- Target:
- Northern Rail
- Region:
- United Kingdom
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It was reported in the Yorkshire Post on 27 August 2010, in an article by Paul Jeeves titled 'Faster journeys in prospect after meeting with train firm', that "[An] initiative [by Northern Rail] could see services streamlined between the spa town [of Harrogate] and the West Yorkshire city [of Leeds], quickening journeys by as much as seven minutes – about a fifth of the time it currently takes to travel between the two.
A meeting was held yesterday [28th August] between Northern Rail, which runs services between Leeds, Harrogate and York, and senior council and business officials.
Within three years, some services may not stop at Burley Park and Headingley stations in Leeds".
Such a move seems particularly flawed when you consider that usage of Headingley station alone has been approximately *double* that of two stations which are to benefit from such a move and has been at this level for the last 3 years*.
Meanwhile Burley Park has a usage level approximately equal to that of Hornbeam Park, Pannal, and Starbeck combined*.
In fact the only station of the four beneficiaries and two victims which can rival Burley Park's usage is Harrogate itself*.
The station usage does not justify reducing services to Headingley and Burley Park, the effect on those who depend on these services does not justify reducing services to Headingley and Burley Park, and the decision to penalise these two stations appears to be completely without justification.
*For evidence of this please see:
http://www.rail-reg.gov.uk/server/show/nav.1529
We, the undersigned, call on Northern Rail to reconsider their proposal to reduce the number of train services calling at Headingley and Burley Park stations.
People in the Kirkstall/Headingley and Burley areas count on these services, these people would be less able to use your trains should services to these stations be withdrawn, and the station usage data for these stations makes it apparent that these are amongst the more highly used stations on the line.
I sign my name in support of this statement.
The Save Headingley and Burley Park Stations petition to Northern Rail was written by Anonymous and is in the category Roads & Transport at GoPetition.