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Still in Leeds City livery but with a Halifax flash applied on the side - used on schools work, I believe.
Halifax Transit offers two ferry services: The Alderney Ferry service crosses from Halifax to Alderney Landing in downtown Dartmouth and the Woodside Ferry service crosses from Halifax to Woodside.
This ferry ship is named after Viola Desmond, a Canadian civil and women's rights activist and businesswoman of Black Nova Scotian descent. In 1946, she challenged racial segregation at a cinema in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, by refusing to leave a whites-only area of the Roseland Theatre
Ex Arriva NE MPD NK55MYR has transferred to Arriva subsidiary Yorkshire Tiger, and has appeared in full Yorkshire Tiger livery, a welcome change from recent transfers, where buses have been put in to service in 'as received' condition. Looks good! Unlike the snow, a very unwelcome arrival.
Halifax Transit 1197, a 2014 New Flyer XD40, on route 82 at the Sackville Transit Terminal on Thursday, June 1st, 2023.
NK55MYR has just left Rye Lane terminus for the long descent back to Halifax town centre. It is ex Arriva North East.
Passing through Dean Clough on the last leg of its journey from Keighley, and of its life with Yorkshire Tiger, is YJ09EYA, new to Arriva Yorkshire. Yorkshire Tiger will close later in July, with services being taken over by new Transdev business, Team Pennine. Whether or not YJ09EYA transfers to the new business remains to be seen. Staff, premises, and 61 vehicles will transfer.
Halifax Borough Market, a stunning Victorian indoor covered market with breathtaking Victorian ironwork.
Kids exploring one of the art installations in Halifax Public gardens during Nocturne Night at Halifax.
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...
A Handley Page Halifax bomber from WWII, recovered from a Norwegian Lake back in the 1970s. Seen at the RAF Museum in north London.
That bridge crossing over the brook is actually part of a private driveway to a beautiful secluded home.
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.
North Bridge, Halifax is a Victorian iron and stone bridge at Halifax, West Yorkshire, in northern England. It crosses the valley of the River Hebble, connecting the town to roads to Bradford and Leeds. Replacing an earlier six arch stone bridge it was raised to allow the subsequent construction of the Halifax High Level Railway under it with an adjoining station. Opened in 1871 amid chaotic crowd scenes it carried increasingly heavy traffic until it was by-passed by the Burdock Way in 1973. It remains in use for local traffic.
Halifax isn't known for its town centre high rise buildings, but DB250/Spectra YG52CFX has managed to be in shot with not one, but two tower blocks, Lister Court, residential flats, in the background, and Crown House, offices, to the right, as it negotiates upper Crown Street. Arriva subsidiary Yorkshire Tiger will close later in July, to be replaced by new Transdev business Team Pennine. Transdev is taking on the premises at Elland and Waterloo, Huddersfield, the staff, and 61 vehicles from Yorkshire Tiger (although the fledgling Team Pennine website implies they are taking all the vehicles, initially at least). YG52CFX was new to Arriva Yorkshire. Major investment, including new buses in Halifax, is promised.
For our summer vacation in Nova Scotia, we drove down to Halifax on Canada day. And boy, the Canadians turned out in red. Check out more on the blog.
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.
"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.