This is slightly disingenuous. You are omitting to mention the GC services from Bradford, Halifax, Brighouse or Mirfield which are closer to Huddersfield than Leeds. I don't think it's too hard to travel to Leeds for a London train. I've travelled from Batley to Manchester before to get cheaper fares on VTWC than VTEC were offering. Huddersfield needs better links to Sheffield and Wakefield as a priority over London IMO.
The above said, I'm still happy to see Huddersfield and Dewsbury will be getting a London service soon-ish and I'd like to see it extend to more than one train per day, but I'm not sure how VTEC's 80X fleet size will allow that.
Just try finding somewhere to park at or near Brighouse or Mirfield stations if you drive there from Huddersfield in an attempt to use GC - the Huddersfield Examiner has run umpteen stories about what a major problem parking is around Mirfield station. Money for a 200-space car park extension is supposed to be on the way but Leeds-bound commuters will probably fill those up in an instant.
If people are going to drive to a station from Huddersfield to get a train to London, most will go to Wakefield Westgate - 900 parking spaces and frequent London trains.
The fastest all-rail Huddersfield-London journeys are either via Wakefield or changing from GC at Mirfield but none of the timetables seems to be optimised with these links in mind and the attitude seems to be that there are so many Leeds services now that it's easiest to point people at those, or, as Yorkie say, changing at York...(the Northern pocket timetable doesn't even bother giving London connection times at Wakefield)
In the absence of lots of passengers connecting to and from London, I have my doubts that there would be much point adding more Huddersfield-Wakefield trains.
How exactly would you suggest improving links with Sheffield? No one is ever going to foot the bill for redoubling between Huddersfield and Barnsley, which is the only way that route could be speeded up with some semi-fasts on top of the stoppers and I have my doubts about whether you could afford both the existing level of service via Penistone plus adding a Huddersfield-Barnsley-Sheffield service via Horbury and Darton - though the latter would certainly cut the end-to-end journey time.
