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Post by nick on Apr 17, 2008 7:57:50 GMT 1
I remember when Metro or First Or Both(I Dont Have A Clue) went and extended every sunday service that terminated at the Bus Station to Clarence Dock(Kirkstall Buses Only)734/735,28,X84,96/96A,755,
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Post by huddsinfo on Apr 21, 2008 10:41:34 GMT 1
Can I just comment on HUddersfield?? Is this a bit early to send the 350 Marsden Hard End to Huddersfield into the grave as it is doing on April 27th ...it will be well remembered!!! Is there any photo's anywhere??? Why do they keep changing route numbers. It has been 350 since at least 1981 (I think?), and it was 50 before that does anyone know exact date?? Another route is the 335 Marsden Hard End to Huddersfield via Meltham, Holmfirth, Scholes, Lockwood. That changed many years ago but still ran between Holmfirth and Marsden with Stotts but that is going to the grave too on 27th as it is only running Holmfirth to Slaithwaite now. Memories!!!
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Post by westyorkshirebus on Apr 21, 2008 22:15:15 GMT 1
The Marsden services have been 350-352 and before that 50-52 since at least 1974 and the creation of the PTE
It's also interesting how often Wilberlee gains and loses a frequent 'big bus' service to Huddersfield. It's come and gone a few times since the 90s
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Post by jimbob90 on Apr 24, 2008 17:21:21 GMT 1
I remember Arriva's 448 service. I'm not sure if they had a couple of branded ECW Olympians on it for a while. Also the 423 Wakefield to Bradford.
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Post by nick on Apr 24, 2008 17:32:43 GMT 1
448 went From Somehwere in south wakefiled to leeds universty!!!
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Post by markr on Apr 25, 2008 12:32:36 GMT 1
448 went From Somehwere in south wakefiled to leeds universty!!! Buses served Bretton Hall, as that college came under Leeds University control, so it was decided to link the two sites. Some buses got as far south as Barnsley on there, and I think there was an X41 route as well. Never carried that many passengers north of Leeds city centre - I don't believe the service runs now.
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Post by jackh on Apr 25, 2008 15:53:43 GMT 1
Yes the 443/444 retreated in Leeds last Summer when Bretton Hall was closed and various University property en route as the link was no longer needed.
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Post by nick on Apr 25, 2008 15:59:03 GMT 1
446-Leeds Uni-Leeds-Wakefiled-Bretton Hall-Denby Dale 447-Leeds Uni-Leeds-Wakefiled 448-Leeds Uni-Leeds-Wakefiled-Bretton Hall-Hall Green-Barnsley Interchange!!!
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Post by basher37 on Apr 29, 2008 0:01:25 GMT 1
Some old Leeds routes here.
Quickstep service 6 Leeds-Bramley via Armley & Armley Heights using Nationals then Yorkshire Rider flooded the route..
Service 7 Leeds-Rothwell,when did this stop running?.
Service 11 rings a bell but can't remember where from/to at moment.
Service 14 was this a regularly daytime runner down Tong RD???
Service 16 Farsley/Rodley-Bramley-Whingate JCT/Tong RD-Leeds-Seacroft
Service 17 Rodley-Bramley-Armley Town Street/Armley nick-Leeds-Seacroft
Service 16 now does the 17 route,Whingate doesn't have direct bus to town unless you walk down to the Commercial Pub for the No 5 or Tong RD for No 4
Service 25/26 Leeds-Cross Gates/Swarcliffe rings a bell.
Service 37 used to do Halton Moor-Leeds-Raynville RD-Bramley/Pudsey on Evenings and Sundays
Service 38 has now also used to have service 39 with it that used to interact at Wortley one went to Colton and t'other the Garforth area both via Headingley,anyone remember this to confirm.
Service 40 used to interact with the 41 but the 40 went Seacroft-Leeds-Raynville Road-Bramley/Pudsey
44 AND 45 the 44 has stayed but it used to run Pudsey/Bramley-Raynville RD-Leeds then Primaly PK,Scot Hall RD,White Rose via Beeston and t'other destinations,can't remember of top of me head at moment.
Service 73 Moor Grange-Kirkstall-Raynville RD-Bramley-Greenthorpe.
Service 83 Rodley/Bramley-Stanningley RD/Armley Ridge RD-Leeds-Garforth,i think the 84 also came up Rodley way??
Service 86 has always done Middleton(Miggy),White Rose for a time but has always had a Bramley start but it used to go for a while go to Farsley!!!
Service 91 never used to serve Bramley shopping centre it used to be RA up Broad Lane then Pudsey until they changed the 41 to the 49 and now that does Bramley town street-Globe PUB-Broad Lane then normal route and 91 does Waterloo RD-Bramley and then picks up original route at the Globe PUB.
X11 Leeds-Pudsey,this as just recently stopped running
Plus they used to Headingley and Middleton garages.
The old coach station on Wellington Street,how coaches got in out/out of there...
The old WYRCC bus station on Vicar Lane
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Post by nick on Apr 29, 2008 7:38:17 GMT 1
Your 73 was infact a 76 service number.
6 changed when First got the route and went all the way to farsley i even think it went to Pusdey Bus Station at one point.
11 went from St.James Hosiptal to White rose or Morley not sure on that one.
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Post by Bradford Traveller on Apr 29, 2008 10:47:26 GMT 1
Your 73 was infact a 76 service number. 6 changed when First got the route and went all the way to farsley. I REMEMBER it as a 73. 6 served the gardens daytime [evenings was 71a later 15a]
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Post by Bradford Traveller on Apr 29, 2008 10:55:44 GMT 1
I'M SURE the x11's still running from pudsey lane end. prob means the regular pud-leeds day service.
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Post by basher37 on Apr 29, 2008 11:58:47 GMT 1
Your 73 was infact a 76 service number. 6 changed when First got the route and went all the way to farsley. I REMEMBER it as a 73. 6 served the gardens daytime [evenings was 71a later 15a] It was the 73 as it went along the bottom of my street xx.30 in Bramley and xx.00 back to Moor Grange,it was a regular for the 1664,1665 No series...
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Post by basher37 on Apr 29, 2008 12:00:13 GMT 1
Service 97 also used to come in the Bramley/Pudsey area,was this just a peak hour bus to help out the 91 which no doubt would get stuck in traffic??
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Post by Craig on Apr 29, 2008 19:02:08 GMT 1
It was the 73 between Greenthorpe-Moor Grange (and at one time this extended all the way in to Leeds), but was changed to the 76 to allow First to bring in the present day 73, though by this point the service ran something ridiculous like Saturday late evening only!
In answer to a few of the others mentioned...
The 7 was cut back to tendered early morning journeys only for quite a few years before getting the chop completely not so long ago.
The 25/26 ran from Horsforth Fleece Hotel via Kirkstall Road into Leeds (the 26 diverted around Horsforth Town Centre, Old Ball, Low Lane and Hawksworth Road first) and then as you mention continued to Swarcliffe via today's 56 route.
At one point the 44/45 had multiple variations (I think 44, 44A, 44B, 45, 45B) - some went to Wigton Moor, some Shadwell, and maybe the 'B' versions served Birchwood Hill.
The 83 and 84 did at one point run Rodley to Colton, and in later life the 83 ran Pudsey to Garforth (the Pudsey-Leeds section via today's 73 route).
The X11 is still here but indeed the Saturday service was withdrawn a few years ago - perhaps one of the longest running peak time and Saturday Leeds Fastaway routes?
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Post by nick on Apr 29, 2008 21:35:10 GMT 1
One seems to remember the 784 which ran the same route as the X84 but wasn't limited stop and always run by a strider or something.
Very peculiar that they ran a limited stop service during Monday to Saturday daytimes but as soon as it came to evenings and Sundays the limited stopping conditions were scrapped!!!
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Post by jml8371 on Apr 30, 2008 3:13:41 GMT 1
One seems to remember the 784 which ran the same route as the X84 but wasn't limited stop and always run by a strider or something. Very peculiar that they ran a limited stop service during Monday to Saturday daytimes but as soon as it came to evenings and Sundays the limited stopping conditions were scrapped!!! It was still limited stop, but the limited stop arrangement ended as it does now @ the outer ring road. The X84 used to start/end it's limited stop @ goverment buildings near to Lawnswood Cemetery. (It changed because metro wanted First to run it as an all stops service and they refused, so this was the compromise.) Jason JML8371
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Post by nick on May 1, 2008 20:34:48 GMT 1
Anyone remember when the 44 used to run from Pudsey to White Rose Centre. I remember this route as i once caught it and it was a MCW Metrobus. I am not sure whether this was Kirkstall run or Bramley Run. It would take over a 1 hour and 10 minutes to get to White Rose because in pudsey it did the route it does now!!!
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Post by jackh on May 1, 2008 20:42:46 GMT 1
The 44 was once run by the Quickstep unit at Kirkstall.
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Post by Craig on May 1, 2008 23:37:48 GMT 1
It was basically cobbled together from the 44 which still exists and the 20 to Cottingley/White Rose, which resulted in a long route through the city centre. It perhaps wasn't the best or most logical cross city route ever to have graced the streets of Leeds.
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Post by m60800 on May 8, 2008 22:09:43 GMT 1
One seems to remember the 784 which ran the same route as the X84 but wasn't limited stop and always run by a strider or something. Very peculiar that they ran a limited stop service during Monday to Saturday daytimes but as soon as it came to evenings and Sundays the limited stopping conditions were scrapped!!! It was still limited stop, but the limited stop arrangement ended as it does now @ the outer ring road. The X84 used to start/end it's limited stop @ goverment buildings near to Lawnswood Cemetery. (It changed because metro wanted First to run it as an all stops service and they refused, so this was the compromise.) Jason JML8371 Always thought this "Leeds" kind of limited stop a bit odd (picking up at all stops and only setting down after a certain point.) Remember being a passenger on one of these years ago. A lady walked to the front to get off near the Original Oak and was told to sit down until Ring Rd I think. I told her that if she was quick off the mark at Safeways he would be likely to stop to pick up and she might be able to hurry off. She did! (What a rebel eh!)
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Post by jml8371 on May 9, 2008 4:59:15 GMT 1
It was still limited stop, but the limited stop arrangement ended as it does now @ the outer ring road. The X84 used to start/end it's limited stop @ goverment buildings near to Lawnswood Cemetery. (It changed because metro wanted First to run it as an all stops service and they refused, so this was the compromise.) Jason JML8371 Always thought this "Leeds" kind of limited stop a bit odd (picking up at all stops and only setting down after a certain point.) Remember being a passenger on one of these years ago. A lady walked to the front to get off near the Original Oak and was told to sit down until Ring Rd I think. I told her that if she was quick off the mark at Safeways he would be likely to stop to pick up and she might be able to hurry off. She did! (What a rebel eh!) And what you both did was illegal and could have actually got the driver into some very serious legal trouble. (It has been done in the past. A VOSA official watched it happen once approx 5 or 6 years ago and had the driver prosecuted for it. Driver lost both his PCV & car licence and got a very heavy fine for it too.) Jason JML8371
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Post by Burnside on May 9, 2008 13:16:14 GMT 1
How would you stop it though? You get out of the cab and depending on who is trying to get off you could end up assaulted, or you drive on and miss people wanting to board?
Friggin ridiculous!
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Post by nick on May 9, 2008 17:15:16 GMT 1
It is a difficult situation to be in especially if you have yobs onboard they cant get chucked off until you reach a certain point on the route
Has Adel apart from the 28 ever had different service. And from what i can remember the 28 used to run up the ring road and past Lanswood School because the 97 went on weetwood lane. Anyone else remember that?
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Post by pub146g on May 9, 2008 18:56:32 GMT 1
How would you stop it though? You get out of the cab and depending on who is trying to get off you could end up assaulted, or you drive on and miss people wanting to board? Friggin ridiculous! The fact is you can't really stop it. If someone is determined to alight where they shouldn't then if they get chance they will and indeed does regularly happen on service 36 out of leeds where the first dropping off point is the Queens Arms on Harrogate Rd. Those who would prefer to alight at Stainbeck Lane are seen to slowly edge to the frontmost seats in the hope that there is somebody at the stop to get on and as soon as the doors open they're off like lightning! Of course, if they want to alight at Stainbeck Lane then why not get a 2 or 3? The journey time may be slightly quicker on the 36 but if there's nobody to board at Stainbeck Lane then the said passengers go whizzing past their stop and end up having to walk back!
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