1st low floor route

[westyorkshirebus]

Which was the first West Yorkshire bus route to be operated by low floor buses?

This is for FirstGroup and also other operators?

(I've borrowed this question from the SY boards by the way)

[northerner]

I think the first low floor route in Keighley was the 717 to Oakworth. That is what the R-reg Volvo B10's were bought for in 1997-1998. Not sure about Bradford, but their B10's were bought around the same time and i remember them on the 607 to Thornton.

[jackh]

I suppose for Leeds, it would of been the Scott Hall Road routes with the early Scania L113s models.

[westyorkshirebus]

I think the first major batch of low floor buses were actually (and this shows how different things are now) the 30 P reg Dart SLFs delivered in 1997 to Yorkshire Buses

So various routes in and around Dewsbury will have been the first low floor routes

[westyorkshirebus]

Sept 11, 2008 19:47:56 GMT 1 westyorkshirebus said:

I think the first major batch of low floor buses were actually (and this shows how different things were then compared to now) the 30 P reg Dart SLFs delivered in 1997 to Yorkshire Buses

So various routes in and around Dewsbury will have been the first low floor routes

[angrycommuter]

In Huddersfield, apart from the odd low floor Yorkshire Buses service, I remember some ex-York low floor N or P-reg Wright buses arriving in 1999. The were painted in various shades of green and cream (like the old Kingfisher colours) with a big orangey-red arrow pointing to the fact that it was low floor. I seem to remember them having a logo of First 2000, carrying you into the next millenium.

[nick]

Leeds i would of thought would of been the 1 Brown Line route.

[jackh]

Sept 12, 2008 17:32:10 GMT 1 @nick said:

Leeds i would of thought would of been the 1 Brown Line route.

Yes you think that but you're wrong as the Wright Axcess-ultralows arrived in 1998 for use on the Scott Hall Roads when the Superbus guideway commenced operation. The artics came a year later in 1999.

[markr]

Presumably the first low-floor double-deckers in West Yorkshire were the W-CWR batch in Leeds for 56/57 in 2000.

[olympian]

Sept 14, 2008 19:24:54 GMT 1 markr said:

Presumably the first low-floor double-deckers in West Yorkshire were the W-CWR batch in Leeds for 56/57 in 2000.

and arriva yorks alx 400's

[markr]

Sept 14, 2008 20:39:45 GMT 1 olympian said:

Sept 14, 2008 19:24:54 GMT 1 markr said:

Presumably the first low-floor double-deckers in West Yorkshire were the W-CWR batch in Leeds for 56/57 in 2000.

and arriva yorks alx 400's

Indeed, all were delivered well in advance of the opening of the East Leeds Busway - I'd briefly forgotten about that batch of buses.

[jml8371]

The first low floor buses operated in Leeds, were a batch of P reg dart SLF's, that were delivered in orange and were originally going to be used on a competition basis in Newcastle called "Tyne-Line".
This never came off and the buses stayed in Leeds for a short time before moving on within the group. (Mostly to Glasgow)

Jason
JML8371

[jackh]

Was this Tyne Line a FirstBus brand or was it Rider Group who had this company in the pipeline Jason?

[westyorkshirebus]

First. First Leeds were even using up the ticket stock at one point as shown below:

[rossbailey]

Hi

I always understood that the service number 5 (New Farnley - Armley - Leeds) was first low floor operated route in Leeds with the Scania L94UB wrights which for a while were based at Bramley Garage. They use to also get a run out on the on 16/17's as well at off peak times.

I remember when they were first delivered to Bramley garage in an All red color sceam as they were meant to be heading somewhere else within the group but ended up staying here before eventually heading to Cherryrow.

If also remember correctly Didn't they even name the Bramley based 8100's after a Kids school competition???