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• MAIN HEADLINES

• Holmfirth Connection Major changes - Holmfirth Connection services operated by First Huddersfield will receive major changes. Services 309, 310 & 311 will be withdrawn, Service 312 will now extend to Parkhead, Service 313 will now operate via Thongsbridge and Holmfirth to Hepworth every 30 minutes, Service 314 will now extend to Holme, Service 316 will now run direct to New Mill and then via Holmfirth to Holme or Parkhead at peak times. A new peak hour service X10 will be introduced operating direct to Holmfirth and Holme. A new X16 will also be introduced running from Parkhead to Huddersfield. All services will have new times. Sheffield Road will only now be served by service 313 in the morning peak. At other times new minibus services H8/H9 operated by Stotts will be introduced operating hourly each way during Monday to Saturday daytimes

• New "MetroLocal" services - New daytime services will be introduced connecting communites to local facilities. TLC Travel will operate services ML1, ML2 & ML3 in the Cleckheaton and Heckmondwike areas. Mount Taxis will operate services ML4, ML5, ML6 & ML8 in the Huddersfield area.

• OTHER CHANGES

• Arriva Yorkshire: Minor changes will be made to services 135, 136, 147, 157, 167, 410 & 430

• First Calderdale: Minor timetable changes will be made to services 526, 528, 534, 546 & 575. Service 832 will now be extended to West End with new times 

• Halifax Joint Committee: Changes will be made to services 34, 392 & X79

• Stagecoach Yorkshire: Service 20 will receive a minor alteration on schooldays

• MAIN HEADLINES

• Otley and Ilkley network changes - First Leeds and First Bradford will be making changes to services in this area from 11th November. Services 960-968 will be altered with revised routes and times. As a result of Bradford Road in Menston reopening services 653 and 731 will revert to their normal routes. Service 33 will now operate to Otley instead of Ilkley in Evenings and Sundays. Service 97A will be withdrawn and all journeys now operating as service 97 which will no longer operate to Bradford on Sundays. New Sunday service 650 is introduced operating between Bradford and Ilkley

• OTHER CHANGES

• Arriva Yorkshire: Minor changes will be made to services 221, 408, 409, 443, 444 & 446. Service 481 will now operate via the John Charles Centre for Sport. Service X41 will now be extended to Leeds General Infirmary

• B L Travel: Revised timetables will be introduced on services 223 & 249

• First Bradford: Route and times changes will be made on services 636, 637, 645 & 670. Service 646 will be withdrawn. Service X6 will have minor times alterations 

• First Leeds: Changes will be made to services 8, 9, 78, 86, 90, 90A, 91 & 91A to improve reliability. From 11th November services 1, 28, 95, 96, 757 & X96 will also have a revised timetable to improve reliability

• Harrogate & District: Service 771 will be withdrawn and replaced by a revised timetable on service 770

• MAIN HEADLINES

• Service 500 enhanced - Service 500 will pass from First Calderdale to Keighley & District and will now operate hourly 7 days a week between Keighley, Oxenhope and Hebden Bridge. The route to/from Todmorden is withdrawn. Service 500 will replace most service 663 journeys which along with services 664 & 665 will receive revised times. Services 79, 727, 728, 729 & SS1 will also have minor changes 

• Stagecoach pulls out of Leeds - Stagecoach Yorkshire will withdraw service X62 between Huddersfield and Leeds replacing it with service 262 journeys between Huddersfield and Dewsbury. Service 231 will no longer serve West Bretton. Also services 46, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84 & 232 will receive minor changes

• M Travel expands - M Travel are extending their new service 183 from Wakefield to Normanton, the service will now extend to Castleford and the Junction 32 complex. Service 134 will also receive a revised timetable

• Service X36 returns - Halifax Joint Committee will be reintroducing express service X36 between Halifax and Huddersfield at peak times. There will also be revised timetables on service 28A, 34, 36, 392 & 509. Service 376 will be withdrawn and service C68 will be reinstated

• Tender reductions in Calderdale - Some tendered services operated by First Halifax will be revised. Services 505, 506 & 588 will be withdrawn completely and there will be withdrawals to one early morning journey on each of services 514, 522, 537, 542 & 576. Service T1 will receive a revised route

• OTHER CHANGES

• Arriva Yorkshire: Revised timetables will be introduced on services 110, 116, 117, 147, 153, 157, 173, 174, 175, 195, 196, 435, 443, 444, 446, 447, 485 & 496. A revised route and timetable will be introduced on services 163, 164 & 165 with service 164 now only running between Leeds and Ledston Luck

• Arriva Yorkshire West: Minor changes will be introduced on services 205, 219 & 221

• First Bradford: Minor changes will be made to services 624, 675, 677, 680 & A99 

• First Huddersfield: Changes will be made to services 363, 370, 371 & 372 to improve reliability. Some peak hour journeys on service 324 will be withdrawn 

• First Leeds: Changes will be made to services 37/37A, 40, 50/50A, 56, 64, 68/68A & 95 to improve reliability. Service 49 will have a revised Sunday timetable, A minor revision will be made to service 31. Service 58 will be withdrawn and be partially replaced by service 92. New off peak service 76 will be introduced

• JRT: Marsden minibus service 937 will be revised with extended hours of operation

• K-Line: Services 234 & 241 will be revised with journeys retimed to operate 10 minutes earlier

• Stringers: Services 499 & 500 will receive revised timetables

• MAIN HEADLINES

• Huddersfield Minibus operator changes - Stagecoach Yorkshire have given up the contracts to minibus services 354, 355, 368, 374 & 375 in Huddersfield. Services 354/355, 374/375 will pass to Stotts Coaches. Service 368 will pass to FairRider.

• First pulls out of Upper Heaton - First Huddersfield are withdrawing their Service 317 to Upper Heaton via Kirkheaton. As a result K-Line will be renumbering their 317A as 317 and becomes the sole operator to this area of Huddersfield. First will however be extending a couple of 371 journeys to Upper Heaton at peak times

• South Yorkshire Motors expands - South Yorkshire Motors are increasing their operations with new service 143 operating between Knottingley and Wakefield via Pontefract. Also service 412 between Pontefract and Doncaster will increase to operate hourly. Service 489 will be withdrawn

• Service changes in the Ryburn Valley - First Halifax are altering their network of services in the Sowerby Bridge and Ripponden areas. Services 560, 561, 566, 577, 579 will be revised. New service 578 will be introduced and service 567 will be withdrawn. Service 528 will have minor changes to the timetable. Elsewhere in Halifax, services 531, 534, 537, 538, 546, 559 & 832 will also have new times

• West Bretton area changes - Due to the closure of Bretton Hall campus, Arriva Yorkshire will be altering their network of services in and around this area. New services 435 & 446 will be introduced with revised services 443, 444, 447 & X41. Services 448, 935 & X44 will be withdrawn
  Changes to services in the Normanton/Featherstone area - Arriva Yorkshire will be making changes to services between Castleford, Pontefract and Wakefield via Normanton and Featherstone.  Services 145, 147/157, 149, 150, 187, 188 will be revised. New service 148 will be introduced. Services 180, 181 & MC2 will be withdrawn

• OTHER CHANGES

• Arriva Yorkshire: Minor changes will be made to services 103, 108, 113, 119, 120, 167, 168, 169, 173, 174, 175, 408, 409, 410, 430, 450 & 476

• Arriva Yorkshire West: Minor changes will be introduced on services 128, 202, 203, 205, 209/219/229, 212, 220/221, 225/X25, 227, 253, 281/283 & 284. Service 129 will be withdrawn

• First Bradford: Services 610, 615, 616, 636 & 637 will have a revised timetable 

• First Leeds: Services 5, 31, 32, 38, 44, 44A, 73, 85, 87, 87A, X11 & X14 will have revised timetables

• Ryburn Taxibus: Service 908 will have a revised timetable 

• Stagecoach Yorkshire: Service 59B will be withdrawn and replaced by extra journeys on service 59

A range of DayTripper services will operate once again during the summer period. Services operating this year are:

Service 950 Leeds - Temple Newsam - Garforth - Lotherton Hall - Ledsham - Fairburn Ings - Castleford, Operates Tuesdays to Saturdays and Bank Holiday Monday

Service 956 Huddersfield - Lepton - National Coal Mining Museum - Yorkshire Sculpture Park - Cannon Hall, Operates Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays

Service 957 Holmfirth - Grange Moor - National Coal Mining Museum - Dewsbury - Batley - Bagshaw & Red House Musuems - Oakwell Hall, Operates Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays and Bank Holiday Monday

Service 812 Haworth Station - Bronte Parsonage - Stanbury - Ponden Mill, This summer service is reintroduced and will run every sunday and Bank Holiday Monday until 27th August with new times

• SERVICES WITHDRAWN

• Service 58 - Replaced by services 59, 59A & 59B

• Service 211 - Replaced between Barnsley and South Elmsall only by new services 36/36A

• Service 233 - Infrequent service not replaced

• Services 235/236 - Replaced between Huddersfield and Clayton West/Denby Dale only by new services 80/81/82. Service 82 will connect with trains to Barnsley at Denby Dale Interchange

• Services 237/239 - Replaced by new services 83/84

• Services 238/240/938 - Replaced by new services 80/81/82

• Services 244/245 - Replaced by new service 35

• Services 246/247 - Replaced by new services 46/47

• Services 248/249 - Partially replaced by new services 36, 46, 47

• NEW SERVICES

• Service 35 Barnsley - Shafton - Hemsworth - Ackworth - Pontefract (every 30 minutes M-S, Hourly E&S)

• Service 36 Barnsley -  Grimethorpe - South Elmsall (hourly Mon-Sat daytimes)

• Service 36A Barnsley -  Grimethorpe - South Elmsall/Milnsthorpe (hourly Evenings and Sundays)

• Services 46/47 Barnsley - Hemsworth - South Elmsall - Upton - Pontefract (every 30 minutes M-S, Hourly [46] E&S)

• Services 59/59A Barnsley - Royston - Newmillerdam - Wakefield (hourly [59] M-S, Hourly [59A] E&S)

• Service 59B Barnsley - Royston - Woolley Village - Newmillerdam - Wakefield (One Peak time journey only)

• Service 80 Huddersfield - Lepton - Kirkburton - Skelmanthorpe - Scissett - Clayton West (Hourly M-S, No Service E&S)

• Service 81 Huddersfield - Highburton -  Kirkburton - Skelmanthorpe - Scissett - Clayton West (Hourly M-S, Every 2 Hours E&S)

• Service 82 Huddersfield - Kirkburton - Skelmanthorpe - Gilthwaites Estate - Denby Dale (Hourly M-S, Every 2 Hours E&S)

• Service 83 Huddersfield - Highburton - Kirkburton - Shepley - Upper Denby - Denby Dale (Hourly M-S, No Service E&S)

• Service 84 Huddersfield - Penistone Road - Shepley - Upper/Lower Cumberworth - Denby Dale (Hourly M-S, No Service E&S)

• OTHER CHANGES

• Service 20 Barnsley - Penistone - Huddersfield - The 1715 from Barnsley now runs 5 minutes later

• Service 33 Barnsley - South Hiendley - A revised timetable will be introduced

• Service 262 Huddersfield - Dewsbury - A minor early morning timetable change

• MAIN HEADLINES

• New Wakefield FreeCityBus - A new FreeCityBus will be introduced in Wakefield. The service will link Westgate and Kirkgate rail stations, the bus station and the town centre and shopping areas. It will be run by Star Travel.

• Major changes in the West Wakefield and Ossett area - Arriva Yorkshire will be making changes to services in the West Wakefield and Ossett areas. There will be revised timetables and routes on services 100, 101, 103, 104, 113, 114, 116, 117, 119, 120, 129, X6 & X16. Services 105/6/7, X17 will be withdrawn and new services 115 & 118 will be introduced

• Major changes to services in the Castleford/Pontefract area - Arriva Yorkshire will be making changes to services between Castleford, Pontefract and Knottingley to Leeds, Wakefield, Selby, Doncaster, Featherstone and Normanton. This effects services 135, 136, 137, 145, 147, 149, 150, 152, 153, 156, 159, 163, 164, 166, 167, 168, 177, 180, 181, 184, 185, 189, 410, 430, 476. New services 408/9 will be introduced. Services 411, 414 & 420 will be withdrawn. There will also be a new service 450 providing a new link from Wakefield to Selby

• A simpler Keighley to Skipton service - Services between these two towns will be simplified by Keighley and District effecting services 65, 66/66A/66C, 67/67A and 68/68A/68C, many route variations and therefore service numbers will no longer be used. There will also be changes to services 78A, 79, 80, 662, 663/4/5, 696/8, 717, 720 & 762/5 in the Keighley area

• OTHER CHANGES

• Arriva Yorkshire: A minor change will be made to services 102, 108, 110, 231, 425, 427, 481, 980, A revised timetable will be introduced on services 195/6, 485, 496/8 with service 197 withdrawn, Weekend journeys on service MC2 will be withdrawn

• Arriva Yorkshire Selby: A revised timetable will be introduced on services 402/3, 412/3 and 492/3

• Arriva Yorkshire West: A minor change will be made to the timetables of services 220 and 227

• First Bradford: Services 610-2, 613/4, 619, 657/8, 679, 680, 737, 810, 846, 896, 963, 967, A99 will receive revised timetables. New service 656 will be introduced 

• First Leeds: Services 2, 2B, 3/3A, 12, 13/13A, 22B, 35, 40, 45, 47, 49, 50/50A, New 58, 60, 61, 62, 71, 88, 96/X96, 97/97A, 960/1/2/4, X35, X98 will receive a revised timetable. New service 58 will be introduced 

• First Halifax and Huddersfield: Services 305, 327, 342, 363, 526, E & T1 will receive a revised timetable. New service 358 will be introduced 

• Halifax Joint Committee: Service 995 will now finish at 1430 meaning service X79 will now run 2 and a half hours earlier 

• Harrogate and District: Service 36 will have a revised timetable 

• TLC Travel: Revised timetables will be introduced on services 940/1/2/3/6

• New "Cravenlink" services 784/884 operating between Ilkley and Skipton on Sundays operated by Jacksons of Silsden
• Service 802 will this year start in Wakefield rather than Leeds and operate to Leyburn and then to Richmond rather than Hawes. Due to funding cuts will now only run on selected Sundays rather than every Sunday
• Service 803 will this year start in Wakefield rather than Leeds. Due to funding cuts will now only run on selected Sundays rather than every Sunday. Combined with service 802 the services will alternate every week and therefore combined will run every Sunday and Bank Holiday from 6th May to 26th August 2007
• The Dales Experience bus 806 from Huddersfield and Bradford will not run this year but instead service 814 will run more often, providing 6 journeys in total

Monday to Friday Services

All Year: 74 (Ilkley - Bolton Abbey - Grassington) Pride of the Dales

Saturday Services

All Year: 74 (Ilkley - Bolton Abbey - Grassington) Pride of the Dales
7th April until 29th September & 20th/27th October 2007: 809 (Ilkley - Skipton - Settle - Malham) Jacksons of Silsden

Sunday Services

All Year: 
66A (Keighley - Skipton - Grassington) Keighley & District
805 (Wakefield - Leeds - Otley - Ilkley - Grassington - Hawes) Arriva Yorkshire

22nd April until 28th October 2007: 784 (Ilkley - Addingham - Draughton - Skipton) / 884 (Ilkley - Addingham - Bolton Abbey - Embsay - Skipton) Jacksons of Silsden
8th April until 30th September 2007: 800 (Leeds - Ilkley - Bolton Abbey - Grassington - Hawes) Arriva Yorkshire
8th April until 30th September & 21st/28th Oct 2007: 809 (Ilkley - Skipton - Settle - Malham) Jacksons of Silsden

7th, 20th, 28th May, 10th, 24th June, 8th, 22nd July, 12th, 19th August 2007: 802 (Wakefield - Leeds - Otley - Pateley Bridge - Ripon - Leyburn - Hawes) Arriva Yorkshire
6th, 13th, 27th May, 3rd, 17th June, 1st, 15th, 29th July, 5th, 26th August 2007: 803 (Leeds - Harrogate - Ripon - Leyburn - Hawes) Arriva Yorkshire
20th May, 24th June, 8th July, 5th August, 9th September, 7th October 2007: 814 (Huddersfield - Brighouse - Bradford - Keighley - Skipton - Malham) Arriva Yorkshire

Service 900 Huddersfield - Ripponden - Hebden Bridge, The summer sunday service is introduced, this year the service will extend to Oxenhope with new times

Service 906 Hardcastle Crags - Hebden Bridge - Heptonstall - Widdop Reservoir, The summer sunday service is introduced with no changes from last year

Service 63A Leeds - East End Park - Temple Newsam, The summer sunday timetable is introduced with buses extended to Temple Newsam

Stainland Road between the Calder & Hebble junction and West Vale will be closed in the from Halifax direction for at least a year. This will mean that bus services will be diverted, some will omit West Vale completely and some operate via a revised route. Routes of services in the to Halifax direction are uneffected 

• Services 225, 278, 570 & X25 - Will operate via Elland Wood Bottom, Elland Bridge & Briggate to Elland Huddersfield Road, omitting West Vale

• Service 343 - Will now only operate between Huddersfield and Barkisland. New daytime journeys between Halifax and Barkisland on service 556 will be introduced

• Service 400 - Will operate a circular route via Elland Wood Bottom, Calderdale Way, Elland Riorges Link, Southgate, Victoria Road and then as normal serving West Vale on the journey back towards Halifax

• Services 501/503 (Evenings and Sundays) - Will operate via Elland Wood Bottom, Calderdale Way, Elland Riorges Link, Briggate & Saddleworth Road to West Vale, then via normal route to Elland Huddersfield Road and then via Huddersfield Road to Ainley Top.

• Service 503 (Monday to Saturday daytime) - Will operate via Elland Wood Bottom, Calderdale Way & Elland Riorges Link to Elland Huddersfield Road and then via Huddersfield Road to Ainley Top. Omitting West Vale

• Service 538 (one evening journey only), 539, 556, 557, 559 - Will operate via Elland Wood Bottom, Elland Bridge & Saddleworth Road to West Vale

• New Shuttle Service W1 - This will be operated every 15 minutes Monday to Saturday daytimes by First and will provide a link from West Vale to Elland. Passengers can then transfer onto services 225, 278, 503, 570 & X25

New timetables will be introduced on all these services

• MAIN HEADLINES

• Service X33 Withdrawn - Arriva Yorkshire will be withdrawing service X33 between Bradford and Sheffield. Various other services and the rail service cover various sections of the route

• Major changes in the Heavy Woollen area - Arriva Yorkshire will be yet again making major changes to its services in the Heckmondwike and Dewsbury areas. Services 207, 208, 215, 224, 226, X24 & X33 will be withdrawn, service 225 will be reduced to operate every 2 hours only and only between Halifax and Cleckheaton, Service 227 will now operate daily, Service 128 receives a new route and timetable. Service 254 will now operate every 12 minutes between Leeds and Cleckheaton (every 15 mins on Saturdays) will two journeys per hour continuing to Dewsbury and one of those continuing to Wakefield replacing the short journeys on service 278. New service 255 will be introduced operating hourly between Cleckheaton and Leeds via Hunsworth. Service 268 will be increased to operate every 12 minutes on Monday to Friday daytimes. Services 281 & 283 will also receive new routes and frequencies, Services 202/203, 205, 209/219/229, 220/221, 253, 256, 278, 284 & X25 will also receive a new timetable. Minor changes will also be made to services 212 & 213. 

• New operator on Rural Line 900 - Service 900 will pass from First Huddersfield to K-Line and will receive a revised timetable. The summer sunday service will also be extended to Oxenhope

• OTHER CHANGES

• Arriva Yorkshire (Wakefield): A revised timetable will be introduced on services 119, 120, 265, 496 & 498

• B Line Travel: A revised timetable will be introduced on services 123 & 244

• First Bradford: Services 622, 623, 625, 626, 627 & 747 will receive a revised timetable to improve reliability. Services 653 & 670 will also have minor changes

• First Halifax and Huddersfield: Service changes on services 301, 302, 309-316, 321, 324, 325, 343, 380 & 381. Service 323 is new and service 520 is withdrawn

• First Leeds: Minor timetable changes will be made to services 1, 4ftr, 16/16A, 33/33A, 42, 85, 87, 90. There will also be changes to services 51/51A, 67, 92, 95, 97/97A & X84. Service 54 will be withdrawn

• M Travel: Service 134 will be increased to operate every 30 minutes during Saturday daytimes

• Stagecoach Yorkshire: Service 20 will now serve Peel Street in Huddersfield Town Centre and service 211 will receive minor timetable changes

• TLC Travel: Service MC3 will be rerouted to better serve the community and will receive a new timetable