Sheffield to Gainsborough Central also springs to my mind. Another service that didn’t really have long enough before covid to prove itself. A few peak time journeys have been restored but nothing during the main part of the day. The consequence of this is that passengers travelling from Lincoln still have slow trains stopping at all stations between Sheffield and Worksop.
Bentham has the best service it has had in years - it still isn’t brilliant but with the longest block section in the UK to contend with the odds are kind of stacked against it.
I've no idea how it the longest block section in the UK has anything to do with reducing the service to 6 return journeys a day. The reduction has been occasioned by simply removing trains from the timetable, as opposed to any wholesale rewrite.
Nothing to do with me.
Haha
And the 1018 ex Leeds is back - which pleases me (and yorksrob).
I wouldn't count your chickens before they hatch... Who knows whether the line won't be the subject of yet another 'temporary' (or otherwise) timetable cutback.
I am not sure about a service to South Humberside but, if true, the permanent withdrawal of the Huddersfield to Castleford service is a disgrace. Who has taken this decision? Northern? Transport forApparently the Castleford - Huddersfield service has now been axed and won't be making a return (although the skeletal service still remains for the moment it seems)
Despite this Yvette Cooper somehow reckons there is plenty of potential for a direct West Yorkshire to South Humberside link(!)
Campaigners call for better rail services in Pontefract and Castleford
Pontefract Civic Society and MP Yvette Cooper are calling on the government to act now to improve rail services in the five towns.
Campaigners call for better rail services in Pontefract and Castleford
Pontefract Civic Society and MP Yvette Cooper are calling on the government to act now to improve rail services in the five towns.www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk
I am waiting for the Christmas period to end and then will contact my MP about the shameful service Northern are (not) operating on the Sheffield tor Doncaster line. Formerly a stopping train every 30 minutes this was reduced to hourly with the first train axed. Tomorrow they have cut the service even further with a third of the trains already cancelled. It is high time Northern were challenged as to their rationale. We are not talking about rural halts here but with stations such as Rotherham (700k pax per year) and Swinton (400k). I cannot help but think this is deliberately engineered. Whether it be Reversing Beeching, levelling up or reducing carbon emissions the government are doing the exact opposite of what they say.
With the right path, an hourly Huddersfield-Wakefield service could be delivered with just one unit - it's a journey time of 24 minutes so, in theory, doable. It would certainly be more efficient and useful than having one unit do a two hourly service through to Castleford a handful of times a day.
I understood there were plans to reinstate the second platform at Castleford. Is that correct? This will require a new accessible footbridge (unless the subway can be used). How does this stck up with cutting this service as there seems to be no prospect of a service to York.
In a separate thread it has been reported there may (or will?) be a TPE service going that way; this might just be temporary during the TP route upgrade, though. If you do a search on the forum you should find it. There is also a speculative thread to discuss what changes people would like to see.
There are lots of things in the works but for the time being (i.e. the next couple of years) there is little prospect of things improving significantly.
Basically two buses an hour with Arriva (231/232) during the day. Not much help for Mirfield, mind- that requires a change in Dewsbury.
I've taken the 232 in the past, it's quite well patronised at the Wakefield end. No idea whether I could bear it for the full distance though. Better to take the more comfortable 126/7 and then the train from Dewsbury.
Quite. I wonder which members of government have shares in it.
www.arrivabus.co.uk
I don't think we need to resort to conspiracy theories - but (if we are talking about the Swinton area then) the subsidised railway has meant that the directly competing bus routes have dwindled away over the years since there's no way that commercial bus services could compete - from memory Swinton to Sheffield was the X40/X90 (X91?) - once with bendibuses - but the only Sheffield route that runs in that area is the X78 (which runs direct from Rotherham to Conisbrough, avoiding the dog-leg that the railway takes via Swinton, but serving a lot of suburban Rotherham instead) - there were a handful of contra-peak journeys on the X74 which were more about placing journeys (since the depot in Rotherham was closed, so the 22a/22c Rotherham - Wath circular is operated from Sheffield - plus the minor amount of passengers travelling to the large call centre in the Dearne Valley that I understand has now closed)
The X78 is only half as frequent as it used to be (First used to run it every ten minutes with brand new double deckers in 2007 replaced with brand new double deckers in 2015 with branded seats and other mod-cons - but then reduced to a single decker every twenty minutes - now generally double deckers every twenty minutes)
Damn, beat me to it!
(plenty of Wakefield - Dewsbury buses and Dewsbury - Huddersfield buses, but the direct ones run via Emley/ Flockton)
1h10 roughly
Arriva Bus
