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Westbound coal train between Ravensthorpe and Mirfield in 1953. At the time of the 1923 Grouping, most of the route followed by the line was over London and North Western Railway (LNWR) metals; the exception was a short stretch around Mirfield, which was the property of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR). [4]
Map of the Trans-Pennine Routes. The TRU relates to the Huddersfield line, shown in light blue. Calder Valley line for comparison. The Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) is a major investment being made in the railway between York and Manchester via Leeds and Huddersfield in the north of England.
It came to a stop in the tunnel and was run into from behind by the 9.05 pm goods train from Low Moor to Laisterdyke. Wreckage partly blocking the up line was then hit by the 9:00 pm passenger train from Leeds to Manchester. Nobody was killed but there was extensive damage to rolling stock. [2]
Schemes to improve the Leeds–Manchester line speed by 2014 were included in Network Rail's CP5 improvements, with an aim to reduce Manchester–Leeds journey times by 15 minutes. [22] In 2011, the approximately £290 million electrification of the trans-Pennine Manchester–Leeds line was given funding.
The Manchester and Leeds Railway Act 1836 (6 & 7 Will. 4.c. cxi) was given royal assent on 4 July 1836. Authorised share capital was £1,300,000. The Manchester and Leeds Railway Act 1837 (7 Will. 4 & 1 Vict. c. xxiv) on 5 May 1837 authorised changes to the route.
The route was to continue from the airport into Manchester city centre via a 7.5-mile (12.1 km) bored tunnel under the dense urban districts of south Manchester before surfacing at Ardwick. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] [ 16 ] The tunnel was to be the longest rail tunnel to be built in the United Kingdom, surpassing the 6.2-mile (10.0 km) High Speed 1 tunnel ...
In 1868, the term was used to describe the Midland Railway main route from North to South through Sheffield [49] and also on routes to Manchester, Leeds and Carlisle. Under British Rail the term was used to define the route between St Pancras and Sheffield, but since then, Network Rail has restricted it in its description of Route 19 [50] to ...
The Hope Valley line is a trans-Pennine railway line in Northern England, linking Manchester with Sheffield.It was completed in 1894. Passenger services on the line are operated by Northern Trains, East Midlands Railway and TransPennine Express, while the quarries around Hope, producing stone and cement, provide a source of freight traffic.