Halifax bus station

Halifax
Location
Locale Wade Street, Halifax
Local authority Calderdale
Operation
Opened 1989
Managed by Metro
No. of stands 20
Operators First West Yorkshire, Arriva Yorkshire, Halifax Joint Committee, Centrebus Holdings, TJ Walsh
Travel centre Yes
Rail connection Halifax 600 metres away

Halifax bus station serves the town of Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. The bus station is owned and managed by Metro (WYPTE). The bus station was opened in 1989 and is made of up 4 large islands (A, B, C and D) with 20 stands in total. The bus station is situated in the Halifax Town Centre and could be accessed from Northgate and Wade Street. Several services, such as the majority of services to Illingworth and Mixenden plus some Halifax Joint Committee and TJ Walsh services do not serve the bus station and use stops in the town centre.[1]

Services

The main operators that use the station are First West Yorkshire, Arriva Yorkshire, Halifax Joint Committee, TJ Walsh and Centrebus Holdings, who operate as Huddersfield Bus Company, K-Line and Centrebus.

Buses run from the bus station to several destinations in the Calderdale area, such as Barkisland, Bradshaw, Brighouse, Copley, Elland, Greetland, Hebden Bridge, Illingworth, Mixenden, Northowram, Ripponden, Rishworth, Southowram, Sowerby Bridge, Sowerby, Stainland, Todmorden and West Vale. Buses also travel to destinations outside the local area, reaching Bradford, Burnley, Dewsbury, Huddersfield, Keighley, Leeds, Rochdale, Wakefield and White Rose Centre.

The bus services that use Halifax Bus Station and its Stand Letter are[2]: (Places in bold are where services terminate)

No. Operator Route Stand
Monday to Saturday daytime Evenings and Sundays
36 Centrebus Rye Lane via Pellon C3 Service 535
226 First West Yorkshire Norwood Green via Hipperholme D11 -
255 Arriva Yorkshire Leeds City Bus Station via Wyke, Scholes and Cleckheaton B4
278 Arriva Yorkshire Wakefield via Elland, Brighouse, Mirfield and Dewsbury A1
343 K-Line Huddersfield via Greetland, Elland, Blackley and Lindley B4 Services 501, 557, 559
392 Halifax Joint Committee Hebden Bridge via Luddenden Foot C23 Services 590, 592, 594
501 First West Yorkshire Huddersfield via West Vale, Elland and Lindley Services 343, 503 B1
502 First West Yorkshire Keighley via Denholme and Cullingworth C34 C35
503 First West Yorkshire Huddersfield via West Vale, Elland and Ainley Top B1
504 TJ Walsh Denholme via Bradshaw A6 Service 502
505 First West Yorkshire Four Lane Ends (Bradford) via Illingworth and Thornton C36 -
508 First West Yorkshire Leeds City Bus Station via Shelf, Odsal and Stanningley B3
512 First West Yorkshire Mixenden via Mount Tabor and Wainstalls C4
517 First West Yorkshire Burnley via Hebden Bridge C27 -
528 Centrebus Rochdale via Sowerby Bridge, Ripponden and Littleborough A5
531 Centrebus Ripponden via Copley, Sowerby Bridge and Mill Bank C3
534 Centrebus Northowram C4 C45
535 First West Yorkshire Rye Lane via Pellon Service 36 C3
536 Huddersfield Bus Company Hudderfield via West Vale, Stainland and Outlane Services 537/539 B2
537 First West Yorkshire Hudderfield via Elland, Stainland and Outlane B2 -
Huddersfield Bus Company - B2
539 First West Yorkshire Shelf via Bradshaw, Queensbury and Hungerhill A6
Stainland via West Vale B2 Service 536
Centrebus B27 Service 536
541 First West Yorkshire Siddal A48 A4
Norton Tower D28 D2
542 First West Yorkshire Siddal Stops on Market Street A4
Norton Tower Stops on Market Street D2
546 First West Yorkshire Siddal A4 Services 541/542
Newlands via Warley Stops on Market Street D2
548 First West Yorkshire Nunnery Lane via Hipperholme and Brighouse D1 Service 549
549 First West Yorkshire Huddersfield via Hipperholme, Brighouse, Nunnery Lane and Rastrick D1
553 Centrebus Fountainhead Village via Pellon C4 -
554 Centrebus Wainstalls via Pellon C4 -
First West Yorkshire - C49
557 Centrebus Ripponden via Barkisland (evening journeys continue to Rishworth and Commons) B2
559 Centrebus Dean Head via Barkisland B2
560 First West Yorkshire
Centrebus		 Commons via Sowerby Bridge, Ripponden and Rishworth A5 A55
570 First West Yorkshire Bradford via Elland, Brighouse, Hipperholme and Shelf B4 -
571 First West Yorkshire Bradford via Southowram, Brighouse, Hipperholme and Shelf B4
572 Centrebus Southowram B4 B410
574 Centrebus Midgley via Sowerby Bridge and Booth A6
576 First West Yorkshire Bradford via Queensbury C1
577 Centrebus Hubberton via Sowerby Bridge and Sowerby A5
579 First West Yorkshire
Centrebus		 Sowerby via Sowerby Bridge A4
590 First West Yorkshire Rochdale via Hebden Bridge, Todmorden, Walsden and Littleborough C2
591 First West Yorkshire Heptonstall via Hebden Bridge C2 Services 590, 592, 594 to Hebden Bridge
592 First West Yorkshire Burnley via Hebden Bridge, Todmorden and Portsmouth C2
593 First West Yorkshire Old Town via Hebden Bridge C2 C211
594 First West Yorkshire Todmorden via Hebden Bridge C2
681 First West Yorkshire Bradford via Northowram, Shelf and Odsal B3 Service 682
682 First West Yorkshire Fagley via Northowram, Shelf, Woodside, Odsal and Bradford Service 681 to Bradford B3
832 Centrebus West End via Washer Lane A6 -
C68 Halifax Joint Committee Sainsbury's Free Bus A1 -
X8 First West Yorkshire Leeds City Bus Station via Shelf, Odsal and Stanningley B36 Service 508
X80 First West Yorkshire White Rose Centre via Elland, Brighouse and M62 motorway A1 -

Notes:

1 Weekday daytime only
2 Monday, Wednesday and Friday daytime only
3 Schooldays only
4 One weekday morning journey to Causeway Foot
5 Sunday daytime only
6 One weekday journey only
7 Saturdays only
8 Early mornings only
9 Sundays only
10 One evening journey only
11 Summer Sunday daytime to Hebden Bridge only

References

  1. ^ "Where to catch your bus in Halifax town centre" (PDF). Metro. http://www.wymetro.com/NR/rdonlyres/F89354AB-3F30-40DF-A6BA-4A16102C8AD9/0/CalderdaleWTCYB.pdf. Retrieved 2010-02-11. 
  2. ^ "Metro - Bus stations - Halifax Bus Station". Metro. http://www.wymetro.com/BusTravel/BusStationsAndStops/HalifaxBusStation. Retrieved 21 March 2010. 

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