Huddersfield Railway Station

Rail travel in and around Huddersfield

Huddersfield railway station is the second-busiest in West Yorkshire after Leeds.

The station was being used by around five million passenger journeys per year before the Covid pandemic, problems of high cancellation rates, strikes and engineering diversions and cancellations. Until recently it ranked fourth-busiest in Yorkshire after Leeds, York and Sheffield. However, with passenger numbers not yet recovered, it currently falls into fifth place below Doncaster in the usage estimates at 3.0 million passenger journeys in figures released by the government in November 2024 covering the period of April 2023 to March 2024.

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.

Huddersfield has no direct train services to London, but has a huge number of options to reach London via connecting services. These include travel to Manchester Piccadilly to use Avanti West Coast services to Euston; travel to Leeds or to York or change at both Wakefield Kirkgate and Wakefield Westgate to use LNER services to King's Cross; travel to Brighouse or to Mirfield to use Grand Central services to King's Cross. Travelling south to Sheffield to use East Midlands Railway to St Pancras is an option that is usually much slower than alternatives. The fastest weekday journey as at December 2024 is one taking 2 hours 33 minutes involving a 14-minute change from TransPennine Express to LNER at Leeds. The time is an exception rather than the rule as other journeys typically take from around 2 hours 50 minutes to 3 hours 20 minutes.

Final week for now of weekday rail upgrade work at Dewsbury

Significant train timetable changes continue from Monday to Friday this week (June 16-20) as trains are diverted for a final week for now of weekday work between Ravensthorpe and Leeds on the Trans-Pennine line upgrade. No trains are operating via Dewsbury.

A reduced service of express trains between Huddersfield and Leeds are diverted on a longer route non-stop via Wakefield instead of via Dewsbury. The longer route also means services in the opposite direction do not operate directly to and from Manchester Airport, terminating instead at Manchester Victoria. Reaching the airport means a change of train in Manchester or using a bus replacement service from Huddersfield.

Trains divert at Ravensthorpe to operate via Wakefield instead of DewsburyTransPennine Express services between Manchester Piccadilly and York normally operating via Huddersfield, Deighton, Mirfield, and Wakefield Kirkgate should be operating as normal as should Northern services between Bradford, Halifax, Brighouse and Huddersfield and also Grand Central services from Bradford Interchange to London via Halifax, Brighouse, Mirfield and Wakefield Kirkgate. Bus replacement services serve stops between Huddersfield and Leeds.

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.

For more datails on local services see:

Huddersfield line to Manchester
— includes TransPennine Express trains to Slaithwaite, Marsden and stops to Manchester Piccadilly and an increased frequency of express trains in the new timetable from December 15, 2024, operating to Manchester Victoria, Manchester Airport and Liverpool, with some expresses calling at Stalybridge.

Huddersfield line to Leeds
— includes TransPennine Express stopping trains to Deighton, Mirfield, Ravensthorpe, Dewsbury, Batley, Morley, Cottingley and Leeds and express trains calling at Dewsbury or operating directly to Leeds and beyond with increased frequency in the new timetable from December 15, 2024.

Wakefield connection
— TransPennine Express Monday to Saturday two-hourly trains to Deighton, Mirfield, Wakefield Kirkgate, Normanton, Castleford and York increase to an hourly service every day in the new timetable from December 15, 2024.

Bradford connection
— Northern trains to Brighouse, Halifax, Low Moor and Bradford Interchange, (continuing on Sundays via New Pudsey and Bramley to Leeds). Also connections for upper Calder Valley destinations at Brighouse, Halifax or Mirfield.

Penistone line
— Northern trains to Lockwood, Berry Brow, Honley, Brockholes, Stocksmoor, Shepley, Denby Dale, Penistone and stations to Barnsley and Sheffield.

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).

Also in Huddersfield.guide

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