Yorkshire
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A big Yorkshire welcome to our expanding guide to the most scenically diverse region of the UK with Britain's favourite city at its heart.Scroll down this page to get up to date with what is going on in Yorkshire and some of the newest additions to Yorkshire.guide
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Our A to Y The And below, some of our newest items about Yorkshire issues and events in more detail ....... Countdown to Christmas
There have already been many Christmas fairs and markets in cities, towns and villages and there are more yet to come, with some of the larger markets continuing right up until Christmas.
One of those is the St Nicholas Fair in Yorkshire's principal city
Otley Christmas Tree Festival
Yorkshire seats turn Conservative
The Conservative Party gained several Yorkshire seats from Labour as they won a substantial overall majority in the 2019 General Election.Yorkshire seats taken from Labour were Colne Valley, Dewsbury, Don Valley, Keighley, Redcar, Rother Valley and Wakefield and also the part-Yorkshire seats of Bishop Auckland and Stockton South. Another Conservative win was Penistone and Stocksbridge, which was a Labour win at the last election before the past MP's changes of party ended with the Liberal Democrats.
Despite their gains, the Conservatives were driven into third place behind the Brexit Party in the Labour held seats of Barnsley Central and Barnsley East.
Find the results in 60 Yorkshire constituencies on our
Election 2019
Delayed new trains means last-minute cuts to new timetables
The new timetables should see more of the long-awaited Nova 1 and Nova 3 trains which have started to appear on TransPennine Express (TPE) services over the last couple of months, but there has been a delay in the delivery of some of these trains.
New railway timetables from Sunday (December 15) were to see TransPennine Express services extended to provide a new hourly direct rail service between Yorkshire and the Scottish capital Edinburgh.
But many of these Liverpool to Edinburgh journeys are being cancelled under an amended timetable until January 5.
While some direct services to Edinburgh and beyond already operate from
At Middlesbrough, Northern will be operating two more journeys per day on the Esk Valley line to Whitby.
Northern also has new trains being built by Spanish company CAF, including Class 195 diesel sets and Class 331 electric sets. Their introduction, originally intended to remove the 1980s bus-like Pacer trains from the system by the end of this year, is also behind the original schedule. On November 22, Northern announced this week that 35 of the 101 planned trains were now in service and it is now citing May 2020 as the expected date for completion of the roll-out of the new trains.
Travellers in western parts of Yorkshire have a brand new operator if their journey takes them on to the West Coast Main Line. Virgin Trains franchise there came to an end on December 8, a week ahead of the timetable changes, to be replaced by new operator Avanti West Coast, which is a partnership between First Group and Trenitalia, a subsidiary of the Italian government-owned railway. The UK government’s privatised railway system sees it awarded the franchise until 2031, which means it expects to ultimately operate the first HS2 services.
Who operates rail services in Yorkshire? See our 
Yorkshire's cycling towns for 2020 announced
Four of them
Cyclists have previously had fleeting glimpses of
Just outside the eastern edge of the Yorkshire Dales, the town of
In the north east of Yorkshire,
The market town of
The event next year will be held between Thursday April 30 and Sunday May 3. The full routes will be announced on January 17, 2020.
More information can be found on the
Tour de Yorkshire Add your event to our diary
Are you organising a major event in Yorkshire?Let us know about it on our new easier to use
Events diary
The HS2 effect
Our Yorkshire.guide study, The HS2 Effect, has for the first time assessed the effect of building HS2 on each of the cities and major towns in the Yorkshire region, including those major centres the designed HS2 route completely ignores. On each home page for the biggest cities and towns in Yorkshire, we have added one of three simple ratings based on convenience and time saved over present-day services if travelling to London. You can read about the study in more detail at:
The HS2 effect
Do you know your Yorkshire?
Can you name the seven cities of Yorkshire?Which were the first three to be recognised as cities?
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How about the seven largest towns and cities of Yorkshire?For the answer see:
Where are the nine horse racecourses of Yorkshire?Which of them stages the world's oldest classic race?
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Which were the five highest-placed Yorkshire football teams in the 2018-19 season? End of season promotions and relegations saw which four Yorkshire teams moving in or out of the Championship?To find the answers see:
If a board game was to feature Yorkshire’s four busiest railway stations, which would they be?For the answer see:
How many of Yorkshire’s five highest mountains can you name?For the answer see:
Where were the eight start and finish locations for the 2019 Tour de Yorkshire cycle races?For the answer see:
Based on district local authorities, where are the seven largest populations in Yorkshire?For the answer see:
On Ilkla Moor Baht ’at
If you’re from Yorkshire you will probably recognise our background picture as the Cow and Calf Rocks on Ilkley Moor, famous as the location of the Yorkshire dialect anthem "On Ilkla Moor Baht ’at". More on