TJ Walsh Bus Routes

[77syk7]

This has kept me going with some research in these last few days. I have tried to include all known routes run by this former operator with dates if introduction and withdrawal. I am not claiming this to be 100% accurate (but it is at least 95%!) and there maybe one or two omissions. Please feel free to comment, add or amend. I hope it proves to be of some interest to members.

Routes will be listed in order of introduction:-
* 501 Illingworth - Halifax - West Vale (late 80s - 8/2000) - I believe this was their first registered route, only occasional journeys.
* 525 Halifax - Ovenden Circular (6/94-3/20) - ran until closure.
* 555 Halifax - Siddal (9/94-3/20) - ran until closure
* 600 Halifax - Nunnery Lane (11/94-3/20) - incorporated Halifax Town Circ & had ext to Rail Station (11/96 onwards) - service ran until closure.
* 700 Halifax - Illingworth (10/95-3/20) - occ ext to Roundhill (4/99-1/12), ran until closure.
* 400 Halifax - Elland (11/95-12/16) - occ ext to Rosemount Ave (11/97-9/99)
* 100 Halifax - Grove Ave (Ovenden) (7/98-3/00)
* 200 Halifax - Mixenden (Hambleton Est) (9/98-4/00)
* 300 Halifax - Sowerby (4/99-7/17)
* 99 Halifax - Highroad Well Circular (9/99-early 2000) - never seen this route operate, but was circ o via Warley Rd, i via Spring Hall Ln
* E3 Greetland - Elland - Grasmere Drive (7/02-3/20) - ran until closure - diverted via Hullen Edge (7/15)
* E4 Elland - West Vale via Hullen Edge (7/02-1/12)
* E5 Elland - Jagger Green (7/02-3/20) - ran until closure - Surprising this route lasted so long - just 2j M-F am
* E6 Elland - Exley (7/02-4/14) again just 2j M-F pm
* 504 Halifax - Denholme via Bradshaw (9/05-3/20) - ran until closure
* E8 Brighouse - Elland - Barkisland (1/10-7/15)
* E7 Brighouse - Elland - Ripponden via Hullen Edge & Krumlin (1/12-3/20). (7/15) - service reduced to 1j inwards from Greetland M-F am ran until closure
* 257 Brighouse - Rastrick - Elland via Woodhouse (4/14-3/20) - ran until closure
* 258 Brighlose - Rastrick - Elland direct (4/14-3/20) - ran until closure
* E9 Elland - Rosemouint Ave (4/14-7/15) - 2j M-F pm - possibly the shortest route in the county at 0.5m
* 800 Halifax - Raggalds Inn via Bradshaw (1/15-7/16)
* 564 Brighouse - Elland - Barkisland (7/15-3/20) - ran until closure
* 527 Halifax - Roundhill (7/16-3/20) - just 3j M-F. Ran until closure
* 226 Halifax - Norwood Green (10/16-7/17) 2j M-F (1j S)

I also have a 582 Halifax - Rye Lane route which was intro in 2/90 & ran on Saturdays only. However, I never saw a timetable published and never saw a bus running on this route, so cannot include on the list.

[deerfold]

The oddest thing I saw on their routes (possibly on any route) was where the E7, in one direction only, paused at Elland to run another E route circular before continuing as an E7.

[77syk7]

Yes, I remember that strange affair - the journey times were at least 20 minutes longer in one direction than the other!

[576 Gemini 2]

The 564 ran from Elland to Brighouse via Elland Bridge,A6025 Park Road,Cromwell Bottom & Brookfoot until the road was shut due to a landslip near Park Road on 24/2/20. From then until closure I believe this was diverted between Elland & Brighouse via the 257 route. As a point of interest when I moved to Elland until September 2019 there was a Nat Ex service which ran towards Brighouse from Elland via the A6025 around 20.00 which was also numbered 564

[Arriva Wakefield]

Apr 10, 2020 8:56:40 GMT 1 576 Gemini 2 said:

The 564 ran from Elland to Brighouse via Elland Bridge,A6025 Park Road,Cromwell Bottom & Brookfoot until the road was shut due to a landslip near Park Road on 24/2/20. From then until closure I believe this was diverted between Elland & Brighouse via the 257 route. As a point of interest when I moved to Elland until September 2019 there was a Nat Ex service which ran towards Brighouse from Elland via the A6025 around 20.00 which was also numbered 564

564 London - Milton Keynes - Chesterfield - Sheffield - Meadowhall - Dewsbury - Mirfield - Huddersfield - Brighouse - Halifax, then dead back to Huddersfield ready for the 465 ‘Night Car’ to London

465 Huddersfield - Halifax - Bradford - Leeds - Wakefield - Barnsley - Sheffield - Chestefield - Mansfield - Nottingham - Leicester Forest East (refreshment break) - Golders Green - London

The northbound 465 ran dead back to Chesterfield at the end of a 3 day diagram, albeit only around 52 hours long from leaving Chesterfield depot to arriving back.

The diagram was

560 Barnsley - London
564 London - Halifax
465 Huddersfield - London
564 London - Halifax
564 Halifax - London
465 London-Huddersfield