Transpennine Route Upgrade and Electrification updates

[D6130]

Does anyone know if there's much else to do at Batley on the Up, Manchester bound side? I visited for the first time in a while today and there seems to be a lot of works materials etc there just for installing the overheads and finishing off the footbridge. I know there's no plans for the speculated on loop, but I wondered if there could be anything happening access-wise, which has never been good from the East for as long as I've known it despite an old access road to Grange Road, and is currently a bit worse off with a footpath directly to the station from Back Station Road blocked by the footbridge work?

I've noticed that the Jo Cox memorial garden has been removed from the Down platform and replaced by a couple of containers. Hopefully this is just a temporary measure and it will be reinstated at the end of the works.

 

[Ballyheigue]

Not sure if this has been mentioned in another thread, but the 144 Pacer where the men's shed used to be at Huddersfield Station appears to have been cut up on site.

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Not sure if this has been mentioned in another thread, but the 144 Pacer where the men's shed used to be at Huddersfield Station appears to have been cut up on site.

Yes I saw that in the very latest and detailed Sarah Bell YouTube video.

 

[superkev]

Latest TRU official video says big push this final weekend of the current 16day blockade with most attention being at Deighton where the stairs and footbridges are due to be lifted in.

Also note from one of latest Tim Youtube videos that a turnout has been positioned at the Hudds end of the recently laid fast lines. Access soon for a tamper from the existing perhaps?
K

 

[neil65]

all gone quiet on the video front from Tim & Sarah for some reason for the last days of the blockade

 

[1D53]

all gone quiet on the video front from Tim & Sarah for some reason for the last days of the blockade

Generally not much of excitement in the last few days of big blocks like this - contingency time, site tidy ups, wheels free signalling testing, track stressing etc. Doesn't make exciting viewing!

 

[Maniac]

Latest TRU official video says big push this final weekend of the current 16day blockade with most attention being at Deighton where the stairs and footbridges are due to be lifted in.

Also note from one of latest Tim Youtube videos that a turnout has been positioned at the Hudds end of the recently laid fast lines. Access soon for a tamper from the existing perhaps?
K

All of the track on the Huddersfield Viaduct will be completed in Dec26-Feb27 (final alignment), so theoretically a tamper may access the lines if under possession, the fast lines will then be laid but not "in-use" until the end of 2027 I believe. Mid 27 is the Thornhill closure for re-routing the lines via Baker Viaduct and then that winter is the completion of the 4-tracking IIRC, electrification following in 28.

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It seems that the north tunnels are being laid for single track again - and the track is in the centre of the bore. [The Huddersfield south tunnel contains two tracks: the self-contained Penistone line and the westbound Standedge]

Whilst I hadn't expected the north tunnels to be laid with two tracks (ie. early preparation for the next phase of works), I had thought the alignment would have been laid with room for another track to make three going west which is the grand plan up to Standedge. I started looking but couldn't find any useful plans on network rail or the TPU site about this.

The 3 tracking won't start until the western side of the Gledholt Bank road under-bridge, around the Cross Church access location.

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Re TPU signalling.
With all the recent pictures an videos of progress on the new fast lines and Huddersfield station it got me wondering about the signalling which these dosn't appear to be any sign.
Leeds Dewsbury was completed a while back. Is the existing line from Dewsbury to Hudds to remain as is with new on the fast lines or total replacement?

Also, surely the couple of existing signals preventing completion of the fast lines which stop either side will to be moved soon on to gantrys even if temporary .
K

Mid 27 the whole Bradley Junction -> Greetland/Thornhill areas are resignalled.

To answer your second point, that signal is moved back closer to Heaton Lodge before MVL3-105 Bradleys about 50m East. It won't be on a gantry.

 

[neil65]

Generally not much of excitement in the last few days of big blocks like this - contingency time, site tidy ups, wheels free signalling testing, track stressing etc. Doesn't make exciting viewing!

Footbridges were supposed to be installed at Deighton this weekend plus staircases lifted in so yes that’s a major job I believe

 

[staleydm01]

Love how there’s posters everywhere about the mid week and weekend closures but nothing mention why there’s further closures at huddersfield, a lot if football commuters like to travel by train and they say the few weeks of closing finished on Friday but will be running on weekends including 10th October which restricts a lot of travel for the town matches, adding 30 minutes each way doesn’t make travelling to Huddersfield very appealing

 

[Spartacus]

I've noticed that the Jo Cox memorial garden has been removed from the Down platform and replaced by a couple of containers. Hopefully this is just a temporary measure and it will be reinstated at the end of the works.

I heard they were going to put another shelter on the Leeds platform, actually where trains stop, so could be something to do with that?

 

[Jamesrob637]

Love how there’s posters everywhere about the mid week and weekend closures but nothing mention why there’s further closures at huddersfield, a lot if football commuters like to travel by train and they say the few weeks of closing finished on Friday but will be running on weekends including 10th October which restricts a lot of travel for the town matches, adding 30 minutes each way doesn’t make travelling to Huddersfield very appealing

Well, inevitably there'll be some short-term pain for long-term gain.