Engineering, improvements and disruptions

Engineering works, major disruptions and planned improvement work

Engineering works to maintain and improve the rail network usually take place overnight and at weekends. When these works happen, alternative transport such as rail replacement buses will be provided in place of trains. Journey times are likely to be extended and services may start later and finish earlier than the usual timetable.

From time to time, major engineering works can disrupt services for longer. For those biggerworks, we'll provide details on this page before the expected disruption.

Details of what engineering works are taking place across our network over the next 12 weeks can be found on the National Rail website.

Online journey planners, such as National Rail or our App, are the best places to check whether trains have changed due to engineering works or amended timetables.

Upcoming engineering work Plan your journey Current service updates

Current major engineering, disruption and station works:

Transpennine Route Upgrade
- Weekends from 11/12 January until Saturday 8 February 2025 - upgrade work in the Huddersfield and Dewsbury areas means trains will be diverted or replaced by buses:
  - Buses will replace trains between Huddersfield and Lockwood for train connections to Sheffield
  - Trains between Huddersfield and Bradford Interchange will be replaced by buses between Huddersfield, Brighouse and Halifax
  - Trains between Leeds and Huddersfield will be diverted and will run between Leeds and Bradford Interchange via Brighouse, where replacement buses will connect for Huddersfield
- Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 February - between Leeds and York, buses will replace stopping trains between Micklefield and York on Sat 1 Feb and Sun 2 Feb
- Sunday 9 Feb and Sunday 16 February - buses will replace trains between Leeds and York/Selby, calling at all local stations
- Find out more about TRU here
Bolton - Wigan - Electrification works - Information here
Broad Green 2024 - Station improvement - Information here
Daisy Hill & Irlam - Station improvement - Information here
Manchester Piccadilly - Station improvement - Information here
Hull-Bridlington/Scarborough - engineering- Information here