yorkshire rider

[samba]

on here write down your best memories from days gone by and when buses had lots of charracter, the noises and the smells. i always from school got the 652 from ilkley to shipley everyday it would be 5501-04/09-11 or 5515/16 this is when 5504/09/15 and 5516 were painted old west yorkshire red. those were the days.

[riclam]

For me it is an Atlantean/Roe or Olympian/Roe on Greengates circular in Bradford, used to catch it alot! OR an ex Leeds jumbo on 47 to Temple Newsam

[Burnside]

My favourite memories are of ECW bodied Olympians and VRT's appearing on Rider routes and i can also remember being on a Duple bus bodied Leyland Tiger leaving Temple Newsam and being bounced that high i nearly went through the roof. They don't make buses like that any more! Shame!

[kendall17]

riclam said:

For me it is an Atlantean/Roe or Olympian/Roe on Greengates circular in Bradford, used to catch it alot! OR an ex Leeds jumbo on 47 to Temple Newsam

roe atlantean open topper up for sale with the stafford bus centre. no details on it though =www.staffordbuscentre.com/Advert/this%20weeks%20ad.html

[19015]

One of the buses in which I rode to school 1957 - 1963 - The eight coaches were delivered to Samuel Ledgard in 1948 as half cabs. Five of these Duple bodied Layland Tiger PS1s were required, on a daily basis, to take children to Potternewton Mansion School in Leeds - photograph and information from Keith A Jenkinson's 1981 book 'Ledgard Way'.

[samba]

there a site i looked at this morning on fotopic "on the buses" and theres a page named national that has classic photos of white rose coaches ,wypte green and white and pics of west yorkshire road car its worth a loook.

[jimbob90]

For me it would probably have to be Atlanteans and MCW Metrobuses.

[mattyr88]

definatly the atlantians and mcx metrobuses but the nationals also. The scania n113 striders that still run 2day are part of the memory of the old yorkshire riders. i can never remember the original olympians though. maybe they were never aquented to the 96 or 57 bus routes

[Burnside]

I used to love using service 571 when they used Plaxton bodied Leopards on it. The hill between Southowram and Brighouse is ace!

[576 Gemini 2]

I remerber going to school into Bradford on the 578 from Bolderclough ( an extenstion of the 576 ) usually on one of the ex gmpte fleetlines at Halifax they rattle quite a bit then stuck in traffic . Coming back I used to the 610 to Queensbury usually a Olympian or an Atlantean in the 6352-6361 batch. I hoped to get 5040 the bus in Bradford Corparation livery but only got is once in 3 years

[hollywood2012]

hi does anybody remember the little mini buses called micro riders in the yorkshire rider days probabley around 1982-3 when they first appeared happy memories and i remember they was one inthe bradford fleet a black striped colour and could travel on that bus for free i think it was magic rider service 810/811/812 services used to run around idle to shipley and pullman avenue to shipley they were quite frequent

[westyorkshirebus]

That would have been 1986 onwards, as YR didn't start until 26/10/86.

[clifton]

Yes I remember the Microriders. I went on one of the first journeys in Leeds for the launch - YR 1700 - VW Optare Citypacer (Now preserved)! Got some freebie merchandise, I think I still have it somewhere in a box. If I can find it I'll put it on the scanner & post an image. I have an old photo of the black one, 1870 FR Sherpa. I think most of the minis were D, E or F reg's. FR Sherpas, MCW Metroriders, VW Optare Citypacer's & some Merc Optare Stariders - I remember Bradford putting one of those out on the X33! I saw the original batch of FR Sherpas in the works at Thornbury before they entered service.

[Bradford Traveller]

Feb 13, 2012 17:35:35 GMT 1 hollywood2012 said:

hi does anybody remember the little mini buses called micro riders in the yorkshire rider days probabley around 1982-3 when they first appeared happy memories and i remember they was one inthe bradford fleet a black striped colour and could travel on that bus for free i think it was magic rider service 810/811/812 services used to run around idle to shipley and pullman avenue to shipley they were quite frequent

The presentday minibus network in North Bradford is based on the original service the bolton belter (linking Bradford City centre and sideroads around Bolton Junction). Also known as bread vans. Don't remember it ever being free.
When the 5Lane Ends Morrisons opened, 629 and 810-815 started and interworked there.

[clifton]

I think you could travel for free on the black one (1870) if it turned up on your route? Don't think it ran in service that much though as I think it was used mainly for publicity etc.

[Burnside]

If i remember rightly, the early days saw the MicroRiders on the following routes:

810 Shipley - Thackley - Idle - Thorp Edge - 5 Lane Ends Morrisons
811 5 Lane Ends - Myers Lane - Bradford
812 5 Lane Ends - Bolton Road? - Bradford
814 Hirst Wood - Shipley - Wrose - 5 Lane Ends Morrisons

815 was added later and may have been the start of the Saltaire link

[fwybuses]

Not Yorkshire Rider but west yorkshire riding. the 226 Leeds - Not a clue? - Norwood - Halifax. Arrive ran it too, before eventually first company got it and it's now run 3 days a week, 2 times a day. A shame to cut of a Village.

Does anyone know where it went? And what other service it inetworked with? I know it was ran by striders!

[Danny]

I think it went from:

Halifax Via Hipperhomle - Norwood Green - Wyke - Scholes - Whitcliffe Mount - Checkheaton - Gomersal - Heckmondwike - Batley - Morley - White Rose Centre - Leeds.

[choughbus]

My journeys to school were on the 15/16 routes of Leeds City Transport the buses were usually the MCW bodied Leyland PD3s or a FUB registered Roe Fleetline and on one occassion the 1966 33ft Fleetline thats now at Kieghley bus museum Later memories include the mournful whine of the AN68 Atlanteans labouring up Coal Hill Lane in Pudsey The picture is of two of my favourite LCT vehicles

[deerfold]

I remember the 226 (and even more round the houses 227 in an evening). The first time I caught it was by accident - I just got on a bus that said "Halifax" on the front without realising it took an hour and three quarters.
There used to be one 223, one 224 and one 226 an hour between Halifax, Cleckheaton and Leeds with the 223 and 224 being rather faster - the nearest service to all 3 now is the 255.

The 226 is a shadow of its former self with just 2 short daily runs between Halifax and Norwood Green (still an improvement on the previous 3 days a week).

I used to like catching a red bus for a change in Halifax - and later an Arriva.

Even further back there were peak express services on the X23 and X24 from Halifax (with 1 or 2 extending to Ripponden and possibly Rishworth - will have to find an old timetable) which were limited stop versions of the 223 and 224. At the time of the express from Ripponden it would have been gently competing against the half hourly 508 Leeds - Halifax - Sowerby Bridge - Ripponden - Rishworth in the mid to late 80s.

[deerfold]

Feb 13, 2012 20:57:33 GMT 1 Burnside said:

If i remember rightly, the early days saw the MicroRiders on the following routes:

810 Shipley - Thackley - Idle - Thorp Edge - 5 Lane Ends Morrisons
811 5 Lane Ends - Myers Lane - Bradford
812 5 Lane Ends - Bolton Road? - Bradford
814 Hirst Wood - Shipley - Wrose - 5 Lane Ends Morrisons

815 was added later and may have been the start of the Saltaire link

Halifax had microriders numbered 82x - these were then rationalised into the 830-833 in 1994 with only a much shortened and infrequent 832 remaining today.

[mic]

mine would have to be the Gold rider coaches 1610/13/14/15/16/17/19 went on all these