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Vegetation clearance has opened up the view of the trackbed of the GN branch from North Bridge to Queensbury. The North Bridge end portal of Old Lane Tunnel is visible. For some of its 402 yard length it is 'cut & cover'. The other portal is more difficult to access. Another short branch passed underneath the trackbed here into Crossley's Dean Clough Mills. See:
Operated by: Halifax Transit
Built in: 2021
Manufacturer: Nova Bus
Model: LFS
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Out of Service, seen on deadhead to Ragged Lake Transit Center.
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A view along a section of Halifax Harbour. In the foreground is HMCS Ville de Quebec.
August 2, 2020
Yorkshire Tiger fades away before your very eyes - in recent days much of the branding has been removed from vehicles. Presumably this is to facilitate a quick rebrand once Transdev takes over in a little over 36 hours from now.
Operated by: Halifax Transit
Built in: 2006
Manufacturer: New Flyer Industries
Model: D40LF
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10 Dalhousie via Spring Garden
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A month from now and things will have changed. Yorkshire Tiger will have gone and in its place will be Transdev Team Pennine, who hope to begin from day 1 with some new vehicles (I'm not defining 'new' here). YJ07JVL returns from the hilltop Wainstalls terminus back down to Halifax Bus Station, with Mecca Bingo (formerly the Odeon) behind.
A Handley Page Halifax bomber from WWII, recovered from a Norwegian Lake back in the 1970s. Seen at the RAF Museum in north London.
"On the Buses", with Andrew Stopford as cheeky driver Stan Butler, and Kelvyn Waites as hapless Inspector Cyril Blake. Stan: "Phwooar, look at that tasty bird over there Blakey!" Blakey: "I 'ate you Butler. Get that bus aht!" The End.
PJX35 at rest outside All Saints Parish Hall having brought a party of Halifax Gilbert & Sullivan Society members back from an afternoon out at (a very wet) Bolton Abbey to celebrate my 60th birthday. Thanks once again to Kelvyn for allowing me to drive this magnificent machine. I used to go to school on this bus, my brother, who worked as a fitter for Halifax Passenger Transport, used to maintain it, and Kelvyn drove it in service for Halifax Passenger Transport. It is part owned by Dave Sayer, who also used to work for Halifax Passenger Transport.
Nova Scotia. A bit of an experiment. The image was processed in DXO Optics Pro 10, exported as a DNG file, WB adjusted in Lightroom CC, then the image was resized twice at 110% in Photoshop. Finally the detail was increased in Topaz Adjust 5, giving a final image of 18mp from a 12mp file.
The Halifax Piece Hall is the sole survivor of the great C18th Northern cloth halls, a class of buildings which embodied the vital and dominant importance of the trade in hand woven textiles to the pre-industrial economy of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Dating from 1779, when it was built as a Cloth Hall for the trading of ‘pieces’ of cloth (a 30 yard length of woven woollen fabric produced on a handloom), The Piece Hall was the most ambitious and prestigious of its type and now stands in splendid isolation as the only remaining example. It is one of Britain’s most outstanding Georgian buildings.
Yorkshire Tiger has won a number of schools contracts in Calderdale from September 2015, and six Arriva Yorks B7TL/Presidents have been cascaded to help with the task, the first 'big' buses to be based in Yorkshire Tiger's Calderdale fleet (in succession to Huddersfield Bus Co) since the end of Halifax Joint Committee days in 2010. X675YUG is also in service. The other four are being prepared.
The redevelopment of Halifax Bus Station has led to the creation of bus stops around the town centre. Well travelled YJ07JVM loads for a 502 Keighley service in Albion Street. Previously Flying Tiger branded for the Yorkshire Tiger airport shuttles, it retains its base colour scheme. It was new to K Line, Honley, and for a time carried the short lived Tiger Blue branding introduced shortly after the Yorkshire Tiger launch in 2013. Tiger Blue was a brand for the former K Line Huddersfield network. The vehicle came to Yorkshire Tiger via Arriva/Centrebus joint venture which took over the former Stagecoach depot at Waterloo, renaming the business Huddersfield Bus Co, before buying K Line from its independent ownership. The vehicle spent a few months on loan to Arriva Tees (in full FlyingTiger livery), returning to Yorkshire Tiger not long before the closure of the business in July 2021.
TJ Walsh Plaxton Primo seen passing through Halifax on 20/10/2010. This example joined the fleet from Francis Drake.
TJ Walsh were well known for their fleet of small and often unusual buses, unfortunately they ceased trading in 2020.
I'm guessing that opinions will be polarised on this - First has repainted YJ06XLY into a 'fantasy' Halifax livery - is this what Halifax buses would have looked like today if they had escaped WYPTE's verona green & buttermilk? What would Geoffrey Hilditch make of it? Personally, I like it, and think First are to be congratulated on their sense of fun. Unfortunately, this picture depicts a scene of distress. YJ06XLY set off smartly from the bus station up Broad Street, only to come to a halt at the Town Hall traffic lights. It was still there over two hours later...
Nova Bus LFS Artic, New Flyer XD40, New Flyer D40LFs, and Nova Bus LFS at Ragged Lake Garage - Halifax, Nova Scotia
I'm not sure what make the car is on this road-run or where it was taken, although the signage on the road seems to indicate directions to Rochdale and Burnley (now identified as King Cross Road, Halifax).
Apparently, it is a Gwynne Eight Fire Engine of 1922, based on a car chassis. It is kept, or has been kept, in Coventry Transport Museum.
Scanned from a negative in my collection.
YJ07JVL, SB120/Cadet new to K Line, latterly in Tiger Blue livery for work in Huddersfield, given the full Tiger treatment and now at work in Halifax. Yorkshire Tiger is to be sold to Transdev later in 2021.
Northern Express Sprinter 158871 calls at Halifax on 1B20 11.18 York - Preston as 158754 departs on 2E09 11.38 Manchester Oxford Road - Leeds.
28th March 2018
Operated by: Halifax Transit
Built in: 2016
Manufacturer: Nova Bus
Model: LFS
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1211 seen out of service on Barrington St after dropping riders at Scotia Square Bay 1.
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Made a visit up to the crash site of Halifax DK 116 on Glendhu Hill yesterday after a failed attempt last year with my brother, with it being in a very remote area of Keilder forest I decided on accessing via Kershope forest this time.
Parking at the Cuddy's Hall picnic area and biking up to Glendhu which is about 6 hard miles then I stashed the bike before heading across the boggy moor, I went into the forest at "Robinson's Gears" were I was hoping it would be easier walking however this was short-lived and was no easier. It felt like I was walking for an age before I came across the crashsite at Marven's Cleugh (about a 1.5mile hike from the bike)
I thought the trees around the site might have been harvested since I was last here 6 years back but no still as it was .
A new more substantial cross has been erected and still lots of wreckage surrounds the area thanks to the remoteness.
After paying my respects I trudged back over the moor to my bike and thankfully it was mostly downhill back to the car.
This in my opinion is the easiest and quickest way to access but no easier due to still having to cross the moor.
On Sunday 15th/Monday 16th October 1944, (N1870) at 22.00 During a cross country exercise from RAF Sandtoft ,Lincs Halifax V DK116/GG-Z of 1667HCU suffered a fire on the inner port engine at 12000 ft. Three of the crew managed to bail out, but four crew stayed with the aircraft to assist the rear gunner who had difficulty in escaping from his turret. The aircraft crashed into Glendhu Hill, Kielder, Northumberland killing the four remaining crewmen.
The crew were:
Pilot: P/O H.G. Haddrell - Killed
Navigator: Sgt J Mahoney - Survived
F/E: Sgt J Neilson - Killed
W/Op: Sgt Reid - Survived
W/Op: Sgt M.F. James - Killed
A/G: Sgt Hammond - Survived
R/G: W/O G Symmonds - Killed
This site is protected by Military Remains Act 1986
YJ57YCA demonstrates the unsuitability of the new bus lane put in for access to the temporary bus station facility. If a bus were to go into the lane, it would have insufficient swing room to get in through the narrow entrance. Presumably this will be changed soon. Obviously designed by a car driver.