Aire Valley
Rail Users' Group

Working to improve rail services
in the Aire Valley

AVRUG campaigns for rail users along the Aire Valley routes on issues such as:

Adequate seats
Quality information at all times
Station improvements
Car parking provision
Increased trains at each end of the day
Better weekend services
Improved services for Gargrave and beyond.

The Airedale line links Leeds and Bradford to Shipley and stations to Skipton. It is among the busiest rail routes outside the south-east, carrying, along with the assocated lines linking Leeds with Bradford Forster Square and Leeds and Bradford to Ilkley, over eleven million passengers a year. Our trains are almost exclusively formed of modern air-conditioned electric-powered Class 333 four-car units.