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
  • Weekdays from Monday 3 March until Friday 21 March 2025 - upgrade work in the Huddersfield and Dewsbury areas means trains will be diverted or replaced by buses:
    • Trains between Leeds and Wigan will divert via Bradford Interchange, and will not call at Brighouse, Mirfield, Dewsbury, Batley or Morley
    • Buses will replace local stopping trains between Huddersfield and Leeds
    • Buses will run between Leeds and Halifax via Dewsbury, calling at Morley, Batley, Dewsbury, Mirfield and Brighouse
  • Saturday and Sunday 8/9 March, and 15/16 March - buses will replace trains between Leeds and York/Selby, calling at all local stations
  • Saturday and Sunday 22/23 March - buses will replace trains between:
    • Leeds and York/Selby, calling at all local stations
    • York and Moorthorpe, for onward train connections to Sheffield
    • York and Selby, for onward train connections to Hull
  • CrossCountry and TransPennine Express trains will also be affected on 22 and 23 March, with buses replacing trains between York and Leeds.

  • Find out more about TRU here

     

• Bolton - Wigan - Electrification works - Information here
• Broad Green - Station improvement - Information here
• Daisy Hill & Irlam - Station improvement - Information here

• Salford Station closure - Station improvement - Information here

   

   

Future works and improvements 

• East Coast Main Line (Dec 2025) - Timetable change - Information here