Connexionsbuses

Connexionsbuses

Northern Counties bodied Scania N113DRB
in October 2011
Parent Craig Temple
Founded 2002
Headquarters Borough of Harrogate
Service area North Yorkshire
West Yorkshire
Service type Bus services
Destinations Harrogate, Otley, York and Wetherby
Fleet 24 (November 2012)
Website www.connexionsbuses.com

Connexionsbuses[1] is a bus operator based in Borough of Harrogate.

History

Alexander bodied Scania N113 in July 2009

Harrogate Coach Travel was established in 2002 by Craig and Julie Temple to operate local services in the York area, to Ripon via Great Hammerton, before expanding to operate tendered services for North Yorkshire County Council and the West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive.

Harrogate Coach Travel also operated the X54 service from York to Harrogate, but that service was withdrawn in August 2010,[2] which left the X52 and X53 services to Ilkley and Guiseley as their only Harrogate services.

In March 2011, the business was rebranded as Connexionsbuses.[3]

In April 2011, route X70 was introduced between Harrogate and Wetherby and several local services in Harrogate under contract from North Yorkshire County Council.[4]

At the same time, the North Yorkshire contract to run buses between York and Ripon was lost, and Harrogate Coach Travel commenced operating joint services from York to Ripon and Wetherby in partnership with Eddie Brown Tours.[5]

In August 2013 Connexionsbuses commenced operating routes 780 Knaresborough - Wetherby and 923 Otley - Tadcaster under contract to the West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive, although in late 2016 these services were transferred to Transdev Keighley.[6]

Services

Connexionsbuses operate services to York, Boroughbridge, Ripon, Guiseley, Ilkley, Otley, Knaresborough and Wetherby. From August 2010, the company expanded more in the Ilkley and Otley areas of West Yorkshire, when they took over the Ilkley and Otley local services from First West Yorkshire and the 940 service to Holt Park from TLC Travel.[7] The company started more services in the Wetherby area in April 2011, linking the town to York. Late 2013 Connexionsbuses took over services 780 from Wetherby to Knaresborough and 923 from Otley to Tadcaster. Late April 2014, Connexionsbuses services 104/110/111/112 were replaced by X4 to Wedderburn X6 to Pannal Ash X6a to Harlow Carr and X12 to Duchy Road all from Harrogate. When Eddie Browns collapsed, Connexions stood in on the 142/143 service until January 5th. The service was then taken over by Transdev York, they also operated the 56/57 Harrogate-Ripon/Roecliffe service which was transferred to The Harrogate Bus Company.

Fleet

In June 2015 the company has 42 buses but not all are operational.[8]

As of May 2016, the company owns the following vehicles.

Alexander Royale ALX400 East Lancs Lolyne Optare Solo Leyland Olympian Wright Solar Wright Endurance Dennis Dart and Scania Omnicity.

References

  1. ↑ Companies House extract company no 4367719 Harrogate Coach Travel Limited
  2. ↑ "X54 Buses from York to Harrogate". Get Down. Retrieved 5 August 2010.
  3. ↑ Harrogate Coach Travel becomes Connexionsbuses Connexionbuses 5 March 2011
  4. ↑ New service from Harrogate to York Connexionsbuses 5 March 2011
  5. ↑ 142/411/412/413 Timetable North Yorkshire Travel Info 30 April 2012
  6. ↑ Service 780 (Knaresborough to Wetherby) and 923 (Otley to Tadcaster) Connexionsbuses
  7. ↑ "August Public Transport Changes" (PDF). Metro. Retrieved 5 August 2010.
  8. ↑ Connexions Buses North East Buses
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