Routes to Thirsk

[jc]

I could put this in the United Ripon thread, but then it is going off on a massive tangent.

Does anyone have any info on routes that operated from Thirsk up to about the turn of the century? From what I've gleamed from websites, photos, out-of-date bus stop cases etc...

United

Depot somewhere in Thirsk.

56? Thirsk- Bagby- Coxwold- Helmsley
57 Thirsk- Dalton- Carlton Husthwaite- Raskelf- Easingwold
Was there a 58? I spoke to someone last year who mentioned West Yorks, Pullman & Reliance running to Easingwold but not Smiths or United
59 Thirsk- Thirkleby?- Coxwold- Oulston- Easingwold

70 & 150 to Ripon as current route

Thirsk town services?

West Yorkshire

80 Thirsk- Easingwold- York - current 58?

Stephensons

31X - 1 return journey Thirsk- Dalton- Easingwold- York departing around 6am, evening return
57 - was this renumbered to 31X, an additional route via Dalton or shadowing Smiths 58?

Any light would be greatfully soaked up!!

[holland1987]

Rider York ran the 30 York to Easingwold up until 2001 normally using full sized single decker's with the occasional Olympian.

[jc]

So was it just the 40 that Reliance ran up to Helmsley then? That route must have been very circuitous, did it avoid Eastmoor?

Edit - Rider York had become First York by 2001 and I don't remember ever seeing a First bus in Easingwold. How often did it run?

[holland1987]

Never travelled on it to be fair. I remember Glenn Coaches once thinking of York - Easingwold services in 1998 but the owner decided to sell up to First.

[holland1987]

www.flickr.com/photos/peagreenbus/5212268542/

Rider York loaned this in 1993 for a few months.

[Matty]

Going off topic again....