{"id":813981,"date":"2026-10-26T01:38:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T01:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/813981\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T01:38:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T01:38:43","slug":"bradfords-reform-uk-leader-to-challenge-party-bosses-over-rail-stance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/813981\/","title":{"rendered":"Bradford’s Reform UK leader to challenge party bosses over rail stance"},"content":{"rendered":"

The announcement follows years of campaigning for better rail connections, as well as setbacks,<\/a> with the city often seen as having missed out on major transport investment.<\/p>\n

They include a previous plan to build a new through station on the site of St James’ Market <\/a>off Wakefield Road, which has now been scrapped.<\/p>\n

Place said his administration had been pushing for the Bradford Interchange project since taking control of the council in May and also acknowledged the work done by the previous administration. <\/p>\n

“We’re not solely responsible for it. Of course not. It’s been going on for quite a while,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I’m absolutely delighted that this has been announced on our watch.”<\/p>\n

He said the new station could help boost Bradford’s economy and create more opportunities for young people.<\/p>\n

“We’re here trying to drive it, push it forward, make it bigger, better for young people in Bradford coming forward,” he said.<\/p>\n

“And so we need connectivity and we need to be able to get in and out of the city in a modern way.”<\/p>\n

While the government confirmed plans for the new station, the long-standing ambition for a “through station”, allowing trains to travel across the city rather than reversing out, has not yet been settled.<\/p>\n

Place urged the government to make a quick decision on the issue, adding it would be the “icing on the cake” of the rail announcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The announcement follows years of campaigning for better rail connections, as well as setbacks, with the city often…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-813981","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\/813981","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=813981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}