Railways: Yorkshire and the Humber

(asked on 12th June 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to improve rail links between Huddersfield and Sheffield.


Answered by
Andrew Jones Portrait
Andrew Jones
This question was answered on 17th June 2015

The Department for Transport ran a public consultation to help inform the specification for the new Northern and TransPennine Express franchises, and received over 21,000 responses; a summary of these have been published on the Government’s website.

The Invitation To Tender for the Northern franchise has specified the replacement of Pacers (which are currently used) on services between Huddersfield and Sheffield) by the start of 2020, and other rolling stock used on the franchise will be subject to a substantial refurbishment. It also specifies an increase in the Sunday service provision on this route by December 2017. Our process for evaluating franchise bids encourages bidders to exceed the minimum specifications we state, and the bids themselves are due in to the Department by 26 June. We are due to announce the outcome towards the end of the year.

This quesiton was inadvertently grouped with question 2332.


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