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  • Standedge Tunnel (Leeds/Huddersfield to Manchester line) "closed until

    From NY@3:633/10 to All on Monday, January 26, 2026 19:58:15
    Subject: Standedge Tunnel (Leeds/Huddersfield to Manchester line) "closed until Thursday"

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly5e5lj595o

    Brings back memories of the much more serious fire in 1984 in Summit
    Tunnel (the other Yorskhire/Manchester Pennine tunnel).

    I see that diverted trains via Summit are connecting with a
    rail-replacement (bus?) service from Dewsbury to Huddersfield. I wonder
    why Transpennine aren't running the normal Leeds-Huddersfield trains
    using Leeds-Manchester paths which are truncated at Huddersfield.

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  • From Marland@3:633/10 to All on Monday, January 26, 2026 21:18:06
    Subject: Re: Standedge Tunnel (Leeds/Huddersfield to Manchester line) "closed until Thursday"

    NY <me@privacy.net> wrote:
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly5e5lj595o

    Brings back memories of the much more serious fire in 1984 in Summit
    Tunnel (the other Yorskhire/Manchester Pennine tunnel).

    I see that diverted trains via Summit are connecting with a
    rail-replacement (bus?) service from Dewsbury to Huddersfield. I wonder
    why Transpennine aren't running the normal Leeds-Huddersfield trains
    using Leeds-Manchester paths which are truncated at Huddersfield.


    Lots of water being sprayed there, though the article doesn?t say I wonder
    if the FB had brought in a portable pump and were sourcing the water from
    the adjoining canal tunnel via one of the joining adits . They were left
    from the tunnels construction which used the canal tunnel to remove construction spoil.

    GH

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