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A number of local bus services operate under this brand, including services 62 (Ilkley and Keighley), 67 (Bradford and Keighley) and 72 (Grassington and Skipton). The two-tone green livery is also used as a base for other brands, including Brontë Bus and Keighley Jets.
Buses run from the bus station around the town of Keighley. They also run as far afield as Burnley (extending to Padiham and Accrington until 2011), Skipton (extending to Grassington until 2011), Ilkley (extended to Otley and Leeds Bradford Airport in 2016), Leeds (extending to Wetherby from 1993 to 1997), Bradford and Hebden Bridge (previously Todmorden until 2007).
Long Lee and Thwaites Brow are served by the Keighley Bus Company bus route K5 which connects the area with Keighley Bus Station which runs at least once an hour in both directions 7 days a week. Long Lee lies on the busy but unclassified road from Keighley to Harden which forms part of an alternative route to Bradford .
It is 2 + 3 ⁄ 4 miles (4.4 km) north of Bradford Forster Square and 10 + 3 ⁄ 4 miles (17.3 km) north-west of Leeds. Train services are mostly commuter services between Leeds and Bradford, the Airedale line (Leeds and Bradford to Skipton, via Keighley), and the Wharfedale Line (Leeds and Bradford to Ilkley).
In the 1930s joint arrangements with Keighley Corporation and York City Council resulted in the formation of Keighley-West Yorkshire and York-West Yorkshire. In 1948, the Tilling Group sold its bus interests to the government. West Yorkshire therefore became a state-owned company, under the control of the British Transport Commission. [2]
Ben Rhydding railway station serves the Ben Rhydding area of Ilkley, West Yorkshire; it is situated about a mile east of the town centre.It is on the Wharfedale Line, between Ilkley and Leeds/Bradford Forster Square, it is served by Class 331 and Class 333 electric multiple units (EMUs) run by Northern Trains, who also manage the station.
The bus stop on the station forecourt is regularly served by Connexionsbuses 962 to Otley and Ilkley [6] and their 963 to and from Otley & Garnett Wharfe. [7] [8] TLC Travel operate the 635 between Pool, Otley, Shipley and Bradford once a day, both outward and return journeys serve the station forecourt. [9]
The service is operated by Northern, on the route connecting Leeds and Bradford with Skipton. Some services along the line continue to Morecambe or Carlisle. The route covered by the service was historically part of the Midland Railway. According to SELRAP, the Airedale line is the most heavily used passenger route outside the South East of ...