using diesel engines on the unelectrified sections of track. In August 2019, Network Rail announced a proposal to upgrade the track between Huddersfield and Dewsbury from two tracks to four; at the same time, they also stated their intent to electrify the line between Huddersfield and Leeds. The plans were being put out for public consultation. In July 2020, the then Transport Minister, Grant Shapps, announced a £589 million upgrade to line including the reinstatement of an extra two tracks between Huddersfield and Thornhill Junction, to provide four tracks between the two points. These plans were submitted in April 2021 with the expectation of a decision on whether to proceed in 2023. In March 2022, the first step in the Transpennine Route Upgrade programme was taken. A Transport and Works Act Order to begin works for electrification, track doubling in sections and station upgrades between Dewsbury and Huddersfield was submitted; approval was expected in early 2023. The TRU is an element of the Integrated Rail Plan for the North and Midlands that was announced in November 2021. This proposal includes full electrification of the Huddersfield line and, as well as the track quadrupling between Huddersfield and Westtown (Dewsbury), a grade-separated junction at Thornhill L.N.W. Junction, close to Ravenshorpe. Route details Metro (West Yorkshire) pre-paid tickets and concessionary fares are available between Leeds and Marsden. Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) fares are available for the Greenfield-Manchester section. Several of the intermediate stations listed were closed in the 1960s, as a result of the Beeching Axe, including many of those between Huddersfield and Manchester. All stations that are still open are in bold: Leeds–Huddersfield Leeds Copley Hill Goods Farnley and Wortley Cottingley (Leeds) White Rose, due to open in 2023 Churwell Morley Batley Staincliffe and Batley Carr Dewsbury: previously Dewsbury (Wellington Road) Ravensthorpe was named Ravensthorpe and Thornhill just after the station is Thornhill Junction with the L&YR. Trains from Wakefield (Westgate and Kirkgate railway stations) join the Huddersfield line here, giving connections from the Pontefract, Hallam and Wakefield lines. Mirfield L&YR junctions here to Low Moor and Halifax (the Caldervale Line): the service from the Huddersfield Line operates to Brighouse Heaton Lodge/Heckmondwike Junctions return the route to the ex-LNWR line Bradley Deighton Huddersfield: served by the Caldervale and Penistone lines. The railway station here was LNWR/L&YR joint owned. Huddersfield–Stalybridge here is Springwood Tunnel and Springwood Junction for the trains on the