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Post by Russ on Jan 10, 2012 23:43:42 GMT 1
Is it just me or when i was a kid about about 20 years ago did YR (Leeds) operate a service 50B along with the 50 and 50A.
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Post by Steve Macz403 on Jan 11, 2012 0:31:52 GMT 1
I remember the 50B on timetable schedules and on a Leeds Map. hardly ever saw it running , except the once when I was a kid back in 1996/97 was a 95' Dennis Dart/Alexander Dash operating on the route
There was also the 16B , which I saw running Evening and Sundays only, never saw it at all during daytimes, i can remember because I went to shakespeare primary school, 16 ran by Stoney rock lane and still does. ;D
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Post by Russ on Jan 11, 2012 0:45:15 GMT 1
I thought there was a 50B remember seeing a Atlantean on the service at St. Richards church Seacroft but cant say which year it was. No-one i ask remembers it.
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Post by A1YBG on Jan 11, 2012 10:48:02 GMT 1
If its the same 50B that am thinking it ran to Leeds Bradford airport. Ran same route to top of broadgate lane then turned right then on way to airport. Seemed it ran Sundays and I'm not sure if it ran on evenings too. Remember seeing the new olympians on it at the time. The one with the huge digital destination box.
As for the one in 1996/7 wasn't that when black prince tried to compete with YR when they ran 50A to hawksworth and YR ran the 50 with 50B and 50C???
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Post by Bradford Traveller on Jan 12, 2012 21:03:17 GMT 1
I think it merged with the 755 to present 97. 50B went to Yeadon? of an evening and there was a journey that ran along the headrow just b4 the last 508. Hence a mate (after a few) caught what if thought was a Bus to Shelf and ended up walking from Rawdon!
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Post by Craig on Jan 13, 2012 0:04:40 GMT 1
There was also the 16B , which I saw running Evening and Sundays only, never saw it at all during daytimes, i can remember because I went to shakespeare primary school, 16 ran by Stoney rock lane and still does. ;D It probably won't for much longer! I think people are right about the 50B going to the Airport and in later years I'm sure it was the 50C which was introduced in response to the Black Prince Hawksworth service, and both were relatively short-lived. Following deregulation Yorkshire Rider very much liked giving their services as many -A, -B and -C suffixes as possible for any route variation they could think of no matter how minor. Thankfully in the present day this has quite considerably reduced.
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Post by A1YBG on Jan 13, 2012 13:23:32 GMT 1
There was also the 16B , which I saw running Evening and Sundays only, never saw it at all during daytimes, i can remember because I went to shakespeare primary school, 16 ran by Stoney rock lane and still does. ;D It probably won't for much longer! I think people are right about the 50B going to the Airport and in later years I'm sure it was the 50C which was introduced in response to the Black Prince Hawksworth service, and both were relatively short-lived. Following deregulation Yorkshire Rider very much liked giving their services as many -A, -B and -C suffixes as possible for any route variation they could think of no matter how minor. Thankfully in the present day this has quite considerably reduced. Yes the 50c was in response to black prince 50A which BP gave up after a few months. The 50B was later replaced with a new service 37 which ran the same as the 1 route from Leeds to HoltPark then to Horsforth then the previous route of 50B to the airport again didn't last very long. Now the 757 now found its market to the airport!
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Post by fwybuses on Jan 15, 2012 19:08:27 GMT 1
Does anyone remember, i know it's not YR that did the route, but the 60 which was ran by H&D ran Otley to Pateley Bridge?
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Post by jack97 on Jan 18, 2012 1:36:59 GMT 1
yorkshire rider service x33
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Post by www.buseireann.ie on Jan 18, 2012 17:41:43 GMT 1
Ah the 60, one of many good routes not well thought of This is a route which would have been well used and profitable if it were more widely publicised (e.g through adverts and/or press releases in the Harrogate local press, Wharfe Valley Times/Wharfedale Observer, posters in Pubs throughout Nidderdale, Otley and surrounding areas).
I'm sure the intended market was not just people living on the route or within a short car ride of it around Blubberhouses Moor, people living in Yeadon/Guiseley for example may have been interested in such a route for a alternative day out in another part of the Dales bearing in mind how easy Otley can be accessed. You hear many people talking about travelling to Ilkley, Harrogate etc from Yeadon, if they knew such a service existed I'm sure Patley Bridge during good weather would have been a well used option.
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Post by fwybuses on Jan 18, 2012 19:16:07 GMT 1
I know it went Otley - Pately Bridge do you know possible where it went via. I'm guessing up past the golf balls, but would hazard a guess it'd go through villages along route.
It was booked a MPD from Harrogate, did it interwork with the 24 in Pately i know H&D had a 23 aswell, which had a alternate route from the 24, and only ran a few times a day so guess it interworked with 60.
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Post by www.buseireann.ie on Jan 19, 2012 14:51:37 GMT 1
The 60 was a stand alone service except for one or two journeys which I believe possibly interworked with either a school run or one of the school day only 24s (there was an odd journey around 3pm from Patley Bridge which had no suitable inbound journey, the previous inbound journey arrival being around 1.30pm), the service basically followed the B road up as far as the Fewston turn off, then went down by Fewston before emerging on the A59. Somewhere just off the A59 it met the X59 service and then It then went up another road a short distance along the A59 around Blubberhouses Church where you could see the road past the American defence base running parallel to it. After 5 miles and a couple of country lanes later, the route emerged on the main Patley Bridge road around Darley.
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Post by jack97 on Jan 21, 2012 15:36:30 GMT 1
661 baildon-scholes/brighouse
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Post by Steve Macz403 on Jan 25, 2012 23:53:54 GMT 1
couple of other routes but i remember the 44, when it went from Whinmoor to Pudsey via Roundhay Road, Bramley, Swinnow it certainly was a unique route, i think it was ruined when they changed the route Pudsey to city centre and then to White rose via Beeston. (Surely the 9 and 711 Were a lot faster ) Also Harrogate and Districts 78/78A/79 pops upi remember the Volvo B6/Alexander Dashes on here these buses had branding as well. www.flickr.com/photos/6228_leeds/6010863723/in/photostream/ 6228 Leeds' Flickr Copyright Scott Poole.
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Post by Bradford Traveller on Jan 26, 2012 1:07:22 GMT 1
661 baildon-scholes/brighouse 661 never went to Scholes/Brighouse.
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Post by Bradford Traveller on Jan 26, 2012 1:10:14 GMT 1
Does anyone remember, i know it's not YR that did the route, but the 60 which was ran by H&D ran Otley to Pateley Bridge? Many years ago there was a Tue only service 29A? that ran a similar route.
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Post by jack97 on Jan 26, 2012 17:05:53 GMT 1
ummm think you find it did and then the number changed to 626 which it currntly is today, i should know i lived on the route for 20 years!!!! so if it didnt go there then where did it go?
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Post by 576 Gemini 2 on Jan 26, 2012 19:32:59 GMT 1
661 baildon-scholes/brighouse 661 never went to Scholes/Brighouse. 661 started life as the 61 operated by WYRCC and between Bradford and Baildon via the route of the present day 626 service till 1990. When the services of WYRCC and Yorkshire Rider"s Bradford were intergrated in April 1990 it along with sister route were extended accross to West Bowling until July 2000 when it was replaced by the 675/677 between West Bowling and Bradford and 625/626 between Bradford-Baildon As interesting side note the 661 was the last WYRCC service to work from Bradford depot before the intergrated of YR/WYRCC routes. VRT (1)765 SUB 789W working the last service for WYRCC on the route
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Post by jack97 on Jan 27, 2012 16:40:52 GMT 1
ok well done what whatever you say it didnt always run just to bradford then extend to bradford, i am certain and will prove it that it ran to brighouse and also that it at some point ran to scholes/wyke aswell, like i said i should know as i have lived on the rout efor some 20 years, will dig some photos out and scan them!!!!
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Post by Burnside on Jan 27, 2012 22:59:56 GMT 1
Scrolling to the bottom of this page: www.westyorkshirebuses.freeserve.co.uk/overground.htm "Services 660/661 West Bowling-Bradford- Baildon, Withdrawn, replaced by services 674-677 over West Bowling section of route and services 625 & 626 Bradford to Baildon" This was from July 23rd 2000. This is not to say the 661 never served Brighouse, because i honestly don't know, but it hasn't in the last 11 and a half years at least. To be honest, i thought they stopped using the 661 number long before First days...
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Post by westyorkshirebus on Jan 27, 2012 23:22:07 GMT 1
The 626 has run to Brighouse since at least deregulation, although it used to run to Bingley or Cottingley rather than Baildon at various times.
In 1985 and in 1981, the wyke services were the 364 and the 686/687
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Post by jack97 on Jan 28, 2012 0:22:16 GMT 1
correct about it running to west bowling, it did this until its change into first and the formation of 626 which runs today to brighouse, i actually believe the 661 ran to scholes/wyke or maybe brighouse before it was changed to west bowling in the 90's
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Post by jack97 on Feb 2, 2012 19:25:40 GMT 1
having looked through on fliker at some pics i am right in saying the 661 changed numbers to the 624 baildon-shipley-bradford-scholes/wyke then it was either changed back to 661 for a short time or went on to be 626 as it is today, they did also change route to west bowling at some stage and west bowling was served by 675 coach road-shipley-bolton woods-west bowling when the baildon bus was numbered 624. thanks
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Post by fwybuses on Feb 2, 2012 22:02:24 GMT 1
Just show you how times coming back round on it's self. Coach road will be once again served by the 67* range of routes!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2012 21:11:39 GMT 1
Does anyone remember the Yorkshire Rider Leeds service 7 from Leeds to Rothwell? I'm not quite sure which route it took, however I seem to think it may have gone via Belle Isle Road and Sharpe Lane?
I'd really appreciate it if someone could confirm the route.
Thanks, Martin
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