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It wouldn't surprise me if one was introduced eventually via the Ordsall Chord. It all requires more infrastructure in Manchester and diverting the TPE airport services away from the Ordsall Chord and on to the Manchester to Liverpool railway. I think similarly to moving the Bradford station...

I only know what was being considered a few years ago but it was either 2 or 4 trains per hour between Manchester and Leeds via Bradford. This was when HS2 was happening so it included potential extensions to Birmingham and/or Liverpool and potentially Hull. That wasn't to say that it couldn't...

Bradford is certainly more deprived than the wider Stockport area and I agree the rail connectivity helps but a new station is about improving connectivity. I disagree that Stockport hasn't had its problems because I've experienced how dead the town centre was a decade ago and some of the...

Definitely but capacity enhancements or a new station in Bradford is needed to accommodate the additional services.

You don't know that. I don't know that. We simply don't have access to where people are coming from. 1) Improve Manchester and Leeds capacity 2) Have better accelerating battery units would reduce speed differential between fast and slow services. 3) I'd still look at building a line to...

I was more talking about the geographical relationship between the station and town centre which would be very similar to a proposed new Bradford site. Stockport isn't quite as deprived as Bradford but 10-15 years ago it was a pretty grim town centre. Its certainly reinveted itself because of...

I agree it'd be interesting to see if interchange could be made to work for an increase in services. My gut feeling is that once costs and benefits have been considered, a through station is going to come out better but I'm one man who's very aware there's a lot he doesn't have expertise in. I...

I can't remember where I read it now, but I did laugh at him being connected to the area because he delivered takeaways there while at university. Why try to play up a guys local links if they're so tenuous, it just looks silly. My wife said she might run because her car broke down on the M67...

Why all? If you're coming from the south/east then clearly its a shorter distance/journey time. I've said before that if the station waits until there is capacity, there's a real chance that Interchange will just be left to rot because there's little point spending money on a station that has...

I completely agree that at the moment the infrastructure is not there but it will obviously be included as part of the station. It may even get private funding from the proposed development. I don't think it requires the closure the A650. The height differences makes a bridge or pedestrian...

Fares have very little to do with infrastructure business cases. St James Market isn't 1km away from most of Bradford City Centre. Straight-line distances from the centre of St James Market: Entrance of Interchange - 477m Centre of the Broadway - 746m Entrance of Forster Square - 1080m...

TPE already has a tender out for 195m trains which are as long as the infrastructure will realistically accommodate. So they are being lengthened first. The Bradford services can be cheaper to encourage use. People choose to use northern via Bradford to get to Leeds over TPE due to price. I've...

No because all Halifax travellers receive the benefits. Only Bradford travellers walking to the city centre will be disadvantaged. The business case will provide more information on which passenger number is greater. They likely will be lengthened first. I hate the argument we can't start...

Interchange is the top 10 Of course in 7 years time modern rollingstock with better acceleration will be providing all services which will reduce the speed differential between fast and stopping services on Calder Valley line. Manchester is probably going to be the main constraint on capacity...

I agree with this position. Its crazy to think we've reached peak electrification on the network. There's plenty of lines that either have very heavy usage (e.g. Dore-Sheffield-Swinton), high speeds (e.g. Birmingham to Derby) or heavy freight use and aren't electrified. The Calder Valley is...

Then Bradford has a more reliable station with better passenger facilities albeit potentially increase in journey time of a couple of minutes from some areas of the city centre. There being very little investment in infrastructure in the north is nailed on? A region of 16 million people in one...

So leave interchange (with perhaps a few small upgrades) exactly as it is until new capacity is needed because of new lines in 2040? There's no point in spending a couple of hundred million on a station that won't facilitate your plans in 15 years time. It doesn't matter if its an new line via...

I imagine the council see it as a way of getting serious investment into passenger facilities while improving capacity for future additonal services. A new station is also a pretty good advertisement for development in an area that small investment in existing facilities will never match. High...

Halifax is a fairly large town with pretty awful journey times to Leeds. West Lancashire and Blackburn are fairly large urban areas too. I think its possible that knocking 6 or 7 minutes off those journeys and improving reliavbility could make a positive business case. I also think its quite...

The longer electric trains on slightly realigned routes are being delivered by the Transpennine Upgrade and the early stages of NPR. Later stages are about improving capacity for the long term. I don't think inconceivable that capacity could be an issue in 2040 and it'd be no longer possible to...