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Post by westyorkshirebus on Mar 24, 2008 21:28:28 GMT 1
Can you all remember 'Flagship' services that Yorkshire Rider ran in the mid 90s
I believe it was mainly a Halifax and Huddersfield thing with Bradford also doing one route
Were there ever any Flagship branded routes in Leeds?
Later on, it then was replaced by Gold Service in Halifax and Huddersfield and Sovereign in Bradford. Again Leeds didn't seem to embrace a 'quality' concept much?
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Post by Craig on Mar 25, 2008 19:34:32 GMT 1
Which Bradford route was run under the Flagship banner?
There were definitely no Flagship routes in Leeds. The closest I guess Leeds ever got to a quality brand was the "First Class" brand used on some publicity when the artics were introduced on the 1 and the Royales introduced on the 50/50A, and possibly some others, though this was never really pushed as a full on concept.
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Post by Anthony on Mar 26, 2008 11:29:38 GMT 1
In Bradford, the Clayton route (636/637) was Flagship. This was also the first route chosen to trail a smart card - the predecessor to the First Card.
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Post by nick on Mar 26, 2008 17:41:29 GMT 1
The X84 should be ragarded as flagship. I would imagine that First Leeds regarded the 732/733/736 and 755/655 were the flagship routes along with the 780/X84/784!!
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Post by A1YBG on Mar 26, 2008 20:45:32 GMT 1
Bradford's version was "Soverign"
Think 72 was one of them. The Royales and Wright Flolines were the vehicle for these routes. It was launched when new buses and first interior apeared for the first time. I remember there was comment forms asking what we thought of the services!
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Post by Craig on Mar 26, 2008 23:12:14 GMT 1
Well Flagship was either before or during Badgerline's reign, and then Sovereign was used after FirstBus was created, I think.
I had forgotten about Sovereign, it was used on quite a few Bradford routes if memory serves, certainly I think it included the 72, 681/682 and possibly 622-627.
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Post by westyorkshirebus on Mar 27, 2008 0:16:42 GMT 1
Sovereign started in 1998 on the X6 then the 72, 622-7, 681/2, 612/3, 684/5 but then with the launch of The Overground and the new buses introduced in 2000 was extended to all Overground and low floor operated services
Around the same time there was Gold Service in Halifax on the usual suspects (508, 576) and Quality Service (548/9, 589-595)
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Post by Bradford Traveller on Mar 27, 2008 9:33:38 GMT 1
PROB drifting a bit off topic here...'?
Keighley had the STARBUS network, I think they gave you the fares back if they weren't on time.
Bradford had SOVEREIGN routes where eating on the bus was banned completely.
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Post by jack97 on Mar 27, 2008 10:10:44 GMT 1
didnt the drivers for the SOVEREIGN routes get different uniforms if i remember as i always got the 626 i think the SOVEREIGN services were to go with the machester road guided bus lane that opened around the same time.
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Post by hfx on Mar 28, 2008 17:02:08 GMT 1
I remember Huddersfield Flagship services 350-352. Dennis lances were in some white livery for this.
First Huddersfield Gold services were 340 369 370 371 372 373. These were all operated by Scania Wright Ultra-lows in Rider Huddersfield livery (later B1) and the 10 Dennis Dart SPDs.
More Dennis Darts came and the scanias were moved over to service 363.
Services 340 369 (I don't know what old 373 was), were no longer part of this gold service branding.
Then Red Line brandings appeared on the SPDs. The gold service remained as well!! but was later removed. One SPD still has a patch of red on the left hand offside window.
Services 387 and 382 (in the now stagecoach area) were also treated to a high standard having SPDs and Ex Hong Kong Dennis Dart SLF. The 382 I'm sure was a Gold service even though it was only half-hourly!
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Post by hudds1910 on Feb 8, 2016 20:15:32 GMT 1
I remember 5082?? Leyland Olympian in Huddersfield was also painted in white for Flagship. One of the Dennis Lance numbers was 4001. There was also a Pointer Dart, I think.
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Post by A1YBG on Feb 8, 2016 21:03:37 GMT 1
I remember 5082?? Leyland Olympian in Huddersfield was also painted in white for Flagship. One of the Dennis Lance numbers was 4001. There was also a Pointer Dart, I think. Dart 3201 and also a Mercedes minibus 2205? Along with Northern Counties Olympian 5301. Sent from my D6603 using proboards |
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Post by driver6540 on Feb 8, 2016 22:50:42 GMT 1
I remember 5082?? Leyland Olympian in Huddersfield was also painted in white for Flagship. One of the Dennis Lance numbers was 4001. There was also a Pointer Dart, I think. IIRC Lance 4002 was also in "flagship", seem to recall seeing it and 4001 used quite a bit on 365 Hudds=Oldham. |
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Post by driver6540 on Feb 8, 2016 22:56:24 GMT 1
I've now got it into my head, there was also an Atlantean painted into Flagship at Huddersfield. Can anyone verify?.
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Post by westyorkshirebus on Feb 8, 2016 23:00:17 GMT 1
I've now got it into my head, there was also an Atlantean painted into Flagship at Huddersfield. Can anyone verify?. No there wasn't. 5082 was the only 'old' bus repainted into Flagship, because at the time Huddersfield hadn't any newer double decks and the Lances hadn't arrived yet. |
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Post by driver6540 on Feb 8, 2016 23:12:43 GMT 1
I've now got it into my head, there was also an Atlantean painted into Flagship at Huddersfield. Can anyone verify?. No there wasn't. 5082 was the only 'old' bus repainted into Flagship, because at the time Huddersfield hadn't any newer double decks and the Lances hadn't arrived yet. OK, i guess where i'm getting confused, is the fact that Atlanteans ran on Flagship services with a Flagship sticker on the drivers side window. Correct me if i'm wrong, but Huddersfield's Flagship route's were introduced to combat competition on the Manchester Rd corridor with Bolton based Blue Bus weren't they?. |
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Post by westyorkshirebus on Feb 8, 2016 23:33:04 GMT 1
Yes they were, introduced in 1994 with Alexander Striders, later extending to Golcars and various others. The Badgerline/"Rider" fleet didn't arrive until 1995
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Post by michael1971 on Feb 9, 2016 11:37:57 GMT 1
No there wasn't. 5082 was the only 'old' bus repainted into Flagship, because at the time Huddersfield hadn't any newer double decks and the Lances hadn't arrived yet. OK, i guess where i'm getting confused, is the fact that Atlanteans ran on Flagship services with a Flagship sticker on the drivers side window. Correct me if i'm wrong, but Huddersfield's Flagship route's were introduced to combat competition on the Manchester Rd corridor with Bolton based Blue Bus weren't they?. i remember Atlanteans ran on the 365 after the olys moved depot where 6271/72/73/99/312/313/316 |
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