Recent content by nimbus21

Advertised services involving a 16 minute walk in the rain between Bradford Interchange and Bradford Forster Square are not great. You also won't see a monitor at either station telling you about the services at the other one that your meant to connect with.

It's a relief to have the toilets at last (pun intended). But passengers are still waiting for some toilets at Forster Square, however work will hopefully start on the station improvements shortly. Shipley still needs more car parking though as it continues to attract passengers from across...

That layout looks to be an ideal solution. Keeping services operational during construction would be a big challenge.

That Bradford's 2 stations remain unconnected is a terrible legacy of modern planners not doing their jobs. Nobody in the north part of Bradford, or north-west of Bradford along the Aire Valley line to Keighley and Skipton, or north-west of Bradford along the Wharfdale line to Ilkley or to the...

You are making the case as to why Bradford needs to be on the NPR route because it is a huge but underperforming city due to its dreadful rail links.

The avoiding line that started at Laisterdike and joined up with the Bradford - Halifax line just before Bowling tunnel was far too far away from the city centre. The current St James site is doable because most of the major city centre destinations can be reached by a maximum 15 minute walk so...

Well the latest plan is said to be a compromise, a little further out of the city centre than ideal, but will save a huge amount of money and so give a better chance of government approval. The council own the land in question. They also have an aspiration to expand the giant wholesale market...

I think you have overlooked the fact that Bradford is one of the country's largest cities and that the main objective of NPR is to link the north's major cities.

So the station will be of no use whatsoever to the airport's second biggest user, Bradford, and will require multi-modal changes by everybody else to get there. What a waste of money. Most of West Yorkshire will happily carry on heading to Manchester on the M62 or on the fast direct trains.

There is inadequate connectivity between the major conurbations in the north because current TP services completely avoid the Bradford district and the Calder Valley and instead all run through Huddersfield. NPR is intended to address this but it is many years away and changes are needed much...

I've no idea what the latest proposal is but previously the plan for a central Bradford station was to have it underground beneath Bradford Interchange with west-east tracks. The current tracks out of the Interchange head southwards to Halifax and Eastwards to Leeds

Bradford is very much neglected by current services. For example it sees Trans Pennine Express trains bypassing the city via nearby Huddersfield yet there are very limited services to Huddersfield and currently no services to Liverpool and Newcastle. Whilst I believe there are plans for a...

Well there is the luxury of waiting on the subway ramp listening to the brass band! A bit of improvisation, like platforms 3 & 4 at Bradford Interchange where the canopy finishes at the buffers, but there is the option of walking to the end of the platform to stand under the overbridge and...

Bradford Interchange. No bogs. 2 out of the 4 platforms have no canopy or waiting shelter. No screens showing advertised connections from Forster Square. Tiny areas at both sides of ticket barriers. No station public drop off pick up apart from taxis. The narrowest escalator in the world from...

I disagree about Bradford Interchange being a White Elephant. Most Bradford city centre buses use it and it is only 5 minutes walk to places like the Broadway Shopping Centre, Alhambra Theatre, National Science & Media Museum, St George's Hall etc and only about 8/10 minutes walk to Forster...