Rail travel in and around Huddersfield
Huddersfield 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. Weekday work complete for now but train disruption continues this weekend beyond Leeds and Wakefield
The current phase of work which has been disrupting Huddersfield-Leeds train services through Dewsbury and Batley on weekdays is now complete but there will be bus replacement of services from Huddersfield beyond Leeds and Wakefield this weekend.The weekend work will mean replacement buses for all services normally operating between Leeds and York via Garforth. There will not be the diverting TransPennine Express trains between Leeds and York that have operated over the past few weekends. The much longer Northern train service between Leeds and York via Harrogate will operate, but journeys take longer than the hour taken by the replacement bus service. TransPennine Express Liverpool - Hull services will use a diversion route between Leeds and Selby.
Also this weekend there will be buses replacing sections of journeys on the East Coast Main Line between Doncaster and York with some services cancelled. This also affects the TransPennine Express Manchester to York via Huddersfield and Wakefield Kirkgate service which will have bus replacement of the section of the journey between Wakefield and York.
With buses rather than diverting trains operating between York and Leeds, TransPennine Express should be operating trains from Huddersfield all the way to Manchester Airport this weekend.
TransPennine Express and Northern services resume their normal routes through Dewsbury this weekend, including weekday services from Monday. This comes after three weeks of weekday work on the line between Leeds and Ravensthorpe including upgrading track at Batley and preparations for electrification of the line.
More about work on this line at the 
TransPennine Route Upgrade
TransPennine Route Upgrade Check details of your journey at the National Rail website.
National RailRail map
For more datails on local services see:
— includes TransPennine Express trains to
— includes TransPennine Express stopping trains to
— TransPennine Express Monday to Saturday two-hourly trains to
— 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.
— Northern trains to
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).
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