Traffic and travel: Heavy snow means buses can not get to these parts of Halifax and Calderdale

Because of the weather, Metro says passengers can use any valid bus ticket on any operator’s bus service in West Yorkshire.

The following Calderdale routes are being hit by the snow:

530 - not serving Fountainhead Village

549 - terminating at Brighouse Bus Station

561/562- unable to reach the following stops: Triangle, Lower Deer Play Farm, Mill Bank, Upper Deer Play Farm, Mill Bank Rd Lower Mill Bank Road, Birks Lane, Mill Bank, Cottonstones, Lumb Ln Lumb Bridge, Lumb Lane Alma Ln, Alma Lane Public House, Carr Farm, Lighthazles Road, Clough House Farm, Blackshaw Clough Bridge, Soyland Town, Cross Wells Rd Causeway Head Lane, Cross Wells Road Blue Ball Rd, Lane Head Rd Shaw Edge Farm, Lane Head Road Hob Lane, Soyland Town, Making Place Hall, Soyland Town, Cow Ln Soyland Town Road, Ripponden, Stony Lane, Ripponden, Royd Lane Maude Ln and Ripponden.

Alternative stops are Rochdale Road School, Triangle, Oak Lane Sandy Dyke Ln, Elland Rd School Close and New Bank.

526 - omitting Bradshaw House Farm, Bradshaw Hall, Row Farm, Upper fold farm, Taylor Lane, Roper Lane, Old Guy Road, Evelyn Terrace, Fleet Lane, Foxhill Grove, Queensbury Cenotaph, Brighouse road, Queensbury Mill, Medway, Club House & Hillcrest Drive. This service will terminate at Bradshaw Church.

576 - operating the 571 route from Queensbury to Bradford.

Meantime, Network Rail and train operators are advising people to check their journey with National Rail Enquiries before setting off.

Some routes are expected to be at greater risk of disruption, including the Calder Valley line from Leeds to Blackpool and Manchester via Bradford.