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The summer-season X43 express route follows a similar route to the 843, but only calls at Seacroft Green and regular Coastliner bus stops in the areas of York and Malton. [ 24 ] Historically, there was a route 842 which ran from Leeds to Thornton-le-Dale, [ 32 ] and a route 844 which ran from Leeds to York, [ 33 ] however both of these routes ...
The operations of First York and First West Yorkshire were remerged into a First North and West Yorkshire business unit on 1 October 2022, as part of major changes to the FirstGroup's senior management, which saw the merger of First's ten regional bus operations across the United Kingdom into six business units.
In December 2024, rival operator Reliance announced that all four of their public service routes (30, 31X, 40 and 74), as well as two school routes, will be sold to and taken over by Transdev on 19 January 2025. Eleven buses were also included in the sale. The buses and routes subsequently began operation with Transdev under the York & Country ...
The operations of First West Yorkshire and First York are to be remerged into a First North and West Yorkshire business unit on 1 October 2022, with current Managing Director Paul Matthews temporarily overseeing operations of the new business unit until a new Managing Director can be recruited. This is part of major changes to the FirstGroup's ...
First York Wright StreetCar at York station in October 2010. FTR first operated in York with the conversion of First York's route 4 between Acomb and the University of York. The service began on 8 May 2006, after the city council had made significant and expensive alterations to the road layout to accommodate the new vehicles. [9] [10] The York ...
[3] [4] In 1994 South Yorkshire Road Transport, based in Pontefract, was purchased. [1] The four companies were taken over by British Bus in 1995 which itself was purchased by Cowie Group in August 1996. [1] [5] [6] All were rebranded under the Arriva brand in 1997. From May 2008 until July 2021, there was a sister company in Huddersfield.
Although there were fewer than 600 vehicles, four-digit numbers were used: the last three digits uniquely identified the vehicle, whilst the first digit indicated the fleet (1 for the main fleet, 2 for Keighley-West Yorkshire and 3 for York-West Yorkshire). Thus, the first batch of Leyland National buses were numbered 1411–1423, 2425–2429 ...
In 1998, FirstBus purchased the remaining 80% shareholding and renamed the business First Mainline. [8] [9] Buses were repainted in a simplified red and yellow livery, reminiscent of the original 1989 Sheffield Mainline livery. In 2000 First Mainline was rebranded as First South Yorkshire and the corporate light grey, blue and pink livery ...