YorkshireBear
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If they only stop at Leeds, they wouldn't be semi-fasts though- they'd be fasts!
I agree that Hull appears to lose out (along with Cottingley; Morley; Batley; Mirfield; Slaithwaite; Marsden; Greenfield and Mossley, of course) unfairly as a result of the semi-fast plans for North TPE.
Of course this thread is looking further into the future and beyond the current franchise. Supposedly if and when wires go up, proper local services may return- in which case my assumption is that the Hull to Manchester service will return to the current arrangements of calling only at Dewsbury and Huddersfield within the core. The Leeds to Manchester semi-fast either does the same or is withdrawn completely. True local services between Huddersfield and both Leeds and Manchester are reintroduced operated by EMUs, possibly joined either side of Huddersfield if this reduces the number of diagrams needed.
I suppose we will find out too when the Transpennine Rail Upgrade (TRU) and Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) funding and scopes become clear. Without more loops (and functional loops) the stoppers are unlikely to ever return I don't think.
I think we are close to understanding what TRU will look like, Network Rail have presented their work to the DfT today according to internal news. NPR might be a good while longer before we fully understand what gets built, if anything does at all.