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Post by marko576 on Nov 12, 2023 11:49:52 GMT 1
Revised timetables for the December FWY changes in Calderdale and Huddersfield are available on the Metro website. It's mainly timetable revisions with even more of a move away from clock face timetables. For example, the 521 will be every 18, rather than 15 minutes, on a Sunday daytime. Unfortunately, it appears that the 508 will remain hourly.
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Post by marko576 on Apr 17, 2022 10:07:54 GMT 1
For me it would be the 562 Halifax to Oldham. A nice route over the tops into Greater Manchester but alas probably one that will never be restored.
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Post by marko576 on Aug 25, 2019 10:39:15 GMT 1
Here's some that I can remember from the period just after deregulation.
W6 - Wyke to Scholes local service with the occasional trips to Norwood Green. Worked by minibus. 296 - Bradford to Pullan Avenue.
There was also quite a complex arrangement on the Clayton to Pudsey / Troydale route. 635-638 as depending on the time of day they started at either Clayton termini; Town End or The Avenue and ran to either Bradford Moor, Pudsey or Troydale. I seem to recall that there were 8 buses an hour in the peak.
The Sandy Lane to Apperley Bridge 629 service also ran as X8/X9 at one stage but I can't remember just when this was. It may well have been before deregulation.
And, here's just one more. Does anybody remember the 2 journeys a day service 603? This was short lived and introduced as a result of the work of a local councillor in Queensbury. It ran Bradford to Queensbury Cenotaph and then took the 526 route up New Park Rd before running down Brighouse and Denholme Rd to turn left at Queensbury traffic lights for its trip back into Bradford. I only caught it once.
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Post by marko576 on Jul 8, 2018 9:08:57 GMT 1
From what I remember it ran with 3 buses and was jointly operated with First Bradford providing 2 buses and Keighley & District the other. It was the X21 that took the place of the X67 morning and evening peak journey to/from Silsden.
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Post by marko576 on Dec 13, 2014 20:08:32 GMT 1
Its not 40 years, its actually 30 ! the last service to terminate at the Raggalds public house was the 278 Dewsbury /Queensbury run by Yorkshire Woollen District, (Now Arriva) an NBC Subsidiary during the last quarter of 1984. I only know this as I was a conductor on the 526/503 Newlands / Hunger hill section for the Metro Calderdale division of WYPTE, who then decided to extend the 526 HH Service to Shelf every hour Mon to Sat daytime to compensate for some of the service loss, hard to believe today but the first departure to Shelf was 0550! Of course the Shelf extension lives on today down to 3 journeys per day. Details of TJ Walsh's 800 service and the other very interesting service changes can be found on the Consultation page of the Metro site ,Bus service review page , Calderdale review outcome updated 12th December. Morrisons to the Raggalds by everybody's backyard in the Illingworth area, 15 minutes!!!It'll be interesting to see how many journeys operate late. The Cousin lane/ Turner Avenue/ Raw Lane bit will take at least 7 or 8 minutes I should imagine, even at the 30 mph speed limit. Then in the higher Illingworth area, some more pottering about in residential streets. No, try as I might, I cannot see any logical timing there. For a short period of time, probably early 1990's when the place held a late night disco, a 526 journey ran up to the Raggalds Inn on a Friday/Saturday night. I think it was around 23.05 as the last trip normally was at 22.15 through to Hungerhill.
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Post by marko576 on Jan 10, 2014 19:35:08 GMT 1
The January 2014 service changes are now available on Metro's website. Picking up on themes already discussed the 610 will now operate 2 hourly on a use it or lose it basis and the 653 is also reduced. The 570 is being withdrawn. January Service Changes
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