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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 ...
First York operates local bus services, with a network centring around the cathedral city of York, North Yorkshire, England. It is a subsidiary of FirstGroup , which operates bus, rail and tram services across the United Kingdom and Ireland .
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 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 ...
Service changes at the start of 2024, meant renumbering bus routes in First Halifax, Calder Valley and Huddersfield, including the 503 which was renumbered to 501 with an additional express service launched, X1. As a result, First Halifax decided to route-brand some of their existing fleet vehicles with Elland Lines to represent the Halifax ...
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 ...
This service was the first commercially-run guided bus system to be operated in the United Kingdom, [28] [29] and would eventually be upgraded to use double-decker buses under FirstBus. Having previously operated Ipswich's park and ride service from 2008 until November 2013, in July 2017, First Ipswich resumed operating the service.
[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.