The Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) is set to make train journeys faster, more frequent, and greener between Manchester, Huddersfield, Leeds and York, on a more reliable and cleaner railway. 🚆
With 70 miles of track being electrified, it’s estimated that TRU will reduce the
👀 The overhead electric wire stanchions are all lined up and the future of cleaner, greener train journeys is in sight at Stalybridge.
🌳 By the middle of the decade, electric wires will power cleaner, greener and faster trains between Stalybridge and Manchester.
Team TRU on the Hope Valley Railway Upgrade helping residents in Sheffield impacted by
#StormBabet
. While working to create a new accessible platform at Dore & Totley station, engineers could see rising water threatening local businesses. They’ve been lifting ballast (railway
Signage and displays starting to be installed at
#Morley
in our latest phase of upgrades 🚉
In the next phase we’ll be installing lifts to make it accessible for the first time 🛗
We’re building new, longer platforms to enable longer trains with more seats🚆💺
🚦With most of the new track now in place at Stalybridge we’re making progress installing new signals & overhead line equipment
🏗️First job was to remove this signal gantry to allow new signals to be positioned and create room for electric wires to be installed above the tracks
...and that's a wrap! ✅
After nine days of major upgrades,
#Morley
station has reopened.
We just want to say a HUGE thank you to customers and local residents for bearing with us over this period 🙏
🎉 We can't wait to officially mark the opening of the station, which will be
🌧️Sunday’s torrential rain didn’t stop our track team completing their final section of renewed track between Colton & Church Fenton
🛤️They battled the elements to replace ballast, sleepers & rails to give a smoother journey and enable faster, more frequent trains in the future
🦃 While the turkey was in yesterday, our team were installing overhead electrical wires just outside of
#York
.
These upgrades will allow electric trains to run through the area in the future, bring us one step closer to greener, faster and more reliable services 🍃💨
We’re doing our final checks before reopening the line through
#Morley
overnight🚆
We’ve completed track 🛤️ & drainage upgrades & made great progress on the new platforms as part of the new Morley station 🚉ready for:
🛗Full accessibility
⏱️Faster & more frequent trains
Over the last nine days, engineers have worked around the clock in
#Morley
to take us one step closer to a fully accessible station.
So far, engineers have ⬇️
🧰 Constructed new platforms and demolished the old ones.
🏗️ Removed the old footbridge and installed a new one.
🚦
👷🏻♀️ Our teams are working on the
#TranspennineRouteUpgrade
this Christmas👷🏾♂️
🔧 This includes improvements to the tracks, as well as signalling and overhead line equipment
✅ Helping us to deliver a cleaner, greener, fully-electrified railway between York, Leeds & Manchester
👷We’re at Batley installing a crossover to enable trains to cross from one track to the other
🏗We’re using these cool remote-controlled telescopic handling gantries called PEMs, and motorised transport trolleys called LEMs, to move the track to the site and lower it into place
🤩The new platforms at Morley Station are really taking shape!
🚉This is all part of our major
#TranspennineRouteUpgrade
improvement works to transform rail travel for the town and across the North
⚠️Work takes place until 25 June so check before you travel at
@nationalrailenq
Our TRU engineers have completed the installation of electrification equipment near
#ManchesterVictoria
this Christmas as part of our plans to bring passengers cleaner, greener trains between Manchester, Huddersfield, Leeds and York 🚆 ⚡️✅
#ChristmasEngineeringWork
⚡️The
#TranspennineRouteUpgrade
is electrifying the railway between York & Manchester, with components made in our facility in Yorkshire
💚This will bring greener trains & better air quality to passengers & communities along this line
➡️
#TRU
#WeMeanGreen
Day 23/26 we’re getting the station ready & completing the installation of new track & overhead line equipment, taking
#Stalybridge
one step closer to faster, more frequent, greener trains ⏱️🚆🔋✅
➡️Until 6 April trains are diverted or replaced by buses, pls check
@nationalrail
Goodbye old platform two 👋
We’ve built new, longer platforms to enable longer trains with more seats at
#Morley
station 🚆💺
Our major upgrades continue until the end of the week 📲 please check
@nationalrailenq
before you travel
In the next phase we’ll be installing the
We’re approaching the final days of major upgrade works at
#Stalybridge
👷Engineers have been working around the clock to deliver the biggest piece of work on
#TRU
so far! 🚆
📲Please check before you travel via
@nationarailenq
#OnTrackToBetter
#TRU
🛠️ The TRU team are continuing to work hard during the 10 day upgrades around Huddersfield. Excavation work has been completed for track renewals at Mirfield, while work is progressing on Huddersfield viaduct with part of the structure removed, ready for the deck replacement
#TRU
🚦Here’s the first of 29 brand new LED signals we’re installing between Manchester & Stalybridge over 4 days, along with 4km of new track
👷Over 450 engineers will help deliver this vital part of the
#TranspennineRouteUpgrade
to bring faster, more frequent, more reliable trains
It’s day 2️⃣ & work continues in
#Mirfield
as our team lay new track and beams 🏗️🧰
Mirfield station is just one of many on the Transpennine Route, being upgraded as part of our multi-billion-pound programme of work ✅
From the site team & all of us at TRU, Happy New Year 🎉
Some more pictures from yesterday’s electrification work in Neville Hill, Leeds 🔋🚆 with our teams checking overhead wires are all in place
This work is crucial to run greener, electric trains in future, as part of our major upgrades between
#Manchester
and
#York
As we creep into day 8️⃣ at
#Stalybridge
, our engineers are laying new track 🛤️
This work is a key milestone, enabling electric trains to run by the middle of the decade 🚆⚡️
Passengers are being reminded to check before they travel via
@nationalrailenq
📲
#OnTrackToBetter
#TRU
🚄 The multi-billion-pound Transpennine Route Upgrade will transform journeys between Manchester and York, bringing the line into the 21st century with 70 miles of fully electric, digital railway.
🧵 Let's take a look at five key projects we're delivering as part of
#TRU
...
✅ With the 26 days of major upgrades at
#Stalybridge
done and dusted, let's take a look back at what we have achieved...
🛤️ Over 2km of track renewed and 158 track panels installed
🔀 13 switches and crossings upgraded
🚦 25 signals installed
👷We’re making great progress at Morley Station, removing the old platforms & footbridge
🚄The new track alignment will enable trains not calling at Morley to travel faster
⚠️Trains are diverted or replaced by buses until 25 June so check before you travel at
@nationalrailenq
🏗️Day 2 of our major upgrade at Stalybridge and we’re making great progress removing the old track
✅The redesigned track & junction layout will enable trains to run faster & more reliably
➡️Trains are diverted or replaced until 6 Apr so check
@nationalrailenq
before you travel
We’re well into day one of our intense activities lasting ten days from Huddersfield station to Mirfield. During this period tracks between Huddersfield and Deighton will be replaced plus repair and renewal works to the Huddersfield viaduct 🌉- AKA Span 29 (Northgate, Bradford
Meet Steve, Andy and Simon who are part of the team upgrading
#Morley
station 👷🏽
Once complete this brings us closer to faster, cleaner, greener travel and a better, fully accessible station ⏱️🔋🚆🚉
📲 Diverted trains & some buses until 25 June. Please check
@nationalrailenq
⚡️The
#TranspennineRouteUpgrade
has reached a major milestone by completing the first section of electric overhead wires to be installed on the route!
✅ It’s the first step towards a cleaner, greener, fully-electrified railway between York, Leeds & Manchester.
#OnTrackToBetter
We’re starting 2024 with a bang 🎉🧰
Today, engineers have been completing major upgrades at
#Mirfield
station 👷🏻♂️👷🏽
This work is a vital part of the multi-billion-pound scheme, taking us one step closer to greener, faster and more reliable trains across the North 🍃💨
This
#Easter
🐣 we’ve been working in Neville Hill, Leeds installing overhead line equipment to get us another step closer to greener trains between Manchester & York 🔋🚆
We’ve diverted trains through Castleford and provided buses to keep passengers moving today 🔀🚎
Find out
🆕It’s out with the old and in with the new as we take the railway back down to ground level through the Cottingley area this week before installing brand new ballast stones, sleepers & rails to give smoother journeys.
🚦The unusual signal on the left is called a banner repeater
👷Our teams have battled the heat to successfully install our replacement bridge near Huddersfield
⚡️This
#TranspennineRouteUpgrade
work will allow the line to be electrified bringing cleaner, quieter electric trains
🛤There’s room for 2 more tracks enabling extra trains to run
As the end of 2023 fast approaches, our engineers are still working around the clock at
#Mirfield
👷🏽👷🏻♂️
Over the weekend:
🚆650m of new track will be installed
🏗️New bridge beams will be craned in
🔨 Platform 2 will be removed
@northernassist
@TPExpressTrains
Day 9️⃣:As we complete this first major phase of upgrades at
#Morley
station here’s a few of our favourite pics 📸
This takes us another step closer to:
🦼Fully accessible station
⏰More frequent trains
⏱️Faster journeys
Thank you for using alternative trains/buses this week 🙏🏼
🚦As well as installing new tracks & overhead electric lines through Stalybridge, we’re also starting to transfer control of the signalling system to our Manchester Rail Operating Centre
➡️Trains are diverted or replaced until 6 Apr so check
@nationalrailenq
before you travel
Step 1️⃣: Remove old rails
Step 2️⃣: Take out sleepers
Step 3️⃣: Install new ballast, sleepers & rails
👷🏽👷🏻♂️Our team continue to work around the clock completing major upgrades, so please check
@nationalrailenq
if travelling 🧳
We’re really grateful for your support 🙏
⚡️ Electric trains between Manchester Victoria and Stalybridge are a go! 🚆
Here’s a sneaky peak of the first one leaving Stalybridge on Monday morning 👀
A huge thanks to our customers for their support during the upgrade work 🙏
@northernassist
@TPExpressTrains
🛠️ Works continue between Huddersfield and Leeds as the
#TRU
team bring vital upgrades to the area.
🚨 This series of upgrades means weekday train services will be impacted between the two stations for the next 4 weeks.
ℹ️ We advise all passengers to check before they travel
Out with the old, in with the new ✅
Over Christmas & New Year, our team are working hard to upgrade the Transpennine Route 👷🏽👷🏻♂️
This is part of a multi-billion-pound programme of work, taking us one step closer to faster, greener and more reliable electric trains 🚆
Over the last 🔟 days, engineers have worked around the clock:
🚆 Installing new tracks
🏗️ Replacing a bridge deck
🕳️ Completing mining mitigations
⬇️ Re-grading embankments
We want to thank everyone for their support while these key upgrades have taken place 🙏
#TRU
🎉Thanks to all who joined Angie and her team to celebrate Huddersfield’s 175th birthday, including Friends of Huddersfield Station and the
@PenistoneLine
Partnership.
🐈⬛Great to see Bolt (and
@FelixhuddsCat
, eventually) getting on track with the
#TranspennineRouteUpgrade
too!
🏗️ It's day 1⃣4⃣ of major upgrades at
#Stalybridge
and we're continuing to make great progress which includes a full junction remodelling, as well as signalling upgrades and electrification works.
📲 Please continue to check before travelling via
@nationalrailenq
until 6 April.
It's day two of our ten day major upgrade work between Huddersfield station to Mirfield. Our renewal of the Huddersfield Viaduct (or Span 29 Northgate, Bradford Road to it's friends) continues apace. And don't forget that during this time the team is also replacing the track
🌟We're thrilled to announce Leeds station's capacity improvement work, which is part of Transpennine Route Upgrade, has achieved an 'excellent' BREEAM rating!
🏆 The recognition highlights sustainable achievements, including the construction of Platform 0 & reconstruction of
👷This weekend we’re excavating earth and preparing the ground between Huddersfield and Deighton, ready for the installation of two extra tracks.
🚄This will double the capacity and enable more frequent, faster trains.
➡️Check before you travel this weekend at
@nationalrailenq
🌇 From day to dusk, the major upgrades at
#Morley
continue 🛠️
With 2️⃣ days left to go, engineers are busy renewing tracks & installing the new platform 🧰
📲 Please continue to check
@nationalrailenq
as diversions and buses are in place 🔀
@northernassist
@TPExpressTrains
⚡️The
#TranspennineRouteUpgrade
is electrifying the railway between York & Manchester, with components made in our facility in Yorkshire
💚This will bring greener trains & better air quality to passengers & communities along this line
➡️
#TRU
#WeMeanGreen
ℹ️ Further developments on the Hope Valley Railway Upgrade are in place, as we undertake essential improvements to the line between Manchester and Sheffield.
🙌 Recent line closures have seen major work completed, with key milestones hit by the project team.
🚉As part of our major upgrade work at Stalybridge, we're making improvements to the station too
👷We're renewing the platform edges ready for trains to start calling again on 6 April
➡️Until then trains are diverted or replaced by buses so check
@nationalrail
before travelling
As we reach day four, engineers are completing work at
#Deighton
station 🚉
The work involves them cutting back and re-grading the embankment, allowing platform extensions, a new footbridge with lifts and a drop off area to be constructed in the future 🚆✅
📲 Services changes
🌜Our teams continue to work around the clock to deliver our major
#TranspennineRouteUpgrade
improvements at Stalybridge
➡️Train services are being diverted or replaced by buses until 6 Apr to enable us to carry out this work so please check before you travel at
@nationalrailenq
🌄 This morning, engineers watched as the first train passed through
#Stalybridge
after 26-days of major upgrades🚆
We want to thank passengers for their patience & understanding while the work has taken place 🙏
Here's what we've been up to 🔽
🛠️ Our engineers in
#Stalybridge
have been busy today, installing new track & switches and crossings 🛤️
🚆 These allow trains to move between different lines 🔀
Buses and diversions are keeping people moving so please check
@nationalrailenq
📲
#OnTrackToBetter
🛠️ Lots of progress made at
#Stalybridge
today as we continue our 26 days of major upgrades.
🚆 Some trains will be diverted and others will be replaced by buses. Please check before you travel via
@nationalrailenq
📸 Take a look at some of these aerial shots of the work!
Today, our engineers 👷🏻♀️👷🏾♂️ are quite literally laying the foundations for the new Morley station 🧰
🚉 These platforms will allow longer trains with more seats 💺 to stop at the station.
Diversions & buses are in place so please check
@nationalrailenq
📲
#OnTrackToBetter
👷Our engineers have been working around the clock carrying out major upgrade works at Morley station.
🚆🌱Once complete this brings us closer to faster, cleaner, greener travel.
📲 Diversionary routes & buses are in place until 25 June. Please check
@nationalrailenq
Day 3️⃣ of
#Morley
upgrades are off to a great start as engineers renew drainage & complete work at Lady Anne level crossing 🛠️
📲 Diversionary routes & buses are in place between Huddersfield & Leeds, so please check
@nationalrailenq
ℹ️
@northernassist
@TPExpressTrains
#TRU
🌉 The construction of our brand new bridge for Batley is beginning to take shape.
🛤️ This bespoke, fully accessible bridge will replace the Lady Anne level crossing, bringing us closer to major improvements between Dewsbury and Leeds, such as faster and more reliable trains.
🚧 Works continue in between Huddersfield and Leeds as we deliver a series of upgrades across the next 4 weeks.
🦺 The
#TRU
team have been working around the clock in the Cottingley area, as work on the ballast (railway stone) is carried out.
ℹ️ Weekday train services will be
Tasks complete for our
#TRU
teams working these last 76 hours into New Year 2024 at
#Mirfield
station in West Yorkshire.🙌
🛠️Reposition over 650m of track on a new alignment.✅
🔨To make room, demolish part of platform 2, which will come out of use.✅
🌉Works to remove two bridge
🧐You can’t park that there mate…
👀Not often you see a digger in Huddersfield Station, but this one’s helping us with mining mitigation work this weekend
👷We’re probing,treating & infilling voids within old coal seams deep underground ahead of upcoming major station upgrades
It’s day 5️⃣ and engineers are still working around the clock to complete upgrades across
#Huddersfield
🛠️
The work to Span 29 on Huddersfield Viaduct is now complete after the bridge deck was removed and replaced. New railway stone & track was then added 🏗️
📲 Please continue
🌃 As we reach the end of day 8️⃣ at
#Morley
, our engineers are still working hard, building new platforms to accommodate longer trains 🚆 ↔️
🧳 Passengers are being reminded to check
@nationalrailenq
as diversions and buses are in place 📲
@northernassist
@TPExpressTrains
❄️ The snow might have gone but our engineers certainly haven’t 👷🏻♀️👷🏾♂️
Day 3️⃣ is in full swing at
#Stalybridge
as we continue our 26-days of major upgrades 🛠️
📲 Passengers are being reminded to check before they travel via
@nationalrailenq
ℹ️
@northernassist
@TPExpressTrains
2⃣ days to go until we complete 26 days of major upgrades at
#Stalybridge
, bringing us one step closer to faster, greener and more reliable journeys.
📲 Please continue to check before you travel via
@nationalrailenq
until Thursday 6 April.
#OnTrackToBetter
This weekend, we reached the half-way point of our major upgrades at Stalybridge ✅
🛠️ Engineers have so far remodelled a junction, installed 2km of track & set foundations for the overhead lines ⚡️
Here's a quick recap of the work so far ⬇️
@TPExpressTrains
@northernassist
Over the New year, engineers renewed tracks & drainage at Morley Station🧰
Once complete, the station will be able to accommodate longer trains & will be fully accessible for everybody🚄
Further work will take place from 4-12 February so please check before you travel📱
#TRU
👷Our teams are doing a great job replacing the tracks at Stalybridge
🚧As the soil is soft, they first put down a black honeycomb mesh which stabilises the soil & helps to keep the fresh ballast stones (which are being unloaded here) in place before the new track is laid on top
It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Felix, Huddersfield Stations 'Senior Pest Controller'.
After many years of being ‘on guard’ at Huddersfield. Felix passed away peacefully on 3 December 2023.
Sleep peacefully Felix🐾❤️
👷 Over the last two weekends, 150
#TranspennineRouteUpgrade
engineers worked around the clock to replace this bridge near Huddersfield.
⚡️ It’s given us room to install overhead wires, enabling cleaner, quieter electric trains to run in the future.
➡️
Today,
@HuwMerriman
has announced that we’re investing around £100m in a new railway depot located in
#Shipley
🚆
This will be used to house & maintain
@northernassist
fleet of electric trains in the future, while TRU complete upgrades🧰
Find out more ➡️
🏗️ We’re into our third week of rail upgrades between Huddersfield and Leeds, where our team are working hard to undertake track and signalling improvements as part of
#TRU
.
🛤 Over the past two weeks, we have renewed 783m of track, completed 331m of track drainage, recovered
🎉Yesterday we celebrated a key milestone for the
#TranspennineRouteUpgrade
and for Castleford, as we launched a brand new rail service linking the town with York & Manchester and officially opened the station’s new fully-accessible second platform.
➡️
Over Christmas & New Year, our team are working around the clock to complete upgrades at key locations 👷🏽👷🏻♂️
🧰 Here’s just some of the work taking place at
#Huddersfield
.
If your travelling this week, please plan your journey and check
@nationalrailenq
📲
🛤️ It's day 🔟 of major upgrades at
#Stalybridge
which includes a full junction remodelling, installing over 2km of new track and 23 new signals, upgrading 13 crossovers and fitting new overhead line equipment.
📲 Please continue to check before travelling via
@nationalrailenq
📹 see our progress from the last five days, from our latest phase of upgrades at
#Morley
station
We’re relocating the station with new, longer platforms, better facilities and we’ll be installing lifts later this year 🚉
Find out more
Pls check before
🚦Over the Jubilee Bank Holiday we’re carrying out major work to switch control of signals between Manchester & Stalybridge from the 132-yr-old Baguley Fold signal box to the state-of-the-art Rail Operating Centre
✅This will enable faster,more reliable services to/from the city
After 9️⃣ days of major upgrades, engineers have re-opened the railway line through
#Morley
✅
We want to thank passengers for their patience & understanding while the work took place 🙏
Here’s a quick look at what’s been completed ⤵️
#TRU
@northernassist
@TPExpressTrains
☀️ The sun has gone but our engineers haven’t 👷🏾♂️👷🏻♀️
As we approach the last few days of our upgrades at
#Stalybridge
, our teams are connecting & testing the equipment that has been installed 🔌
📲 Please continue to check
@nationalrailenq
as diversions and buses are in place 🔁
Our with the old, in with the new ✨
👷🏼♀️👷🏽♂️ Engineers are installing new tracks around
#Huddersfield
and completing mining mitigation work in
#Ravensthorpe
🛠️
🔁 Some trains are being diverted while others are replaced by buses, so please check
@nationalrailenq
if travelling 🚌
This weekend, engineers have been working around the clock in
#Huddersfield
to install new bridge decks 🏗️
🚆 These upgrades take us one step closer to faster, greener and more reliable trains across the Transpennine Route ✅
Work is continuing throughout next week so please
🌅 As the sun set on
#Morley
&
#Batley
yesterday, engineers continued to install new track, sleeper & railway stone 🛤️
This is all part of our 9-days of major upgrades 🧰
📲 Passengers are being reminded to visit
@nationalrailenq
as diversions & bus replacements are in place 🔀
This weekend, engineers have been working hard to install a footbridge in
#Batley
🌁
The bridge was delivered in a number of sections by road, before being put together on site 🏗️
If you’re travelling today, please check
@nationalrailenq
ℹ️
@TPExpressTrains
@northernassist
Out with the old, in with the new.
We're building a new station for Morley, as part of our wider plans to revolutionise rail between Manchester, Huddersfield, Leeds and York.
Alternative travel plans are in place until 25 June, please check
@nationalrailenq
before you travel.
🛤️ This Saturday marks the beginning of the biggest piece of work of the programme so far at
#Stalybridge
.
📲 Please check before you travel until 6 April as our engineers work to deliver key upgrades.
📸 Take a look at these shots of the preparation work last weekend!
#TRU
🌉 Yesterday afternoon, we had the pleasure of speaking to residents in Batley about the new footbridge that's due to be installed.
This bridge will replace Lady Anne level crossing, enabling electrification of the line.
We want to thank everyone that took the time out to