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Riley & Hawkridge of Wetherby are thought to have run the first service from York to Scarborough with service starting prior to the mid-1920s. [8] The first buses to run from Leeds to Bridlington began service in 1930, jointly operated by the West Yorkshire Road Car Company and East Yorkshire Motor Services. [8]
The route was launched at Thirsk Row, off Wellington Street on 20 June 1911. The first of two buses to set off on the first official run was driven by the Lord Mayor, William Middlebrook, and the second by his deputy, Frederick James Kitson. Both buses went on a round trip to Farnley, four miles from Leeds, returning 45 minutes later. [5] [6]
Buses in Doncaster were based at two garages in the borough. The main depot was the former Doncaster Corporation garage on Leicester Avenue, close to Doncaster Racecourse, where an experimental trolleybus had been previously trialled before deregulation. [21] A second, smaller garage was located on Bootham Lane in Dunscroft. [citation needed]
From the 1974 formation of the South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive, which took over the Sheffield, Rotherham and Doncaster municipal bus operations until the mid-1990s, the operating area of South Yorkshire was split between South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive and Yorkshire Traction with the former dominating Sheffield and ...
Travel South Yorkshire operate nine bus interchanges [9] and several smaller stations, many of which have been newly built or refurbished in the early 2000s. These bus interchanges provide a hub for local, regional and sometimes national bus and coach services, and in some locations also provide an interchange facility onto tram and rail services.
Following the First South Yorkshire and Midlands merger in 2020, new liveries and brands were introduced for the First Sheffield and First Doncaster fleets. The first to be introduced was Doncaster's Clever Buses in August 2020, utilising eight acquired Volvo B7RLE Wright Eclipse Urban buses on the 66 route in Doncaster, with the 'clever ...
On 1 April 1974, the West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive was created by merging the municipal bus fleets of Bradford City Transport, Leeds City Transport, Huddersfield Corporation Passenger Transport and Halifax Joint Omnibus Committee, which earlier in the 1970s swallowed up Todmorden Joint Omnibus Committee. The operation was divided ...
In 1987 West Riding Automobile and Yorkshire Woollen District were sold in a management buyout to Caldaire, under whose ownership they traded as West Riding Buses and Yorkshire Buses respectively. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In 1994 South Yorkshire Road Transport, based in Pontefract , was purchased. [ 1 ]