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Post by kayden11 on Apr 22, 2024 19:46:30 GMT 1
Yes thats correct there was a bl travel.that did the 223 224 wakefield to south elmsall, and b line travel that used to do the 122 and 123 to grimethorpe, bl was the ones that tried running in competition with arriva on the 496 I don't think b line was the competition I could be wrong but I do remember the 122 and 123 services definitely, I think they used to stop.outside the bus station on union Street in wakefield as well
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Post by kayden11 on Apr 22, 2024 19:47:40 GMT 1
B line travel had all sort of different coloured vehicles too I remember they used to do 52 from Ryhill to barnsley too
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Post by rodneytrotter on Apr 22, 2024 19:48:49 GMT 1
I quite liked BL Travel, their Metrocity and Versa, always looked in great condition and very nice to travel on. I thought they was a nice firm
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Post by shelf81 on Apr 22, 2024 20:27:37 GMT 1
Doncaster to York was another service back in the 1950s, basically the 405 and 415 combined together. Didn't that run alongside the 401-3 services from Leeds, what operated as a very indirect service from Leeds to York Via Selby or did they come along later?
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Post by kayden11 on Apr 22, 2024 20:31:13 GMT 1
Tbh their versa is still in service it got transferred to watersons and still in use its a 62 plate can't remember the reg, don't know what happened to the metrocity though
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Post by rodneytrotter on Apr 22, 2024 20:34:51 GMT 1
Doncaster to York was another service back in the 1950s, basically the 405 and 415 combined together. Didn't that run alongside the 401-3 services from Leeds, what operated as a very indirect service from Leeds to York Via Selby or did they come along later? Think they might have come along later. I'm looking at a 1958 timetable here, there was 2 buses an hour from Leeds to Goole, one went via Cas like I mentioned, and the other went via the 164 route to Selby and the same route as the other from Selby to Goole. This route number was 153. I couldn't see a Leeds to York service here. Also back in 1958, there was an Airedale to Doncaster service, and I do mean Airedale in Castleford
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Post by rodneytrotter on Apr 22, 2024 20:35:13 GMT 1
Tbh their versa is still in service it got transferred to watersons and still in use its a 62 plate can't remember the reg, don't know what happened to the metrocity though Went to Ross Travel im pretty sure the Metrocity
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Post by rodneytrotter on Apr 22, 2024 20:46:34 GMT 1
X35: Leeds-Rotherham-Mexborough X36: Leeds-Barnsley-Rotherham-Mexborough
During the summer in the 1970s, there was a Hemsworth to Scarborough service.
Went Hemsworth-Ackworth-Featherstone-Normanton-Whitwood-Allerton Bywater-Castleford-Pontefract-Knottingley-Selby-Bridlington-Filey-Scarborough.
Took about 4 hours
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Post by stephen01 on Apr 22, 2024 21:50:33 GMT 1
Tbh their versa is still in service it got transferred to watersons and still in use its a 62 plate can't remember the reg, don't know what happened to the metrocity though Went to Ross Travel im pretty sure the Metrocity the 12 plate Versa went back to Ross Travel. The Metrocity was on tick so went back to the hire company.
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Post by kayden11 on Apr 22, 2024 23:32:40 GMT 1
That's correct it did I know there is a blue one at watersons I thought that was the versa in question I know it's a 62 plate and in the same blue as bl used to be
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Post by kayden11 on Apr 22, 2024 23:33:44 GMT 1
497, 498 wakefield doncaster via Hooton pagnell
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Post by kayden11 on Apr 22, 2024 23:35:06 GMT 1
I think used to be 177, 178 and 179 ponte to cas but can't remember their routes
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Post by rodneytrotter on Apr 23, 2024 14:32:33 GMT 1
Also a Leeds to Royston service back in the mid 1950s as well!
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Post by martinsfp on Apr 23, 2024 14:40:31 GMT 1
There was a Thornton to Shipley service in the 80s/very early 90s, not serving Bradford city centre. There aren’t many radial services in Bradford because the city’s layout isn’t really suited to them. I remember this one starting at the top of West Lane in Thornton and serving parts of the village and Fairweather Green that haven’t seen a bus service before or since.
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Post by stephen01 on Apr 23, 2024 19:45:16 GMT 1
That's correct it did I know there is a blue one at watersons I thought that was the versa in question I know it's a 62 plate and in the same blue as bl used to be the 62 plate is still there bit it's knackered.
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Post by mk2mcw on Apr 23, 2024 19:57:50 GMT 1
The 20 and 21 were Arrivas version of Taylor’s 21C route when they took them over and extended them from Middleton to Wakefield they interworked with the 52B and all were rerouted via infirmary street and the headrow they didn’t last long at all I remember Arriva running the 20 and 21 running via Chapeltown Road and Roundhay Road with Arriva ALX200 Darts - ( may have been the odd ALX300 on there too ) For a brief time around 2000 or 2001 I think. Was strange. They actually started the route with lynxes and a pointer dart then changed to the ALX300s the route was slow to take off then they got busy just before they were axed arriva didn’t give them enough time to take off
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Post by mk2mcw on Apr 23, 2024 19:58:35 GMT 1
Also a Leeds to Royston service back in the mid 1950s as well! the 446 and 447 went through Royston in the 90s too
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Post by mk2mcw on Apr 23, 2024 20:03:27 GMT 1
B line travel had all sort of different coloured vehicles too I remember they used to do 52 from Ryhill to barnsley too the 52 was taken over from tracky when it was numbered 242 there was also a 243 to havercroft b line first operated the route on evenings and Sundays
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Post by mk2mcw on Apr 23, 2024 20:05:05 GMT 1
Anybody remember the X3 Leeds-easington and X5 Leeds-bishop Auckland buses on Saturdays run by united then by arriva
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Post by Burnside on Apr 24, 2024 13:00:37 GMT 1
There was a Thornton to Shipley service in the 80s/very early 90s, not serving Bradford city centre. There aren’t many radial services in Bradford because the city’s layout isn’t really suited to them. I remember this one starting at the top of West Lane in Thornton and serving parts of the village and Fairweather Green that haven’t seen a bus service before or since. Was a MicroRider service, I think. There was also a 674 from Shipley to Moorhead Lane via Avondale Road, that might have been earlier as I think it was a WYRCC Hoppa bus.
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Post by Bradford Traveller on Apr 24, 2024 14:14:44 GMT 1
There was a 674 from Shipley to Moorhead Lane via Avondale Road, which might have been earlier as I think it was a WYRCC Hoppa bus. I don't remember the 674. It sounds like a forerunner of the present 678 Shipley–Cottingley. Incidentally, "Shipley Moorhead" was on BCT destination blinds as long ago as 1967, but never used...
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Post by Bradford Traveller on Apr 24, 2024 14:31:56 GMT 1
There was a Thornton to Shipley service in the 80s/very early 90s, not serving Bradford city centre. There aren’t many radial services in Bradford because the city’s layout isn’t really suited to them. I remember this one starting at the top of West Lane in Thornton and serving parts of the village and Fairweather Green that haven’t seen a bus service before or since. May have been route 627 (there was also a hospital route 628). It also served various back roads in Heaton and Shipley. It ran mornings only and seemed to be specially designed to avoid any commercial routes or busy stops rather than serving minor roads. So it served West Lane, Leaventhorpe Lane, Middlebrook Estate, Rhodesway ?, Wheatlands Drive ?, Parsons Road, Hilton Road?, Norwood Avenue? and Manor Lane.
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Post by stantheman on May 12, 2024 14:26:43 GMT 1
There was a Thornton to Shipley service in the 80s/very early 90s, not serving Bradford city centre. There aren’t many radial services in Bradford because the city’s layout isn’t really suited to them. I remember this one starting at the top of West Lane in Thornton and serving parts of the village and Fairweather Green that haven’t seen a bus service before or since. May have been route 627 (there was also a hospital route 628). It also served various back roads in Heaton and Shipley. It ran mornings only and seemed to be specially designed to avoid any commercial routes or busy stops rather than serving minor roads. So it served West Lane, Leaventhorpe Lane, Middlebrook Estate, Rhodesway ?, Wheatlands Drive ?, Parsons Road, Hilton Road?, Norwood Avenue? and Manor Lane. I don’t remember any buses ever serving Rhodesway at all? Only school buses ran on there to the old St Edmund Campion school.
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Post by Bradford Traveller on May 12, 2024 14:46:14 GMT 1
May have been route 627 (there was also a hospital route 628). It also served various back roads in Heaton and Shipley. It ran mornings only and seemed to be specially designed to avoid any commercial routes or busy stops and only served minor roads. So it served West Lane, Leaventhorpe Lane, Middlebrook Estate, Rhodesway ?, Squire Lane? Wheatlands Drive ?, Parsons Road, Hilton Road?, Norwood Avenue? and Manor Lane. I don’t remember any buses ever serving Rhodesway at all? Only school buses ran on there to the old St Edmund Campion school. Actually, there were other routes serving Rhodesway. Early 1970s, route 628 ran Thornton – BRI – Bradford two trips daily around afternoon and evening visiting times (but handy for coming back from school and going to the pub later on... 😀). In the early 1980s, nightrider N4 Bradford – Thornton ran via Manningham Lane, Sandy Lane, Allerton Village, Rhodesway, and Thornton Road.
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