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The Wakefield line is a railway line and service in the West Yorkshire Metro and South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive areas of northern England. The Wakefield line is coloured yellow on maps and publications by West Yorkshire Metro. [1]
The West Yorkshire mass transit system is a proposed transport system connecting the larger conurbations of West Yorkshire, England, with a central hub at Leeds. The city of Leeds is known to be the largest city in Western Europe without a light rail or metro-style system.
Metro is a public transport brand of the West Yorkshire Combined Authority which is, through its transport committee, the transport authority for West Yorkshire. It replaced the West Yorkshire Integrated Transport Authority on 1 April 2014. The West Yorkshire County Council was the transport authority from 1 April 1974 until 1 April 1986. It ...
The Harrogate line is a passenger rail line through parts of North Yorkshire and the West Yorkshire area of northern England connecting Leeds to York by way of Harrogate and Knaresborough. Service on the line is operated by Northern, with a few additional workings by London North Eastern Railway starting and terminating at Harrogate.
Metrocards of West Yorkshire Metro can be used between Leeds and Micklefield. Train operating companies are Northern for stopping trains, and CrossCountry , London North Eastern Railway and TransPennine Express for long-distance trains which continue beyond the termini of the local routes to and from Hull , Liverpool , Manchester , Newcastle ...
Merged with Bradford, Wakefield & Leeds Railway to for West Yorkshire Railway in 1863. West Yorkshire Railway amalgamated into the Great Northern Railway in 1865. [7] Leeds & Bradford Railway: 1846 [43] Still open Became part of the Midland Railway in 1853. Was the first railway to reach Bradford. [44]
Before the 1923 Grouping the first section of the line (Leeds–Bradford) was owned by the Great Northern Railway (GNR); and the entire remainder by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR), apart from the final section of the branch leading into Huddersfield, which was owned by the London and North Western Railway (LNWR).
North West, Yorkshire and the Humber — Huddersfield line: Manchester Piccadilly or Victoria to Huddersfield: 1849: North West, Yorkshire and the Humber: Planned Kirkby branch line: Kirkby to Wigan Wallgate: 1848: North West — Leeds–Morecambe line: 1846–1864: North West, Yorkshire and the Humber: OHLE, 25 kV 50 Hz AC (partial) Liverpool ...