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43-498: The Wharfedale line is one of the rail services in the West Yorkshire Metro area of northern England. The service connects Ilkley with Leeds and Bradford , and is operated by Northern Trains . West Yorkshire Metrocards are available for use on the line, covering Zones 3–5. The line is served predominantly by four-coach Class 333 electric multiple units as well as some three-coach Class 331 EMUs. The line

86-406: A Great Tradition" vehicles and were in those liveries until the late 1990s. Deregulation occurred on 26 October 1986. The WYPTE bus division was renamed Yorkshire Rider and with it a new livery of dark olive green and cream and a stylised "YR" emblem. Five double-decker buses were operated in each of the municipal council's colours (already included were the two Huddersfield buses), with words on

129-713: A decrease in electricity costs, meant that trolleybuses were more economical to operate than motor buses. By 1962 the position had been reversed, so that the Transport Committee voted to replace the trolleybuses by the more flexible motor bus. In March 1961 the trolleybuses on the City to Bradford Moor route were withdrawn, followed by those on the Eccleshill to St. Enoch's Road route in November 1962. In 1967 less than 100 trolleybuses remained in service, and No. 844,

172-694: A line to Great Horton on 27 August 1898. An expansion of the tramway network was prepared by laying more tracks. A comprehensive system could, however, not be developed until the leases of the Bradford Tramways and Omnibus Company and of the Bradford and Shelf Tramway Company expired. The Corporation obtained therefore statutory powers to terminate the Companies leases before their expiry date, and purchased them on 1 February 1902, after which date both tramway companies went into liquidation. Some of

215-562: Is a special rural bus section, which promotes a combination of minor local links and major long-distance routes. 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

258-631: The Aire valley until climbing a hill to: A new station, Kirkstall Forge , opened in 2016 on the Aire Valley section of the route between Leeds and Guiseley. The station at Kirkstall Forge provides a service on the Wharfedale line outside of peak hours only. Plans also exist to reinstate the O&;IJt branch line to Otley from Milner Wood Junction , between Menston and Burley. The first section of

301-619: The Bath Tramways , and bought by Bradford in 1884, presumably for use as a trailer car. An upper deck was fitted, but in 1894, the vehicle was sold again to Cambridge Street Tramways , where it worked as horse tram number 7 until the demise of that system in 1914. It was sold at auction when the system closed, and became a workshop extension to a bungalow in Ely , where it remained until it was bought for preservation by Ipswich Transport Museum . Work began on restoring it in 2012, partly funded by

344-720: The Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway . West Yorkshire Metro Metro is the passenger information brand used by the West Yorkshire Combined Authority in England. It was formed on 1 April 1974 as the West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive ( WYPTE ), at the same time as the metropolitan county of West Yorkshire. The Metro brand has been used from the outset and, since the formal abolition of

387-886: The National Bus Company (NBC) formed a new integrated transport system known as the "Metro-National Transport Company Limited". All PTE and NBC buses began to appear with a new emblem, which consisted of the MetroBus WY's in one box and the NBC "double N" or "N-blem" appearing in another to the right of the PTE emblem, and slightly lower. The boxes were linked to show the integration. They also appeared with MetroBus fleetnames with " The easy way from here to there in West Yorkshire ". The new "Metrobus" fleetname being applied not only to PTE owned vehicles on which WYPTE lettering

430-759: The "Metrocoach" banner, with brown added for "Metrocoach Executive". Later Bingley's depot received double-deckers transferred from the Leeds District. In early 1981 a reorganisation of operating districts was implemented with the East District becoming responsible for the Leeds depots and United Services, whilst the West District took control of Bradford , Halifax , Todmorden and Huddersfield . Three new Leyland National 2s were acquired for United Services, in blue livery. In July 1981, MetroBus and

473-809: The 158 and 321s which were leased to the Northern franchise holder. There are 12 commuter railway lines serving West Yorkshire: Airedale , Calder Valley Line , Dearne Valley , Hallam , Harrogate , Huddersfield , Leeds-Bradford , Penistone , Pontefract , Wakefield , Wharfedale and York & Selby . The majority of these lines run into Leeds and most continue into neighbouring areas, serving towns and cities such as Barnsley , Blackpool , Doncaster , Harrogate , Liverpool , Manchester , Nottingham , Preston , Sheffield and York . Some lines overlap each other, which means that stations such as Castleford, Huddersfield and Wakefield Westgate are served by more than one line. Most lines have frequent services, but

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516-605: The Bradford Corporation Act of 1925, but the use of their buses was initially restricted to the city. The first scheduled bus service of the Corporation started from Lister Park to Bankfoot on 13 May 1926 in deliberate competition with a local operator who ran buses in competition with the tramways. In 1926 bus services started to Bierley and Fagley , in 1927 to Little Horton from Duckworth Lane, to Horton Bank Top from Bankfoot, and to Tong, and after

559-466: The Bradford Corporation Act of 1928 had authorised the operation of Bradford buses outside the city limits, in 1928 to Greengates , Leeds and Tyersal . Motor buses were first used as replacement for tramway services on 16 April 1928 between Undercliffe and Greengates, and by 1935 more tramway routes had been replaced by buses. While investment in the tramway continued in the 1920s, a strike by tramways staff in 1926 had allowed private bus operators into

602-649: The Bradford Corporation had gained parliamentary approval under the Bradford Corporation Tramways Order to construct a tramway system in the city. Construction of the first section of single-line track tram line on Manningham Lane started in September 1881. The finished line ran from Rawson Square in the city centre to Lister Park Gates. Since at that time local councils were not allowed to operate their own tramway system,

645-1018: The Dearne Valley line has a limited service of two trains a day in each direction. In the following list of routes in West Yorkshire, places shown in bold are where services terminate, places shown in italics are stations located outside of West Yorkshire. Operators: Northern , LNER then: or: then continues along Settle-Carlisle Line to: or continues along Leeds-Morecambe Line to: Operators: Northern , Grand Central then: or: then: or: Operator: Northern Operator: Northern Operators: Northern , LNER Operators: Northern , TransPennine Express or: then: then: or: then: or: then: or: Operators: Northern , LNER then: or: Operators: Northern Operators: Northern , Grand Central then: or: Operators: Northern , LNER , CrossCountry Bradford Corporation Tramways#From trolleybuses to motor buses In 1880

688-693: The Executive had to operate within the policy guidelines of the County Council Public Transport Committee, coordinating the operation of all public transport in the county. The Executive inherited approximately 1,500 buses along with 6,000 staff and the associated garages and street furniture. The Executive relinquished ownership of local buses following the Transport Act 1985 , creating arms-length operating companies. It continued to coordinate public transport as

731-431: The PTE acquired the old-established Kinsley based United Services from WR & P Bingley. As well as providing the PTE with more coaching operations, this took it into an area of West Yorkshire where it had previously had no presence. United Services was maintained as a separate subsidiary and retained its distinctive blue livery, whilst a new livery of red & ivory was adopted for the PTE's coaches, which operated under

774-542: The PTEs verona cream and buttermilk livery so as to present a corporate image. From this date the "WY" logo on the front of buses was replaced by the "Metro-National" emblem in mid-1983, to celebrate 100 years of public transport in Huddersfield, MetroBus paint two vehicles in old liveries: Leyland Atlanteans carried Huddersfield Corporation red livery and Huddersfield Corporation Tramways livery. They became "Building on

817-650: The WYPTE on 1 April 2014, it has remained the brand name of public transport in the region, overseen by the West Yorkshire Combined Authority , which is also responsible for the delivery of transport policies. Metro is a public transport brand of the West Yorkshire Combined Authority which is, through its transport committee, the transport authority for West Yorkshire . It replaced the West Yorkshire Integrated Transport Authority on 1 April 2014. The West Yorkshire County Council

860-660: The West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Authority when the metropolitan county was abolished in 1986. New buses were purchased in large numbers at the outset. In 1976 Baddeley Brothers of Holmfirth was purchased providing the PTE with additional coaching and stage-carriage duties. In 1980 the Baddeley Brothers business was also disposed of, although the Metrocoach operation was retained. In 1976 modifications were made to

903-418: The city and highlighted the shortcomings of the tramway system. When worn tramway tracks were due for repair in 1928, a replacement of the tram by trolleybuses was suggested, which was to cost only one quarter of the cost of completely renewing the track. Although the official policy still provided for all three forms of transport in Bradford, plans were already made to replace the tramcars. The Allerton tram line

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946-462: The current My bus contractors were City Travel, First Student UK ( First Calderdale & Huddersfield , First Leeds ), HCT Group , Keighley Bus Company , Rollinson Safeway, Tiger Blue and TLC Travel . As of 2012 the following companies are owned by WYPTE, subject to Metro conditions and ticketing: [REDACTED] Local and inter-urban rail services within West Yorkshire and

989-609: The fact that Bradford used a gauge of 4 ft ( 1,219 mm ) and the Leeds system used the 4 ft  8 + 1 ⁄ 2  in ( 1,435 mm ) standard gauge. Christopher John Spencer was the General Manager at the time, and with his engineer J W Dawson, designed wheel sets where the wheels were mounted on a splined axle, allowing the wheels to move outwards when heading for Leeds, and to move inwards when heading for Bradford. A special length of transition trackwork

1032-542: The last trolleybus to carry fare paying passengers in Bradford, and also the last in Britain, returned to Thornbury depot on Sunday, 26 March 1972, for the last time. Bradford City Transport was absorbed into West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive on 31 March 1974. The first cars of Bradford Corporation Tramways were six horse-drawn open-top 38-seat double-deckers numbered 1 to 6. These were built by Ashbury of Manchester to Eades' reversible patent. The steam engines of

1075-970: The line to Stanningley were built by Kitson of Leeds, and the first trailer cars were converted from the Ashbury-built horse cars. G.F. Milnes & Co. supplied new trailer cars. The first five steam engines of the Bradford and Shelf Tramways Company were built by Thomas Green & Son of Leeds and supplemented by 6 Starbuck -built 58-seat double-deck trailers. 16 Brush -bodied open-top double-deck cars (nos. 1-16) were taken into service in 1898, 8 similar tramcars (nos. 17-24) and four trailer cars (nos. 25-28) were delivered in 1899. The first two trolleybuses were built upon Railless single-deck chassis with Hurst Nelson B28R bodies and numbered 240 and 241. Bradford Corporation eventually decided to have its own vehicles (both tramcars and trolleybuses) built. The first Bradford Corporation tram (No. 210) built on Brush 21E bogies entered service in 1912, and during

1118-538: The line was leased to the Bradford Tramways Company (later the Bradford Tramways and Omnibus Company). The line was opened to the public after a Board of Trade inspection took place on 31 January 1882. The first service ran at 8 am on 2 February 1882. The first additional line opened on 8 August 1882 along Leeds Road to Stanningley and was operated using steam traction because of the gradients involved. A further other radial line, also steam operated,

1161-423: The livery. Originally there were three stripes at the sides of the destination box, which wrapped round to the sides and swept down. This took time to apply, and a trial was made with one thin line. In 1977 the lines were removed and the green area at the skirting of was raised up, so there was slightly more green. The other change was the fleet name to MetroBus in 1976, removing the district names. On 25 April 1977,

1204-565: The new line to the newly formed Bradford and Shelf Tramways Company for 19 years. This lease expired on the same date (31 January 1903) as those of the Bradford Tramways and Omnibus Company. When an 1896 act of Parliament , the Light Railways Act 1896 ( 59 & 60 Vict. c. 48), removed the prohibition on local authorities operating their own tramways, Bradford Council constructed and operated its own electric tramway. On 30 July 1898 an electrified line to Bolton Junction opened, and

1247-416: The next few years over 150 cars were built at the Corporation's Thornbury Works. Between 1913 and 1918, an improved series of single-deck trolleybuses was also built there for the Corporation, and Britain's first top-covered double-deck trolleybus underwent trials in 1920. At least one of the tramway cars built by Starbuck Car and Wagon Company survives. A single deck vehicle was built by Starbuck in 1880 for

1290-570: The route from Bradford Forster Square is also used by the Airedale and Leeds–Bradford lines . The service to Ilkley branches north of Shipley railway station to: The line was electrified throughout using 25 kV AC Overhead between 1994 and 1995 by British Rail . The now-closed and lifted Skipton-Ilkley line continued west of Ilkley via Addingham , Bolton Abbey and Embsay to Skipton . The section from Embsay to Bolton Abbey has been reopened by enthusiasts who operate steam locomotives as

1333-1029: The sides between the decks saying "Building on a Great Tradition". The bus services and fare/bus pass/timetables division was renamed Metro. My bus is a school bus service provided by West Yorkshire Metro with certain features which set it apart from normal school transport services in the United Kingdom : The service, using buses painted yellow with coordinated My bus branding gained significant mode shift: 64% of primary school users were previously driven by car. Under this scheme, these buses were not allowed to be used for non-school purposes. West Yorkshire Metro claims benefits from 'My bus' ranging from reductions in car use, traffic congestion , air pollution , traffic accidents , social exclusion , truancy and late student arrivals and improvements to education , safety for pedestrians and cyclists, integration of people with special needs and children's experiences of public transport . As of August 2009

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1376-497: The steam engines and cars from the former tramway companies were hired until the electric system was fully operational. The horse trams on the Manningham Lane line were retired on 31 January 1902. In 1903 steam services on the former Bradford and Shelf Tramway lines ceased, and the Bradford tramway system became fully electrified. By 1905, there were demands from the public for trams to run between Bradford and Leeds, despite

1419-627: The surrounding areas, part funded by Metro, were advertised under the MetroTrain brand. In the 1990s, some Class 141 , 144 , 155 , 158 , 308 , 321 and 333s were painted in Metro livery. The Class 333 was painted in Metro livery when built. All apart from the 333s were later repainted in Northern Rail livery. Some of the 144s and 155s were originally purchased by the WYPTE but were later sold to Porterbrook . Metro retained ownership of

1462-423: The tram and trolleybus services continued normally. After the war, the remaining tram lines were closed, and the last Bradford tramcar (No. 104) returned to Bankfoot depot for the final time on 6 May 1950. The undertaking changed its name to Bradford City Transport in 1952. The Bradford trolleybus system covered 47 route miles and operated 200 vehicles at its peak. An increased diesel fuel duty in 1952, coupled with

1505-498: Was built to Tong Cemetery, Allerton via Four Lane Ends, and the horse-drawn line was extended from Manningley to Undercliffe. Another new line was constructed in 1884 from the Town Hall Square to Shelf , together with a branch line from Odsal to Wyke . Although the Bradford Tramways and Omnibus Company was offered the operating lease, it did not show sufficient interest. The Corporation therefore invited offers and leased

1548-455: Was carried beneath the fleet name, but also buses of NBC subsidiaries West Yorkshire Road Car Company , West Riding Automobile Company , Yorkshire Woollen Transport Company and Yorkshire Traction , carrying "West Yorkshire", "West Riding", "Yorkshire" and "Yorkshire Traction" names below the Metrobus name. Some years later some of those buses (excluding Yorkshire Traction) were repainted into

1591-472: Was divided into four districts and a new livery of cream and verona green replaced the Bradford light blue & cream, Huddersfield red & cream, Leeds two-tone green and Halifax & Calderdale orange, green & cream. Created following the Local Government Act 1972 ,

1634-626: Was laid in Town Street, Stanningley, and staff from both systems met on the night of 22 January 1907 to test the system, by travelling from Thornbury to Bradford, and then back to Armley. Further trials took place, fares were agreed, and a batch of new variable gauge tramcars were built. The through service began on 7 June 1909, and ran until the middle of the First World War , when maintenance issues resulted in through running being withdrawn. The Mid-Yorkshire Tramway Company of Shipley

1677-976: Was opened between Laisterdyke and Dudley Hill on 20 June 1911. Although R. Wilkinson, the transport department manager around 1920, favoured the trolleybus as a replacement for the tramway, the Transport Committee decided to retain the tramway system. Nevertheless, the trolleybus fleet was increased and modernised over the years, and further trolleybus lines were opened, such as services to Odsal to Oakenshaw (1914), Bolton Woods and Frizinghall (1915), Clayton (1926), Allerton (1929), Saltaire via Thackley (1930), Greengates via Idle (1931), Duckworth Lane (1935), Tong Cemetery (1938), Saltaire, Bingley and Crossflatts (1939), Bradford Moor (1949), Wibsey (1955), Buttershaw (1956) and Holme Wood (1960). After short-lived trials of motor bus services in 1897 and from 1900 to 1902, licenses to operate private motorbuses on 14 services in Bradford were granted on 17 May 1926. The Corporation had obtained similar powers through

1720-635: Was originally owned by the Midland Railway from Leeds to Burley-in-Wharfedale . At this point the line became joint property, with the North Eastern Railway , and was known as the Otley & Ilkley Joint Railway (O&IJt). The two lines from Leeds and Bradford come together at Esholt Junction – the location of an 1892 crash – south of Guiseley . The route from Leeds leaves the main line near Calverley and continues along

1763-405: Was purchased in 1904 and incorporated into the Bradford system. The last extension from Bingley Post Office to Crossflatts was opened in 1914. Where the population of an area was too small to warrant a tramway service, bus services were established. Bradford had given preference to the trolleybus over the motor bus, and after inspection of several European systems, a first trolleybus service

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1806-486: Was replaced by trolleybuses in 1919, causing some older tramcars to be withdrawn. In 1930 the trams on the Thackley and Saltaire route were replaced by trolleybuses, and by 1931 construction of tramcars had ceased. Much of the tram system had closed in 1939, and the remainder was to be abandoned in the following years. The onset of World War II delayed the plans. Motor bus services were affected by restrictions in fuel, while

1849-607: Was the transport authority from 1 April 1974 until 1 April 1986. It was replaced by the West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Authority that was made up of elected councillors from the districts of West Yorkshire. The West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Authority was renamed the West Yorkshire Integrated Transport Authority following the Local Transport Act 2008 . The Metro brand was adopted in 1988. Buses are operated by private companies, with early morning, late evening, Sunday and rural services often supported by Metro. There

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