Huddersfield Corporation Passenger Transport Department : Official Time Tables : April 1965
Like all other municipally owned transport undertakings Huddesfield produced regular editions of their timetables, updated to show changes in routes and service patterns. By the mid-1960s, sadly, the common story was one of general decline especially in terms of service frequencies as car ownership and the rise in TV use saw both business and leisure trips by public transport tail off. In the case of Huddersfield, by 1965, another big change was underway as the once extensive trolleybus services operated by the Corporation began to be abandoned with routes changing over to diesel bus operation. By 1968 the charming scene on the cover, of the town's Railway Station flanked by the George Hotel along with a sweep of trolleybus overhead and both types of 'bus in view, would be gone.
Huddersfield was one of those northern towns whose operating territory stretched some distance outside the old County Borough boundary and, like neighbouring Halifax, a degree of coordination with other concerns who had road passenger transport interests (most notably the railways) was brought about by the existance of a "Joint Omnibus Committee". This meant the existance of 'two' fleets and two separate sets of regulations and conditions along with fare sharing arrangements. This came to an end following the changes to the industry after the 1968 Transport Act when, technically, many of the BR interests would pass to the new National Bus Company and many municipal operators within the new PTE and later Metropolitan Counties would be merged into new undertakings. This would eventually be the case with Huddersfield and in PTE days much was simplified with outright transfer of operations and routes to 'new' operators.
Huddersfield Corporation Passenger Transport Department : Official Time Tables : April 1965
Like all other municipally owned transport undertakings Huddesfield produced regular editions of their timetables, updated to show changes in routes and service patterns. By the mid-1960s, sadly, the common story was one of general decline especially in terms of service frequencies as car ownership and the rise in TV use saw both business and leisure trips by public transport tail off. In the case of Huddersfield, by 1965, another big change was underway as the once extensive trolleybus services operated by the Corporation began to be abandoned with routes changing over to diesel bus operation. By 1968 the charming scene on the cover, of the town's Railway Station flanked by the George Hotel along with a sweep of trolleybus overhead and both types of 'bus in view, would be gone.
Huddersfield was one of those northern towns whose operating territory stretched some distance outside the old County Borough boundary and, like neighbouring Halifax, a degree of coordination with other concerns who had road passenger transport interests (most notably the railways) was brought about by the existance of a "Joint Omnibus Committee". This meant the existance of 'two' fleets and two separate sets of regulations and conditions along with fare sharing arrangements. This came to an end following the changes to the industry after the 1968 Transport Act when, technically, many of the BR interests would pass to the new National Bus Company and many municipal operators within the new PTE and later Metropolitan Counties would be merged into new undertakings. This would eventually be the case with Huddersfield and in PTE days much was simplified with outright transfer of operations and routes to 'new' operators.