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Post by Craig on Mar 30, 2008 20:23:18 GMT 1
Does anyone know which Micro Rider services operated in Leeds, and also in the rest of West Yorkshire? I know most of the Leeds ones, listed below, but am not sure if there were others as well.
6 (later 26) City- Halton Moor possibly 38/39 Wortley - Colton? 42 Old Farnley - Gipton 58/60 Hyde Park Circular 61/62 City Circle 63/63A/63B City - Halton Dial - Cross Gates 66 City - Tyersal 68 or 69? Cardinal Estate - City - Fearnville possibly 291/2/3/4 Moor Allerton shopper services?
There was at one point a 52A Leeds - Morley route, but when I was growing up in Morley I seem to remember there was either a 52A and also a 52B (or could have been 53A/53B) and one of them went down King George Avenue, but I have never been able to find any evidence! - can anyone help?
Then there were the CB services, which I have as being:
CB1 Centreline (precursor to today's FreeCityBus) CB2 City - Hunslet - Torre Road (via today's 61 route) CB3 City - Cottingley (via Woodhouse, Armley, Wortley) CB4 City - St James Hospital via Rail & Bus Stations and LGI CB5/CB6 City - New Farnley/Tong (via Woodhouse, Armley)
Can anyone add or comment?!
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Post by Burnside on Mar 31, 2008 14:37:03 GMT 1
In Bradford:
810 Shipley - Idle - Thorpe Edge - 5 Lane Ends 811/2 5 Lane Ends - Bolton - Bradford 814/5 Shipley - Wrose - 5 Lane Ends
810 later extended to Hirst Wood, 811 & 812 later extended to Shipley replacing 814 and 815 (the basis for the current 845), but not sure whether these happened after Micro Rider names were discontinued.
Others i remember: 845 Bradford - Buttershaw - Wibsey 847 Bradford - Horton Bank Top 896 Bradford - industrial Museum - Ravenscliffe 649 Bradford - Shipley - Esholt - Menston 659 Bradford - Baildon - Lucy Hall Drive 679 Bradford - Gaisby Lane - Shipley
2 i'm not sure of: 677 Bradford - Crag Road - Shipley - Shipley - Shipley Glen 678 Bradford - Owlet Road - Shipley - West Royd
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Post by www.buseireann.ie on Mar 31, 2008 16:21:16 GMT 1
Not sure if these were micro rider services, but they did use micro rider branded mini busses. All services served parts of the following route exceps 26B which i believe served the full route at one point!
26/A/B and 27/A Seacroft, Cross Gates, Colton, Temple Newsam, Halton Moor, Cross Green, Richmond Hill, Leeds, Hyde Park, Armley, Wortley, Cottingley.
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Post by Craig on Mar 31, 2008 17:56:13 GMT 1
Yes, at one point the 26, 27 or some similar permutation ran from Monkswood Gate all over East Leeds and then carried on to Wortley/Cottingley or Cardinal Estate. (The Seacroft extensions were to replace the 98/99 services).
If memory serves that CB3 Leeds to Cottingley hung around for a long time, first taken over as the 26 as you mention, then reduced to evenings/Sundays as the 67A, then it became the 73A before they finally withdrew it completely.
Talking of long routes does anyone else remember when the 97 ran Leeds to Cross Green, but via Woodhouse, Armley, Wortley, Farnley, Bramley, Kirkstall, Headingley, Meanwood, Chapel A & Harehills! I wonder if some poor fool ever boarded in the City hoping to have a quick 5-minute ride back home to Cross Green..?
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Post by nick on Mar 31, 2008 18:51:23 GMT 1
Imagine getting on. Do you go to cross green. Yeah we do an hour later you just at Harehills haha laugh out loud
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Post by jack97 on Mar 31, 2008 23:53:12 GMT 1
was 629 a micro rider or was this a first route for bradford?
also 600 shopper service in bradford could have been one altough was run by pride of the road for a while.
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Post by Bradford Traveller on Apr 1, 2008 19:00:20 GMT 1
In Bradford: 2 i'm not sure of: 677 Bradford - Crag Road - Shipley - Shipley - Shipley Glen 678 Bradford - Owlet Road - Shipley - West Royd UGH...'? These were WEST YORKSHIRE\BLAZEFIELD frequent hoppa routes from the provincial house stands . Part of this route was still served by big bus cos the BRADFORD-ilkley 650 was diverted through owlet. Around the time that bus operators around the country used minibuses at increased frequency but the overall capacity was the same but the idea was to attract new passengers who'd see a bus quite often and think it's a good service. when BRADFORD area wy services became part of the yr network these rotes reverted to big bus at the previous frequency.
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Post by Burnside on Apr 1, 2008 20:14:01 GMT 1
In Bradford: 2 i'm not sure of: 677 Bradford - Crag Road - Shipley - Shipley - Shipley Glen 678 Bradford - Owlet Road - Shipley - West Royd UGH...'? These were WEST YORKSHIRE\BLAZEFIELD frequent hoppa routes from the provincial house stands . Part of this route was still served by big bus cos the BRADFORD-ilkley 650 was diverted through owlet. Around the time that bus operators around the country used minibuses at increased frequency but the overall capacity was the same but the idea was to attract new passengers who'd see a bus quite often and think it's a good service. when BRADFORD area wy services became part of the yr network these rotes reverted to big bus at the previous frequency. Like i said, two i'm not sure of.
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Post by riclam on Apr 1, 2008 21:09:04 GMT 1
was 629 a micro rider or was this a first route for bradford? also 600 shopper service in bradford could have been one altough was run by pride of the road for a while. no the shop hopper wasnt one, it stared way before micro rider
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Post by Bradford Traveller on Apr 2, 2008 11:31:39 GMT 1
the BRADFORD 629\810-815 network was based around the new Morrison store and services interworked here...'?. prior to this opening, 811\2 ran thro part of Ecclesill ...'? and was called bolton belter .
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Post by jack97 on Apr 2, 2008 12:42:19 GMT 1
678 was in the end with 676 part of the 3 times a day service up to baildon
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Post by jack97 on Apr 2, 2008 13:14:35 GMT 1
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Post by bristololympian on Apr 6, 2008 22:26:56 GMT 1
There was the 'A1' service which ran in Yeadon & Guiseley.
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Post by A1YBG on Apr 6, 2008 23:34:21 GMT 1
Horsforth (Leeds) Shopper Service 31 and 32 Before the StarRiders came!.
Gaz
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Post by nick on Apr 9, 2008 7:55:33 GMT 1
I am sure that the 33 when it was a off peak journey(Leeds-Otley went to Westfield via present route than did the 966 route to menston before coming over the chevin to otley)
And all the Otley locals
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Post by A1YBG on Apr 9, 2008 23:28:22 GMT 1
yeah I remeber them in otley' routes were 776, 777, 778, 779 for minis then normal services were 780, 781, 782, 784 and X84 ect. Going back some years!! Gaz.
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Post by nick on Apr 10, 2008 8:24:45 GMT 1
No there was the 732/735/736 services, X84(784 On Eveings and Sundays) and the 780 along side the 781 and the 731
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Post by Russ on Nov 2, 2008 14:40:07 GMT 1
I remember the micro-riders in Seacroft but not to sure on the routes, one was the 27? coming down Ramshead Hill next to St Richards church, the other was at Dib Lane shopping parade but cant remember route number.
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Post by Craig on Nov 4, 2008 16:53:44 GMT 1
As mentioned previously on this thread, there was an off peak 98 and 99 which started at Monkswood Gate or somewhere around there, and went through the estates to I think Halton Moor, and these eventually were joined up as part of the 26A or 27B or something - back in the days when letters on the end of service numbers was fashionable. I don't know if the 98/99 were MicroRider routes though?
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Post by nick on Nov 4, 2008 17:05:56 GMT 1
Craig are we taking about the 98/99 Leeds-Wetherby routes that are present today or some other routes that have the same service number?
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Post by Craig on Nov 4, 2008 17:09:53 GMT 1
No, they are two entirely different things.
The 98/99 I refer to were local services in East Leeds as I have discussed.
The Wetherby services were originally numbered (if memory serves) 796-799, but were renumbered after the sale of West Yorkshire to Yorkshire Rider.
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