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Post by angrycommuter on Feb 29, 2008 14:50:02 GMT 1
Does anyone have a history of the independant operators that currently run (South Yorkshire, M Travel, K-Line etc.) When did they start and what routes have they served in the past. What bus(es) did they start out with? Any information about independants that no longer exist would be good too. I found an excellent site on fotopic with pictures of several independants that have operated in the past - some that I have never heard of and some more familiar ones gallery41664.fotopic.net/Thanks in advance. |
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Post by Bradford Traveller on Mar 1, 2008 1:03:48 GMT 1
NOT much independents in BRADFORD. Pride of the road 632 ran to john st. yr bought them out, these was a five lane ends-greengates-pudsey service, bp
88 and its variants was set up to compete with yr (14) ,
there was competition on
615/617/620 routes for a while but that's all i remember.
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Post by riclam on Mar 1, 2008 1:18:05 GMT 1
yep, pride of the road won the contact for shop hopper in bradford in 1988 or so til early 90's, blue bus around 1995/6 on vrious services and bradofrd bus company in 2000-2003 approx using a mixed bag of tat
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Post by MT on Mar 1, 2008 17:00:14 GMT 1
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Post by m60800 on Mar 1, 2008 23:07:42 GMT 1
NOT much independents in BRADFORD. Pride of the road 632 ran to john st. yr bought them out, these was a five lane ends-greengates-pudsey service, bp 88 and its variants was set up to compete with yr (14) , there was competition on 615/617/620 routes for a while but that's all i remember. Blue Bus were virtually run off the road by YR. They ran a half hourly 621 between Bradford and Bierley. YR put on extras just before them (probably to the detriment of other routes) using their newest buses (5200-22 series) Abbeyways had the evening contract on 251/2 (or it could have been 603/4 in those days) but this was short lived. Halifax Joint Committee still run into Bradford of course. Ok - not an west yorks independent, but Lancaster City Transport used to run the 200 between Morecambe and Leeds via Bradford, on certain days of the week. It was an alternative to the x6 ! |
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Post by Burnside on Mar 1, 2008 23:16:42 GMT 1
NOT much independents in BRADFORD. Pride of the road 632 ran to john st. yr bought them out, these was a five lane ends-greengates-pudsey service, bp 88 and its variants was set up to compete with yr (14) , there was competition on 615/617/620 routes for a while but that's all i remember. Blue bus also operated the 624 between Bradford and Cottingley which led to an interesting choice to get to school. Yorkshire Rider Northern Counties Volvo Olympian or Roe bodied Leyland Olympian or Blue Bus Alexander bodied Leopard or Tiger? Blue Bus were virtually run off the road by YR. They ran a half hourly 621 between Bradford and Bierley. YR put on extras just before them (probably to the detriment of other routes) using their newest buses (5200-22 series) Abbeyways had the evening contract on 251/2 (or it could have been 603/4 in those days) but this was short lived. Halifax Joint Committee still run into Bradford of course. Ok - not an west yorks independent, but Lancaster City Transport used to run the 200 between Morecambe and Leeds via Bradford, on certain days of the week. It was an alternative to the x6 ! |
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Post by jimbob90 on Apr 23, 2008 18:21:24 GMT 1
I wish Black Prince were still around! I don't think the fleet would of changed much since 2005 either! The Scania Deckers could of run forever with Black Prince.
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