Enjoyed your presentation. I do hope the conceptions come to fruition as all too often plans change and your are left with a disaster. Like happened at Glasgow Queen Street and Sunderland.
Thanks for the update, glad they are keeping the iconic buffet rooms they should look amazing refurbed. Big plans for the rest too, longer trains that’s good. No more crushes at peak times ? But I bet they still over fill even with longer trains. Looking forward to next update. 👍🏻
I think that's the plan. All the stations along the route inc Hudds are being upgraded upto 200m in length which would be a very long train. Whether train companies make use of longer platforms remains to be seen
Many thanks for great information but unsure about doleful music. One can not be too neutral, too quiet , or too unobtrusive, on educational video music,
Thanks. I take the music from TH-cam studio. It's in the same category as previous ones - "cinematic". I seem to struggle to select one due to top much choice
1:24 I know that you said "no plans to change the _front_ of the station" and backed it up with the inset image of the grand entrance portico. But for a moment I had cause to pause mainly because the station's Grade I listed, so of course there'll be no plans to alter as it is already prohibited. This then led me to 'well perhaps he actually said "throat of the station" which in my mind fits in better with the listed restrictions. 'No "front" it was ' I said to myself. [Thank you for getting this far as I have finally reached my point] Point being, presumably listed status especially Grade I level, includes _everything_ including the trackwork, the lot. How does this sit with weekend engineering work to improve the trackbed &c., &c.?
I'm not aware of the actual details of what a listed status means can be changed. There's very comprehensive docs about heritage status of various structures along the route www.networkrail.co.uk/running-the-railway/railway-upgrade-plan/key-projects/transpennine-route-upgrade/huddersfield-to-westtown-dewsbury/
Different bits of the station are listed separately. The Grade 1 listing only applies to the frontage and buildings facing onto St. George's Square. The overall roof and the cafeteria building on the island platform are Grade 2 listed, so more changes are permissible. Listing of any grade does not forbid any changes being made, it simply raises the bar that needs to be met to justify those changes. Huddersfield station is a magnificent structure, but it is also a working piece of infrastructure and not a museum. As I understand it, the operational side (track, signalling, switches and crossings) is not covered by the listed status. Nor should it be, as it's a working railway first and foremost.
@@Eric_Hunt194 Many thanks for setting things straight. I've had some bruising brushes with the immoveable guardians of these worthy regs. Hence my somewhat tongue in cheek reference to the track layout because it wouldn't have surprised me that logic had been cast aside and it too had been set in stone. Good to know that reason still prevails, thank you.
3:05 That footbridge, if that's the elevation, is an excrescence and looks suspiciously compliant with the finally being retired "heritage" good taste rules that anything changed, repaired or introduced today must be instantly recognisable as modern. On no account should it get anywhere near to fitting in with the original. Monstrous carbuncle springs to mind whenever I come across this arrogance and I thank God that somehow some grown ups have inveigled their way into decision making positions in the relevant national bodies. Yes that footbridge looks like the side air vent in a 1970s pebble dash concrete power station. Hope I'm wrong.
Good coverage....what a fabulous station.
Enjoyed your presentation. I do hope the conceptions come to fruition as all too often plans change and your are left with a disaster. Like happened at Glasgow Queen Street and Sunderland.
Ongoing progress seems quite advanced, so let's hope so
Thanks for the update, glad they are keeping the iconic buffet rooms they should look amazing refurbed.
Big plans for the rest too, longer trains that’s good. No more crushes at peak times ? But I bet they still over fill even with longer trains. Looking forward to next update. 👍🏻
I think that's the plan. All the stations along the route inc Hudds are being upgraded upto 200m in length which would be a very long train. Whether train companies make use of longer platforms remains to be seen
Many thanks for great information but unsure about doleful music. One can not be too neutral, too quiet , or too unobtrusive, on educational video music,
Thanks. I take the music from TH-cam studio. It's in the same category as previous ones - "cinematic". I seem to struggle to select one due to top much choice
1:24 I know that you said "no plans to change the _front_ of the station" and backed it up with the inset image of the grand entrance portico.
But for a moment I had cause to pause mainly because the station's Grade I listed, so of course there'll be no plans to alter as it is already prohibited.
This then led me to 'well perhaps he actually said "throat of the station" which in my mind fits in better with the listed restrictions.
'No "front" it was ' I said to myself.
[Thank you for getting this far as I have finally reached my point]
Point being, presumably listed status especially Grade I level, includes _everything_ including the trackwork, the lot.
How does this sit with weekend engineering work to improve the trackbed &c., &c.?
I'm not aware of the actual details of what a listed status means can be changed. There's very comprehensive docs about heritage status of various structures along the route www.networkrail.co.uk/running-the-railway/railway-upgrade-plan/key-projects/transpennine-route-upgrade/huddersfield-to-westtown-dewsbury/
Different bits of the station are listed separately. The Grade 1 listing only applies to the frontage and buildings facing onto St. George's Square. The overall roof and the cafeteria building on the island platform are Grade 2 listed, so more changes are permissible. Listing of any grade does not forbid any changes being made, it simply raises the bar that needs to be met to justify those changes. Huddersfield station is a magnificent structure, but it is also a working piece of infrastructure and not a museum.
As I understand it, the operational side (track, signalling, switches and crossings) is not covered by the listed status. Nor should it be, as it's a working railway first and foremost.
@@Eric_Hunt194 Many thanks for setting things straight. I've had some bruising brushes with the immoveable guardians of these worthy regs. Hence my somewhat tongue in cheek reference to the track layout because it wouldn't have surprised me that logic had been cast aside and it too had been set in stone.
Good to know that reason still prevails, thank you.
3:05 That footbridge, if that's the elevation, is an excrescence and looks suspiciously compliant with the finally being retired "heritage" good taste rules that anything changed, repaired or introduced today must be instantly recognisable as modern. On no account should it get anywhere near to fitting in with the original.
Monstrous carbuncle springs to mind whenever I come across this arrogance and I thank God that somehow some grown ups have inveigled their way into decision making positions in the relevant national bodies.
Yes that footbridge looks like the side air vent in a 1970s pebble dash concrete power station. Hope I'm wrong.
The new bridge looks to me to of "modern" design