joseph
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Post by joseph on Apr 12, 2023 20:32:42 GMT 1
Someone I spoke to recently had a faint recollection of a company called Access Express, possibly owned by White Rose Coaches, who operated several short lived wheelchair accessible bus routes throughout West Yorkshire, especially in the Leeds, Wakefield, Kirklees and Castleford areas. Apparently they used a number of converted Leyland Nationals painted red and white, with many routes operating once a day each way. Does anybody remember them and what routes they ran?
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Post by deerfold on Apr 12, 2023 21:05:32 GMT 1
Someone I spoke to recently had a faint recollection of a company called Access Express, possibly owned by White Rose Coaches, who operated several short lived wheelchair accessible bus routes throughout West Yorkshire, especially in the Leeds, Wakefield, Kirklees and Castleford areas. Apparently they used a number of converted Leyland Nationals painted red and white, with many routes operating once a day each way. Does anybody remember them and what routes they ran? I do remember them, and somewhere I've got a timetable. Somewhere... archive.commercialmotor.com/article/25th-october-1990/19/express-deal-castleford-independent-white-rose-coa |
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Post by stephen01 on Apr 12, 2023 21:46:39 GMT 1
Someone I spoke to recently had a faint recollection of a company called Access Express, possibly owned by White Rose Coaches, who operated several short lived wheelchair accessible bus routes throughout West Yorkshire, especially in the Leeds, Wakefield, Kirklees and Castleford areas. Apparently they used a number of converted Leyland Nationals painted red and white, with many routes operating once a day each way. Does anybody remember them and what routes they ran? Believe they were the predecssor for Accessbus as Yorkshire Woollen (or Yorkshire Buses as they'd become by them) ran the Kirklees route which was AX4. |
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Post by deerfold on Apr 12, 2023 22:10:54 GMT 1
Someone I spoke to recently had a faint recollection of a company called Access Express, possibly owned by White Rose Coaches, who operated several short lived wheelchair accessible bus routes throughout West Yorkshire, especially in the Leeds, Wakefield, Kirklees and Castleford areas. Apparently they used a number of converted Leyland Nationals painted red and white, with many routes operating once a day each way. Does anybody remember them and what routes they ran? Believe they were the predecssor for Accessbus as Yorkshire Woollen (or Yorkshire Buses as they'd become by them) ran the Kirklees route which was AX4. Accessbus had been around a long time before the advent of Access Express. |
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Post by roilshead on Jul 17, 2023 18:50:01 GMT 1
According to "Metro Transport News", the services commenced on 01.X.90 and finished on 01.IV.92. The six routes running at the end were:
AX1/AX2 Halifax - Wakefield
AX5 South Elmsall - Wakefield
AX7/AX8 Leeds - Bradford
AX9 Halifax - Leeds - Huddersfield
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Post by deerfold on Jul 17, 2023 22:48:44 GMT 1
I came across one of their buses with middle doors in Trent's Derby bus depot in 1993.
I've no idea what it was doing there (very little at the time and still in White Rose livery).
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