Christmas/New Year services

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The Metro Changing Times booklet for December has a summary of services during Christmas and New Year, with the Boxing Day timetables available later in December.

Summary of services:
*Christmas Eve: Saturday service except for service 505, which runs normal weekday service, while service 517 doesn't run. Services start to stop between 6pm and 8pm, when services finish.
*Christmas Day: No Services except for voluntary services
*Boxing Day: Special half-hourly services in places on services in Leeds and Huddersfield between 9am and 6pm. 757 and 767 also run.
*Monday 27th & Tuesday 28th December 2010 and Monday 3rd January 2011: Sunday service except for Longstaff service 205, which runs a Bank Holiday timetable, 767, which runs a normal service and some DalesBus services will run.
*Wednesday 29th and Thursday 30th December 2010: Saturday service except for First services 226 and 505 and TLC service 606, which run weekday timetables. Also Hudds Bus services 85/85A services will run to Barnsley on both days. First service 517 will not run.
*New Years Eve: Saturday service except for service 505, which runs normal weekday service, while Hudds Bus servicse 85/85A and First service 517 will not be running. Services start to stop between 6pm and 8pm, when services finish.
*New Years Day: No services except for 757, 883 and 884.
*Sunday 2nd January 2011: Normal Sunday service
*Tuesday 4th January 2011: Normal services resume

wymetro.com/NR/rdonlyres/C5306F80-9775-4B54-BF91-D8E4CA4A29B7/0/CT56_infoleaflet.pdf

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Last bus details for First services on Christmas/New Years Eve. Bradford leaflet has advise for passengers to stay safe in the cold, wintry weather too. Not often that First are thinking about passengers.

Bradford: www.firstgroup.com/ukbus/new_service_updates/attach_1290589989_43_Christmas%20DL%20Bradford%20no%20crops.pdf
Cald/Hudd: www.firstgroup.com/ukbus/new_service_updates/attach_1290598563_45_Christmas%20DL%20Cald%20Hudd%20no%20crops.pdf
Leeds: www.firstgroup.com/ukbus/new_service_updates/attach_1290598008_44_Christmas%20DL%20Leeds%20no%20crops.pdf
York: www.firstgroup.com/ukbus/new_service_updates/attach_1290599301_46_Christmas%20DL%20York%20no%20crops.pdf

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For the first time in about 15 years, Metro have published details of last buses on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve and they are available on Metro's website.

Normally it is left to operators to provide this info but with Centrebus and others now running increasingly more routes and these operators not having websites, Metro have obviously decided to take control and do their own list, which is good.

Producing a big book as was done in the early 1990s would be even better!

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Interesting number of unbalanced workings on Christmas and New Year Eve on the 36,770 and X84 for example which will no doubt see some rapid returns to the depots.

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Dec 20, 2010 19:40:59 GMT 1 westyorkshirebus said:

For the first time in about 15 years, Metro have published details of last buses on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve and they are available on Metro's website.

Normally it is left to operators to provide this info but with Centrebus and others now running increasingly more routes and these operators not having websites, Metro have obviously decided to take control and do their own list, which is good.

Producing a big book as was done in the early 1990s would be even better!

Here's the link for it: www.wymetro.com/NR/rdonlyres/700A4B04-97BA-4D98-B69D-E54533EEE941/0/FinalBuses_eves2010_infoleaflet.pdf. Good to see Metro doing this. Makes it easier than trying to get all the information from various sources. Was something that GMPTE used to do until about 5 years ago.

Another weird working is the 90. The last Centrebus journeys are at 1722 from Leeds and 1727 from Greengates, while First run the 1822 from Leeds and 1927 from Greengates to Pudsey.

One last bus time not mentioned here is First's 184 service, where the last journey from Huddersfield at 1730 will run to Oldham bus station only not to Manchester.