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New train timetables
While there was little chenge to the base timetables for services in the Huddersfield area, there will be some significant changes seen in temporary timetables during various phases of work on the Trans-Pennine line upgrade, including closure of Huddersfield station through September.
Before then there is Monday to Friday work affecting services between Ravensthorpe and Leeds from May 26 to 30 followed by the weekend of May 31 and June 1 when there are no direct trains between Huddersfield and Leeds.
More detail on the tinetable changes on the interactive rail map at
Yorkshire.guide .

More about work on this line at the
TransPennine Route Upgrade website.

Check details of your journey at the
National Rail website.

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Holme Valley loses services in bus timetable changes
The changes in the Huddersfield area are to First Bus routes with bus services between Huddersfield and the Holme Valley facing further cuts.
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Other services with retimings are
Further details of affected services can be found at this
Metro - Service changes webpage.

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Opportunities to climb Castle Hill's Victoria Tower
The tower is opening each day from Tuesday May 27 to Friday May 30.
The landmark stone tower of Castle Hill is little more than 120 years old, but the hilltop is possibly the most ancient fortified site of Yorkshire. The hilltop, with its earthwork ramparts, is a scheduled ancient monument with evidence of human habitation dating back more than 4,000 years to the Bronze Age, around the end of the period when stone circles were arranged at Stonehenge in Wiltshire.
The tower was completed in 1899 to commemorate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee two years earlier.
Find out more at 'Victoria Tower' at the
Kirklees Community Directory .

New leisure venue opens at Kingsgate
The Light was able to welcome its first visitors through the doors inside the Kingsgate shopping centre on Friday April 11.
Much construction work has taken place to create the £250m cinema and leisure complex, including raising the height of the building in the area previously occupied by the House of Fraser department store.
The Light offers a multi-screen cinema, bowling, laser games, mini golf, climbing centre, street curling, axe throwing, shooting, interactive darts, karaoke, arcade games among its activities together with food and drink.
Walls come down but unique roof stands at former market
Kirklees Council plans to redevelop the area around the Market Hall. The plans include demolition of part of the Market building to form a new public square in front of the library and beside the Town Hall.
A town park will stretch from the public square to the corner of King Street and Queen Street. The old library building is due to be retained as a museum.
The work means that bus stops in Peel Street have been taken out of use with the bus station now the only stop for the routes which used them.
Second building taking shape at new health campus
The first construction on the site was completed earlier this year and has been named the Daphne Steele Building. Daphne Steele was a nurse who came to the UK in 1951 from what was then British Guiana, now Guyana, to work in the recently-formed NHS. She became a matron at St Winifred's Hospital, Ilkley in 1964.
The new campus aims to lead healthcare innovation across the North of England and will feature a health and wellbeing academy, research and specialist clinical teaching facilities and public-facing features including a podiatry clinic, sports and physiotherapy clinic and health coaching by video link.
The site had been vacant since the demolition of Ibbotson and Lonsbrough Flats and the former Huddersfield Sports Centre while an earlier plan for a new Tesco store on the site was abandoned.
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