#AYearOfBuses 89: Calder Connect Rochdale – Burnley

Calder Connect

First West Yorkshire’s ‘Calder Connect’ 589 is our focus for today on #AYearOfBuses. A trio of routes centred on Todmorden in the Calder Valley come together to create ‘Calder Connect’. It’s a brand which has its own liveried buses, complete with green-fronted Volvo B7RLEs, but one which is seen hardly anywhere else – you’ll struggle […]

#AYearOfBuses 84: X84 Skipton – Leeds

First X84

It’s day 84 here on #AYearOfBuses, and today’s focus is on one of First in West Yorkshire’s most high-profile interurban routes. The X84 is First’s limited stop express route connecting Skipton with Otley and Leeds, featuring a fleet of high-spec purply-blue and gold-branded Alexander Dennis Enviro400MMCs. New in 2016, the bespoke fleet of double deckers […]

#AYearOfBuses 72: Hyperlink Leeds – Bradford

Hyperlink

Before Elon Musk’s Hyperloop, there was Hyperlink – First’s attempt to create a rapid transit corridor between Leeds and Bradford. It’s day 72 on #AYearOfBuses.  Now sadly dead and buried, Hyperlink launched between Leeds and Bradford in 2012 and was seen as a bus rapid transit-based replacement for the cancelled Leeds Supertram project – and for accommodating […]

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