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Post by samba on Jan 22, 2008 19:13:53 GMT 1
does anyone remember old depots in west yorkshire? heres a few that i can sort of remember- hall ings at bradford,otley west yorkshire depot which is still a car garage, the yorkshire rider depot up towards seacroft( cant remember street name) rhodes coaches at yeadon still a car garage, the old transport museum in bradford now a car showroom, the tram shed at saltaire now a restaurant etc please add more detail for me and any others you can think of? ?
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Post by jameyboy06 on Jan 22, 2008 20:11:31 GMT 1
this going way back but where car nation is in bradford that used to be a bus depot
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Post by samba on Jan 22, 2008 20:55:29 GMT 1
this going way back but where car nation is in bradford that used to be a bus depot yeah this is bradfords old transport museum as mentioned before think it was used for early wypte buses in the 80s
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Post by kendall17 on Jan 22, 2008 21:05:32 GMT 1
torre road, where the benfield ford/council depot is!
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Post by Craig on Jan 22, 2008 21:16:21 GMT 1
Also the old MetroBus/YR Headingley and Middleton depots in Leeds.
Not quite buses, but the old tram depot by White Cross in Guiseley has recently been converted into apartments - appropriately enough named Tramways.
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Post by jimbob90 on Jan 23, 2008 17:41:46 GMT 1
Middleton depot is now the CO-OP depot.
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Post by riclam on Jan 23, 2008 20:26:10 GMT 1
former thornbury depot/central works in bradford still there and longroyd bridge in huddersfield
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Post by samba on Jan 23, 2008 21:16:11 GMT 1
torre road cheers just couldnt think of it, bugging me that has
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Post by samba on Jan 23, 2008 21:17:49 GMT 1
does anyone have photos of any old depots?
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Post by simon on Jan 23, 2008 23:58:21 GMT 1
there was a depot at seacroft and soverign street in leeds ,bradford had a depot for wyrcc can t remember what the name of the rd was callled ,huddersfield had leeds rd and wakefield had kinsley.
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Post by Bradford Traveller on Jan 24, 2008 1:58:35 GMT 1
BRADFORD* West Yorkshire at Hammerton st. BCT\METRO\YR at Ludlam st (later MUSEUM) and Thornbury. Duckworth lane, Bankfoot (allowed city circle to finish later than now), Saltaire . btw info on these in the books by Stan Ledgard and Stanley King.
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Post by samba on Feb 1, 2008 10:23:41 GMT 1
does any one have any photos of any old depots please that could be posted or any websites with them on?
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Post by 6u3zr on Feb 2, 2008 21:19:58 GMT 1
Leeds Sovereign Street was really a tram depot - it was next to the Queens Hall and the whole lot is now the car park on the South Side of the station.
The old Leeds City Transport/Metro headquarters were opposite and are now a hotel called Malmaison.
The most amazing - but unremarked - survivor was just behind these on Concordia Street. This had been Leeds City Tramways permanent way yard, but there were still tram tracks inlaid in the setts in places in 1999, 40 years after Leeds' last tram.
There is now a block of flats and a (crap) restaurant on the site.
Not so much depots, but we had the dogs out for a walk on the canal bank near Bingley the other day and came across a "Metro Waterbus" sign!
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Post by 19015 on Feb 22, 2008 0:05:05 GMT 1
Leeds Sovereign Street was really a tram depot - it was next to the Queens Hall and the whole lot is now the car park on the South Side of the station. After the demise of Leeds City Tramways in 1959, the Soverign Street Depot actually became the Queens Hall. I saw 'The Who', 'Otis Redding' and 'Booker T and the MGs' there in the mid 1960s. The Hall was bare except for a stage the audence standing and dancing in the space where the trams had once been parked.
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Post by torre on Jul 24, 2008 11:13:58 GMT 1
Just found this site. and my first post is "you have all forgotten Hunslet garage" found the forum very interesting.
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Post by www.buseireann.ie on Jul 24, 2008 16:13:16 GMT 1
Didn't Soverign Street depot house mini buses for a while when Yorkshire Rider first set up?
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Post by torre on Jul 25, 2008 17:59:53 GMT 1
Yes Sov St was the first garage to run Mini's and I was the guy who was the first Manager. I could write a book about them if my memory served me better.
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Post by busman3 on Jul 26, 2008 16:40:30 GMT 1
Leeds Sovereign Street was really a tram depot - it was next to the Queens Hall and the whole lot is now the car park on the South Side of the station. The old Leeds City Transport/Metro headquarters were opposite and are now a hotel called Malmaison. The most amazing - but unremarked - survivor was just behind these on Concordia Street. This had been Leeds City Tramways permanent way yard, but there were still tram tracks inlaid in the setts in places in 1999, 40 years after Leeds' last tram. There is now a block of flats and a (crap) restaurant on the site. Not so much depots, but we had the dogs out for a walk on the canal bank near Bingley the other day and came across a "Metro Waterbus" sign! Is this the one that was used as an exhibtion hall , in the late 70's/ early 80's we took a PD2 there for a exhibtion was all public transport it included a doncaster trolley bus from sandtoft which was towed there by SYPTE pd2 towing wagon a , sheffield pd2 (3156we) the clevelenad and south yorkshire pte gas buses , st helens open top pd , a then new south yorkshire motors coach and decker plus others I have the photos but they are not digital so i cant use them [img src="[/img] img293.imageshack.us/img293/503/imgroy732qe7.th.jpg"]
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Post by Craig on Jul 30, 2008 20:14:20 GMT 1
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Post by arrivayorks on Oct 15, 2008 18:08:26 GMT 1
There was a depot at frost hill in heckmondwike this is now a carpet warehoude next to the gulf garage and flush snooker club.
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Post by cocker2 on Dec 23, 2015 15:01:27 GMT 1
Yes Sov St was the first garage to run Mini's and I was the guy who was the first Manager. I could write a book about them if my memory served me better. I drove minibuses out of Sovereign Street from October 1987 to April 1989, couldn't wait to move to "big" buses at Bramley!
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Post by timelesstable on Dec 23, 2015 16:27:45 GMT 1
There was a depot at frost hill in heckmondwike this is now a carpet warehoude next to the gulf garage and flush snooker club. The original depot at frost hill was demolished a couple of years ago and replaced by some more modern units
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Post by clifton on Dec 23, 2015 21:17:02 GMT 1
There was a depot at frost hill in heckmondwike this is now a carpet warehoude next to the gulf garage and flush snooker club. The original depot at frost hill was demolished a couple of years ago and replaced by some more modern units I remember when I was at junior school the National Holidays coaches from Frost Hill used to take us to Spen swimming baths!
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Post by clifton on Dec 23, 2015 21:40:37 GMT 1
West Riding had a depot in Featherstone, Wakefield Saville St next to the old bus station & the old South Yorkshire depot at Pontefract.
Yorkshire Woollen had the depot / works at the end of the road from the current Dewsbury depot.
WYRCC had a depot in Ilkley.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2015 21:55:47 GMT 1
Didnt the great northern retail pk in Huddersfield (where sports direct/Homebase is) used to be a depot?
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