Northern Powerhouse Rail - Leeds City Region Station Work

WYCA would like to commission a piece of work to establish the strategic objectives of accommodating an Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) stop in Bradford (through a city centre stop or a parkway-type facility) to maximise the regeneration and economic opportunities for Bradford and to spread the benefits of the NPR around the Leeds city region. This is intended to inform and steer Transport for North’s technical workstream, including in particular the Sequence 2.5 work being carried out by Network Rail and HS2.

Additional objectives are: To understand any constraints, pre-requisites, scale and scope of intervention that would need to be addressed to facilitate NPR to serve Bradford. To understand the impact of a Bradford stop on the Leeds City Region economy and on NPR in costs and benefits terms. To understand the opportunity to maximise and spread the benefits of NPR around the city region by optimising the railway (and broader transport) network in Bradford.