1980 Bradford bus routes and basic frequencies

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Thought I'd share with you some of Bradford's bus routes I found in a timetable changes guide I bought a little while ago, please add more if anyone knows of any more routes from 1980 or there about.

256 and 685 Bradford, Oakenshaw, Cleckheaton with 256 continuing on to Heckmondwike and Dewsbury. Both ran half hourly during Mon to Sat day (4 per hour Brad to Check) and the 256 ran half hourly til late, as well as Sun Pm. Sun AM was hourly.

363/4 Huddersfield, Brighouse's, Wyke (364 sticking to main road, 363 through village centre), Bradford then 363 continuing on to Manningham, Five Lane Ends, Wrose and Shipley. Both ran half hourly each combining to every 15 mins Brad to Hudds Mon to Sat day and hourly each eve and Sun with Shipley to Bradford only served from early afternoon on Sun.

570/1 Brighouse, Hipperholme, Coley (571), Lumbrook (570), Shelf, Wibsey, Canterbury Estate, Bradford. Both ran hourly each Mon to Sat day and mostly 2 hourly each eve and Sun from early afternoon. No Sun AM service.

576 Bradford, Queensbury, Boothtown, Halifax. Frequent service Mon to Sat day and 20 mins eve plus Sun PM. Half hourly Sun til early afternoon.

605 Holme Wood, Dudley Hill, Bradford, Bell Dean Road, Allerton Saffron Drive. 20 min frequency Mon to Fri day with extra buses Mon to Fri peak as well as extras Mon to Fri lunch and all Sat daytime. Half hourly eve plus Sun.

607 Bradford, Thornton Road, Thornton. Frequent peak and Sat daytime with half hourly service Mon to Fri day, eve and Sun.

610/11/12 see Leeds guide

614 Fagley, Bradford, Great Horton Road, Wibsey Moore Ave, Reevy Road. Frequent service Fagley to Moore Ave with Reevy Road having a half hourly service and some peak extras Mon to Sat daytime. Eve plus Sun mostly half hourly Fagley to Moore Ave only, no buses to Reevy Rd. This interworked with the 634 at Moore Ave every 30 mins all day every day.

615/6 West Bowling, Bradford, Allerton Stoney Lane (616) Saffron Drive (615). Frequent service Mon to Sat day with 15 min combined frequency eve plus Sun PM. Sun AM 15 mins combined Brad to Allerton and half hourly Bowling to Allerton.

622/3/4/5/6 Bradford Moor, Bradford, Manningham, Shipley and Hirst Wood (626), Saltaire A650 (rest), Cottingley (624), Bingley/Eldwick (622/3). Frequent service Brad Moor to Saltaire Mon to Sat day with Cottingley served peak time only, Bingley served half hourly as well as Shipley and Hirst Wood. 15 min combined frequency Brad to Saltaire eve plus Sun with Bingley/Eldwick served half hourly and Hirst Wood/Shipley not served by this route.

634 Bradford, Manchester Road, Wibsey Moore Ave. Half hourly all day every day. Interworks with 614.

643/4 Buttershaw, Wibsey, Bradford, Eccleshill. Frequent service Mon to Sat day with 20 min frequency eve plus Sun PM. Sun AM half hourly.

681/2 Bradford, Woodside (682), Shelf, Northowram, Halifax. 15 mins combined Mon to Sat day and 30 mins combined eve plus Sun.

683 Bradford, Woodside. Frequent service slotted in between 682 peak times Mon to Fri and one Sun morning bus.

686/7 Wrose, Bradford, Wyke, Westfield Lane (686), Scholars (687). At least every 15 mins combined Mon to Sat day and half hourly combined eve plus Sun.

688 Bradford, Norwood Green via Wyke. One bus each way Mon to Fri peak only, AM to Brad, PM from Brad.

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658/659- Bradford, canal road, Shipley, lower baildon, baildon village, Shipley glen

660/661 Brighouse, Bradford, Shipley, baildon, high baildon

676/678 bradford, Bolton woods, Shipley, lower baildon, baildon village (only 3 services mon-fri)

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648-bradford,apperley bridge, rawdon, Yeadon westfield,otley, Harrogate

649- Bradford, Shipley, baildon, esholt

652- Bradford, Shipley, menston, (otley), ilkley

653- Bradford, Shipley, menston, otley, Harrogate (654) knarsborough

670- Bradford, greengates, rodley, kirkstall, leeds

675/7- west bowling, Bradford, Bolton woods, Shipley, Shipley glen

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A couple of extras to add, forgot about these

X12 Manchester to Bradford via Oldham, Denshaw, Ripponden and Halifax. This ran until late 1980 and was part replaced by the 223/4 from Wyke to Manchester before that was again replaced by another X12.

223/4 Leeds, Wyke, Halifax then as X12 route to Manchester. I think this was all stops where as the X12 had limited stops.

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I used to catch the X12 from Bradford to Ripponden (on its way to Manchester) in the mid to late 80s running approximately 2-hourly. It was then re-routed to run from Leeds instead.

I don't remember the 223/4 except as a peak X23 from Rishworth to Leeds - do you know how often the 223/4 ran past Halifax? (I remember each being hourly as far as Halifax).

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Going from what I can remember reading somewhere, the 223/4 was quite short lived, something like a year, most 223s ran through to Manchester with 224s only running at odd times as extras or on weekends.

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After a bit of thinking then internet digging I found the site where I read the info on 223/4 from, just type in old saddleworth bus routes into the internet and it brings up a website charting the history of many old saddleworth routes.