Why do we need a new railway between Manchester and Leeds via Bradford?

From: Robert Foster, Skipton.

It is time to put a stop to suggestions that there should be a brand new railway between Manchester and Leeds via Bradford. At vast cost, the existing Manchester-Leeds line via Huddersfield is being upgraded and electrified, and some of it restored to quadruple track, which should permit timings between over the 42½ miles between those cities to reduce to 40 minutes.

The valleys that led to its becoming the wool capital of the world, make Bradford difficult to serve by rail. Moreover if a new line were built, Bradford would then have no fewer than three railway stations when the emphasis over the past 60 years has, where practicable been to reduce city stations to just one – for example Edinburgh, Leeds, Nottingham etc.

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