Xmas 2009 – New Year 2010

Just received details from METRO if you are venturing out and about.

Here are the detailed train service arrangements for the West Yorkshire area over the Christmas and New Year holiday period 2009/10 which you may find useful. I hope I’ve picked it all up right!

Northern local services will operate normally, apart from early closedowns on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve when trains will operate until approximately 2000 and will then start to run down. Few late evening trains after 2200 will run. First TransPennine Express will operate similarly with some evening trains terminating short of advertised destination. No rail services will operate on Christmas Day and Boxing Day. On New Year’s Day there will be some early morning Northern cancellations before 0700 after which the normal weekday service will operate. 

Full details of Northern and First TransPennine Express alterations throughout the period are included including cancelled and amended trains, last and first trains operated on each route. Details of other long distance operators’ altered trains are not included. Please refer to each operator’s web site for full timetables for each day. The new East Coast operator will be operating special timetables throughout the holiday period with reduced frequencies on some days.  NXEC will be handing over operation to DfT Directly Operated Railways from midnight tonight. First TransPennine Express, CrossCountry and East Midlands Trains’ services will be subject to alteration throughout the period. For the first time First TransPennine Express will not be operating late evening and overnight trains on New Year’s Eve/ New Year’s Day.

There will be some engineering works affecting local train services over the weekend of 2/3 January 2010 with widespread disruption on the Caldervale Line between Leeds and Bradford Interchange and on the Hallam and Penistone Lines.

A new rail timetable will be introduced on Sunday 13 December 2009. Timetables for each route are now available on the Metro web at http://www.wymetro.com/TrainTravel/traintimetables/ The Network book will follow shortly. Hard copies will be available by the end of November

New 2009/2010 National Timetable

Click below for the full national timetable starting 13 December.

http://www.networkrail.co.uk/aspx/4178.aspx

London bound?

Good news for London-bound passengers who do not like going via Leeds or Manchester.

The following times have been decided by Network Rail – watch out for when they start in 2010.

East Coast Main Line SLC2 Timetable

Issued 16th October 2009

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Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd Registered Office 40 Melton Street, London NW1 2EE Registered in England and Wales No. 2904587 www.networkrail.co.uk

Doc # 360246.01

4.5.3 The Grand Northern Bradford paths are shown in the table below.

                                       1A59      1A63      1A67

Bradford                    06.30     10.22     15.46

Kings Cross                09.51    13.45     19.08

                                                   1D71      1D73      1D75

                Kings Cross            10.48    14.48     19.48

                Bradford                13.53       17.53     22.57

 4.5.4 Northern Rail Selby – Wakefield Westgate service flexed on the

hours when Grand Northern operates between Bradford and Halifax with no extension to journey times.

There should be the opportunity to make a comfortable connection into the first  departure to London off the 06.20 departure from t’Royd. Likewise, if on time, the last train should connect with the 23.00 from Halifax to t’Royd.

Then there is the interesting  journey round Pontefract, Knottingley and the Askern branch line to Doncaster and the East Coast Main Line to London.

Great to have a new trip opportunity, let us hope it is successful.

However, competitors Stagecoach have introduced a service from Halifax to London

http://www.megabusplus.com/

This could have a serious affect on the proposed train service, especially as a return fare can be less than £10 and the overall journey time will not be much more.

timetable

Disclaimer: Information about new train times is obtained from the National Rail Journey Planner or the timetable supplied by Metro. Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the data but the Station Partnership cannot be held responsible for any errors.

Please check your train times with National Rail or locally before travelling.