{"id":711795,"date":"2026-07-26T09:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T09:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/711795\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T09:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T09:51:08","slug":"direct-route-between-hull-and-bradford-to-be-scrapped-by-northern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/711795\/","title":{"rendered":"Direct route between Hull and Bradford to be scrapped by Northern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The proposed changes were discussed by West Yorkshire Combined Authority&#8217;s Weaver Network Board on Thursday, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/lnp\/ldrs\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A report to the board said: &#8220;The Hull\u2013Leeds\u2013Bradford\u2013Halifax service has experienced poor reliability for some time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Delays occurring on either side of Leeds often affect the wider route, meaning services are regularly terminated early at Leeds or Bradford and do not reach Halifax as planned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;To improve performance, Northern has proposed that Hull services would terminate at Leeds and no longer continue to Bradford and Halifax.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;To maintain connectivity, the Bradford\u2013Halifax\u2013Huddersfield service would be extended to start and finish at Leeds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The report said members of the combined authority believed there was a &#8220;strong case&#8221; for the changes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Peter Carlill, Labour councillor for Calverley and Farsley, raised concerns about the impact on rail passengers using New Pudsey station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the withdrawal of the service would leave a &#8220;gap&#8221; at peak times in the morning commute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;I regretfully accept the loss of this service if it does bring wider benefits.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The proposed changes were discussed by West Yorkshire Combined Authority&#8217;s Weaver Network Board on Thursday, according to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-711795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}