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12:20.

I’m currently in Huddersfield, having travelled in with Dawn in order for the two of us to work from the Community Rail Network office in the old water tower at the station. Getting in to the office is ‘fun’ nowadays as it sits inside a fenced off TRU compound!

The CRN water tower surrounded by building materials and plant. We have to skirt the edge of this lot to get into the office…

My morning’s been spent on a couple of ‘teams’ calls with some Northern Rail staff as background for a forthcoming RAIL magazine article. The chats were really informative, which will really help the article. Now, they’re finished I’m heading out to have a look at some more upgrade work on the line from here to Leeds. Feel free to pop back and see what I get up to…

14:20.

Platforms at Huddersfield slowly disappear under scaffolding.

I’m currently at Mirfield, where the new platform 2 is really starting to take shape.

Earlier I popped in at Ravensthorpe where an awful lot of earth is being moved around.

The new alignment is going to pass through the middle of this picture taken from the existing Ravensthorpe station. The existing alignment to the left will be abandoned.

17:30.

After a very long diversion at Ravensthorpe due to a footpath closure, I made it to the bridge West of Ravensthorpe where I got these pictures (captions later). As you can see there’s going to need to be some tree trimming before the line’s electrified!

185134 passes the site of the new Ravensthorpe station whilst working 2M78, the 1458 York to Manchester Piccadilly which is routed via Castleford and Healey Mills.
Whilst the other side of the line at Ravensthorpe has had vegetation cut back, the Eastbound side is in serious need of the same treatment.

21:45.

I’m back at home on what’s turned out (weatherwise) to be a lovely evening – something all too rare this year. Now it’s time to bring this rolling blog to an end with a couple more pictures from my TRU travels.

This scene will change dramatically over the next few years. Here’s 66847 approaching Thornhill LNW Jn from Healey Mills.
The site of the new Ravensthorpe station slowly takes shape. The bridge some of the other pictures were taken from is seen in the background.

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