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    Best and Worst Major Interchange Stations

    Advertised services involving a 16 minute walk in the rain between Bradford Interchange and Bradford Forster Square are not great. You also won't see a monitor at either station telling you about the services at the other one that your meant to connect with.
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    You can finally spend a penny at Shipley! (Old station building turned into toilets and waiting room)

    It's a relief to have the toilets at last (pun intended). But passengers are still waiting for some toilets at Forster Square, however work will hopefully start on the station improvements shortly. Shipley still needs more car parking though as it continues to attract passengers from across...
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    Bradford Council proposal for a new NPR station

    That layout looks to be an ideal solution. Keeping services operational during construction would be a big challenge.
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    One Or Multiple City Centre Stations In Provincial English Cities?

    That Bradford's 2 stations remain unconnected is a terrible legacy of modern planners not doing their jobs. Nobody in the north part of Bradford, or north-west of Bradford along the Aire Valley line to Keighley and Skipton, or north-west of Bradford along the Wharfdale line to Ilkley or to the...
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    Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) - Latest plans & speculation

    You are making the case as to why Bradford needs to be on the NPR route because it is a huge but underperforming city due to its dreadful rail links.
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    Bradford Council proposal for a new NPR station

    The avoiding line that started at Laisterdike and joined up with the Bradford - Halifax line just before Bowling tunnel was far too far away from the city centre. The current St James site is doable because most of the major city centre destinations can be reached by a maximum 15 minute walk so...
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    Bradford Council proposal for a new NPR station

    Well the latest plan is said to be a compromise, a little further out of the city centre than ideal, but will save a huge amount of money and so give a better chance of government approval. The council own the land in question. They also have an aspiration to expand the giant wholesale market...
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    Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) - Suggestions and speculation

    I think you have overlooked the fact that Bradford is one of the country's largest cities and that the main objective of NPR is to link the north's major cities.
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    'Leeds Bradford Airport Parkway' Consultation (2021)

    So the station will be of no use whatsoever to the airport's second biggest user, Bradford, and will require multi-modal changes by everybody else to get there. What a waste of money. Most of West Yorkshire will happily carry on heading to Manchester on the M62 or on the fast direct trains.
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    Ordsall Chord etc - what was the actual plan?

    There is inadequate connectivity between the major conurbations in the north because current TP services completely avoid the Bradford district and the Calder Valley and instead all run through Huddersfield. NPR is intended to address this but it is many years away and changes are needed much...
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    Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) - Suggestions and speculation

    I've no idea what the latest proposal is but previously the plan for a central Bradford station was to have it underground beneath Bradford Interchange with west-east tracks. The current tracks out of the Interchange head southwards to Halifax and Eastwards to Leeds
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    Resolving Historically Poorly-Served Locations - How Would You Fix It?

    Bradford is very much neglected by current services. For example it sees Trans Pennine Express trains bypassing the city via nearby Huddersfield yet there are very limited services to Huddersfield and currently no services to Liverpool and Newcastle. Whilst I believe there are plans for a...
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    Trivia: Most sparse platform at a major station

    Well there is the luxury of waiting on the subway ramp listening to the brass band! A bit of improvisation, like platforms 3 & 4 at Bradford Interchange where the canopy finishes at the buffers, but there is the option of walking to the end of the platform to stand under the overbridge and...
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    Stations to avoid and why

    Bradford Interchange. No bogs. 2 out of the 4 platforms have no canopy or waiting shelter. No screens showing advertised connections from Forster Square. Tiny areas at both sides of ticket barriers. No station public drop off pick up apart from taxis. The narrowest escalator in the world from...
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    Halifax redevelopment: could there be opportunities to improve or expand the station?

    I disagree about Bradford Interchange being a White Elephant. Most Bradford city centre buses use it and it is only 5 minutes walk to places like the Broadway Shopping Centre, Alhambra Theatre, National Science & Media Museum, St George's Hall etc and only about 8/10 minutes walk to Forster...
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    Trivia: Stations with surviving run-around loops?

    Unless things have changed I believe there is a loop on the bus station side but just a siding on the retaining wall side.
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    Doncaster Sheffield Airport Rail Link Proposal

    People are living in cloud cuckoo land if they think people from Leeds and Bradford will use the proposed link. LBA is centrally located just a few miles north of both cities so will always be the first choice.
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    Important stations with no toilets

    3 minutes? It takes at least 3 minutes to cross the main road pelican!
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    Why are people opposed to HS2? (And other HS2 discussion)

    You are totally correct! HS2's principal plan is to avoid going to places to pick up passengers!
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    Why are people opposed to HS2? (And other HS2 discussion)

    With climate change now being of such alarming concern the government policy should be to take away the need to travel, especially daily commutes to work. So the billions from HS2 should instead be invested so as to encourage jobs to move to the people rather than the other way around as...

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