NORTHERN CHANGES ELSEWHERE
ANYONE reading through train operator Northern’s announcement of its May timetable changes could be forgiven for wondering what the fuss was about.
IN addition to changes to the Whitby and Brigg lines and the decision not to operate DalesRail this year, buses have replaced the direct peaktime services that ran between Huddersfield, Wakefield and Castleford, while trains from Ilkley and Skipton to Bradford Forster Square have been reduced from two to one per hour off-peak.
Its claim that the “overwhelming majority of services” would be unaltered with a “small number of changes to specific lines” is indeed correct. What is more difficult to grasp without additional context is that some of these changes are sufficient to mean the train is no longer an option for certain journeys.