If you want to go to Leeds, don't start out from Baildon!
One of very few West Yorkshire stations without a direct train to Leeds.
Well you see when you live in Baildon, especially if like me you live about 4 minutes walk away, you tend to want to start from Baildon. I know it might seem weird and all...
But even with the reductions, still a very reasonable service, apart from off-peak towards Leeds where the journey time is poor.
Not when we've had half hourly services for many, many years. With bus services having been cut back, and those that remain notoriously unreliable due to the worsening traffic, the train should be a viable alternative. But instead it is being cut back. And don't forget it isn't just Baildon passengers affected, it is every passenger along both routes out of Bradford that are. Bradford has no direct bus services beyond Guiseley (and even that is only hourly) along the Wharfe route, and only one beyond Bingley on the Aire (which itself is being decimated due to Transdev operational issues as discussed on the buses forum). As I've said elsewhere, this area is one of the most congested, and most effected by traffic pollution in the region. Cutting services back to save a bit of cash instead of trying to attract more use is just pure laziness, and should act as a warning to other areas where the TOCs are government owned.
And let's face it, we all know what will happen if delays start to build up on the triangle services. The hourly Bradford-Ilkley will be the first to be cancelled to get units onto other diagrams. Its a nailed on bet.
BTW an additional BUS service from Frizinghall to Ilkley has appeared, stopping to set down only, to cover a specific school traffic flow.
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:C02572/2022-05-18
The journey time isn't too bad either.
That journey time is aspirational at best, realistically battling through traffic especially in Shipley & Guiseley its not going to happen. Its clearly an afterthought when the planners forgot that the schoolkids travelling to the two schools at Frizinghall in the morning also have to get home in the afternoon. It just shows what a joke this all is.