Alt.Net.UK 'in the North' Conference
Venue
The conference will be held in Velocity,
a business and technology centre next to Bradford University
Velocity,
Angel Way, Listerhills
Bradford, West Yorkshire BD7 1BX
United Kingdom
Travel
Car
Velocity has plenty of free parking, but watch out for the one way system and closed
roads due to local building work.
Check Velocity's
directions page as this is correct given the current road closures.
Train
Bradford has two city centre railway stations, in general you will take a train
to Leeds then a 20 minutes local connection.
- The Interchange (also the coach and bus station) - which handles most of the local
services and direct trains to Manchester.
- Forster Square - local services and a couple of direct trains
a day to London.
Approximate journey times are:
- London Kings Cross - 3 hours
- Edinburgh - 4 hours
- Birmingham - 3 hours
- Manchester - 1 hour
Air
Leeds Bradford Airport is about
10 miles north of the City, the MetroConnect 737 and 747 bus runs to the Interchange Bus
Station
Local Hotels
In Bradford city centre there are three hotels very close to the Interchange Railway
station, all about 1 mile from conference venue
A short distance away, but still in the City Centre, near Forster Square Railway
Station, is the
Midland Hotel, again about 1 mile from conference venue
Just outside the city centre, about 1.5 miles from conference venue is the new
Etap Hotel
Food
Lunch will be provided on the Saturday by our sponsors Black Marble