SIR – Re Mr Watson’s letter (T&A, April 15) regarding my comments about the new Low Moor station site. As with regards to the Spen Valley Line, this was connected to the original station until it closed in the mid-Sixties. It just simply cannot be linked up with the main line in the future because of the severe curve under the Cleckheaton Road bridge.
Apart from this the station should be built on the original site because it would have access to the M606. Plus, there is a disused car park which was built to be used by visitors to the failed Transperience Museum. Also, the new station will cause havoc at the junction with New Works Road and Cleckheaton Road.
Of course we can’t have it all ways but it seems more sensible to build it on the original site, as there is plenty of room and it is away from residents’ streets. Mind you, the station hasn’t been built yet. Will they come up with more excuses as they have done in the past?
B Barraclough, New Works Road, Low Moor
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