street on larger market days.
General markets will be held in the temporary building on Mondays and Thursdays from 9am to 4pm and second-hand markets on Tuesdays from 9am to 3.30pm and on Saturdays from 9am to 4pm.
Changes as £28m bus station scheme continues
While the bus station will remain open while the changes take place, there are now many stand changes as the drop-off stands of the bus station currently out of action and this means buses weaving forward and backwards from four stands inside the station allocated for drop-offs and sometimes altered stands where they will pick-up.
As well as refurbishment, features of the upgraded bus station will include a front canopy with solar panels, cycle parking, accessible toilets, new shop fronts, new information screens and improved public spaces. Red is to be replaced with green in the colour scheme as Metro is rebranded the Weaver Network.
Tour de France Women come to Huddersfield in 2027
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 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.
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