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The main operators at the bus station are Arriva Yorkshire, Team Pennine, Stagecoach Yorkshire and National Express coach services also running nationwide from Wakefield. Buses run from the bus station around the Wakefield area and to the nearby towns and cities of Barnsley, Dewsbury, Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield and Holmfirth. The Wakefield ...
Arriva Yorkshire is a major bus operator providing services primarily within and across West Yorkshire, although it also provides service in some parts of South Yorkshire, East Riding of Yorkshire and southern areas of North Yorkshire.
Arriva UK Bus is a major bus operator in the United Kingdom based in Sunderland, England. It is a subsidiary of Arriva which runs transport services across Europe, which was a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn from 2010.
FreeCityBus or FreeTownBus is a family of zero-fare bus services which are operated in the centres of several cities and towns in the English county of West Yorkshire. The services operate as FreeCityBus in the city of Wakefield and as FreeTownBus in the towns of Huddersfield and Dewsbury. The service is run under contract to West Yorkshire Metro.
ArrivaClick is a demand responsive transport service operated by Arriva UK Bus. Passengers book and pay for journeys via a smartphone app, [ 2 ] which then matches passengers traveling between similar points, calculating an ad hoc route to the destinations required.
In 1952, West Riding funded the construction of Wakefield bus station close to the Bull Ring at a cost of £60,000. By the mid-1950s, the company was the largest British operator to be in private hands. In 1967 it was acquired by the Transport Holding Company [3] and became part of the National Bus Company on 1 January 1969.
In February 2013, Arriva UK Bus announced that it would launch a Luxury service under the Sapphire brand for its bus services in the United Kingdom. [1] It is similar to the Stagecoach Gold brand launched by Stagecoach Group in 2007. Arriva initially launched the Sapphire brand on four pilot routes: [2] Arriva Buses Wales' route 1 Wrexham to ...
In January 2013 Tates commenced operating further West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive services radiating from both Wakefield and Dewsbury, again were all previously operated by Arriva Yorkshire. [8] In April 2013 Tates commenced operating the Dewsbury Free Town Bus. [9] In August 2013 Tates took delivery of its first coach. [10]