The £70 million revamp of Huddersfield Railway Station is on track to be completed in early 2027.

Work on an internal modernisation of the 170-year-old station started in November 2023 and is now well underway.

By 2027 the station will have a new roof, two new platforms, longer platforms, a new footbridge, improved accessibility and better signage and passenger information.

A scaffolding platform has been built inside the station to allow the restoration of the Grade I-listed ‘Euston’ trainshed roof.

The tiles have been removed and the steelwork skeleton is exposed. It’s been grit-blasted and will be repainted before the roof is re-tiled.

The Grade II-listed timber-panelled tearooms building, dating back to 1886, has been removed in 8,000 pieces and will be restored ahead of a painstaking rebuild. It will be back in the same place but turned 180 degrees.

As well as the two new platforms, the existing platforms will be longer to accommodate bigger trains with more passengers. There will also be new waiting rooms and toilets.

 

 

The TransPennine Route Upgrade invited journalists to look around the station and see the works taking place.

During the visit it was confirmed there will be two more 30-day ‘blockades’ – or full closures of the station.

The first will take place in August and September 2025 and will see extensive demolition for the building of the two new platforms. All the tracks just outside Huddersfield will be lifted at the same time.

The second blockade in January 2027 will see the completion of the station to make it operational.

At the media visit it was also confirmed that plans for the creation of a temporary station at Hillhouse had been scrapped.

The original plan was to have a temporary platform at Hillhouse for use during the 2025 closure with passengers bused between the station and the Hillhouse depot.

That, however, will no longer happen and instead Huddersfield passengers will go to Brighouse Railway Station, which will undergo a revamp.

TRU sponsor Paul Sumner said as work had progressed – and Huddersfield diversions successfully went onto the Calder Valley Line – it became clear there was a better way than building a temporary platform at Hillhouse.

Instead of spending the money on a temporary platform that would be taken up afterwards, it was decided to invest in Brighouse, extending the width of a platform and improving car parking and other facilities.

The Hillhouse depot, which is being used for TRU works, will eventually become a light maintenance depot for train operator Northern, with the capacity to hold 24 carriages.

 

 

As part of the wider scheme, Deighton and Mirfield stations are being re-modelled and Ravensthorpe will have a brand new station slightly nearer to Mirfield, which could open in 2028.

At the other side of Huddersfield, plans for new stations at Slaithwaite and Marsden remain some way off and it could be the end of the decade before works start.

Development work is underway and public consultation will be launched within the next year with a view to submitting a Works Order to the Secretary of State in 2026. A business case would have to be submitted and funding secured from the Government.

The TransPennine Route Upgrade is about rail electrification and modernisation and runs 70 miles from Manchester to York.

It is the country’s biggest civil engineering project worth a total of £11.5 billion and won’t be fully completed until the mid-2030s or beyond.

Mr Sumner confirmed the Huddersfield scheme was on schedule and on budget.

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