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Huddersfield station closed this weekend

Work is planned on the bridge on the A62 at Leeds RoadBridge installation work on the A62 Leeds Road at Deighton is among much work scheduled as part of the TransPennine Route Upgrade this weekend (July 5-6) which will see Huddersfield and Colne Valley stations closed to trains.

The higher bridge will allow the eventual electrification of the line between Huddersfield and Leeds.

Track renewal will also take place at Deighton, work continues on the Huddersfield Viaduct and there will also be work in Huddersfield Tunnel and Gledholt Tunnel.

Huddersfield station will only have replacement buses, including a service to Brighouse to link to TransPennine Express trains between Manchester, Leeds and beyond diverting on the long Calder Valley route with an additional stop at Brighouse. However, those trains will not be reaching Manchester Airport directly and there is a replacement bus on a Brighouse - Huddersfield - Stockport - Manchester Airport route.

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Local stopping train services normally running between Bradford and Huddersfield and between Huddersfield and Leeds will be combined into one Bradford to Leeds via Brighouse service not reaching Deighton and Huddersfield. They will run from Halifax to Leeds via Brighouse on Sunday. The Northern Wigan - Manchester Victoria - Brighouse - Leeds stopping service should be operating its usual Saturday service and Grand Central services through Brighouse should also be able to operate normally.

Marsden and Slaithwaite will be stops on a replacement bus service between Stalybridge and Huddersfield. Passengers are advised to check stop locations some distance away from the railway stations.

Other replacement buses from Huddersfield will cover stations normally reached by TransPennine Express services towards Wakefield Kirkgate, including Deighton and Mirfield and with an additional stop at Dewsbury. Trains to York via Castleford resume at Wakefield Kirkgate.

A replacement bus will make the journey from Huddersfield to Lockwood to catch trains on the Penistone line towards Sheffield.

More detail 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.

Art and ducks in Holmfirth

Holmfirth Civic Hall holds the main exhibitionHolmfirth Artweek opens this Sunday (July 6) featuring more than 400 exhibitors and 2,000-plus artworks.

The event has been run since 1966 and raises many thousands of pounds each year for charity.

The major open art exhibition at Holmfirth Civic Hall runs until Saturday July 12, but there are also many fringe exhibits as more than 50 artists present a huge range of media at their studios and art spaces between the Holme and Colne Valleys.

Coinciding with the first day of Artweek on Sunday (July 6) is the Holmfirth Duck Race, a separate annual event organised by Huddersfield Round Table which has now been held for more than 40 years. The charity event sees hundreds of plastic ducks launched into the River Holme from the Victoria Street bridge at 2pm. A gala is held at the Sands Recreation Field near the finish line from 11am to 4.30pm. Ducks usually take around an hour to reach the finish.

More details at

Holmfirth Artweek or

Holmfirth Duck Race websites.

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Rematch for Town for first match of new League One season

The John Smith's StadiumThe new League One season for Huddersfield Town will start on August 2 as the last season ended with a home game against Leyton Orient.

The match on Saturday August 2 (3pm) will see a new Town team under a new manager hoping to do better than their last match of the 2024-25 season on May 3 when the Terriers were defeated 1-4 at home by Leyton.

There are new signings in the Town team established by new manager Lee Grant, who joined the club in May.

Lee Grant, a former goalkeeper most recently assistant coach at Ipswich Town, joined Huddersfield Town on a three-year contract in his first role as manager.

At Ipswich he saw consecutive promotions from League One to the Championship then Premier League, although the club has now fallen back into the Championship.

Lee Grant ended his playing days in 2022 after a 22-year career as goalkeeper which saw his first match appearances at Derby County and also included periods at Burnley, Oldham Athletic, Sheffield Wednesday and Stoke City before ending his days in the squad at Manchester United. He also has England Under-21 team caps.

As Town started to warm-up for the new season a friendly match was played at local Northern Premier League Division One East club Emley AFC on Saturday June 28. Town were defeated 3-1 by the home team in a match divided into thirds in which Town were able to try out two different teams and in the final third their Young Terriers.

Find out more at the Huddersfield Town official website.

Opportunities to climb Castle Hill's Victoria Tower

Jubilee Tower, Castle Hill and Huddersfield on February 28, 2025The Victoria Tower at Castle Hill opens for visitors to climb its steps for a small fee on various dates, providing the chance to look inside the tower and see the view from the top.

The tower opens next Saturday (July 5).

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 .

Second building taking shape at new health campus

The new building in Leeds Road is taking shape next to the recently completed Daphne Steele buildingThe second building of the University of Huddersfield's new National Health Innovation Campus at the ring road junction of Southgate and Leeds Road is now well under way.

The first construction on the site was officially opened last November 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.

Work continues on new supermarket

A new Lidl store is being built at the corner of Castlegate and Trinity StreetAreas around Huddersfield town centre may seem like a succession of building sites at the moment, but another development now well under way is a new Lidl store at the corner of the Castlegate ring road and Trinity Street.

Steelwork is now in place there for a new large Lidl supermarket next to the remaining former Kirklees College building, which was previously the Huddersfield Technical College and originally the Huddersfield Royal Infirmary.

Food hall being created beneath former market's unique roof

The new Food Hall makes use of the roof structure of the former marketWork continues at the former Queensgate Market and Piazza site in Huddersfield town centre with plans to create a social dining area, new public square and library.

Kirklees Council has planned the redevelopment of the area around the former Market Hall. It 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 are being retained as part of a new Food Hall, social dining area and part of a new library.

A model of the proposed Cultural Heart plansEventually 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.

Buses have been diverted from bus stops in Peel Street while demolition work continued.

New leisure venue opens at Kingsgate

The King Street entrance of the new leisure venue this Friday morningHuddersfield's newest leisure venue has been opened at the Kingsgate Centre in Huddersfield.

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.