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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...
That bridge crossing over the brook is actually part of a private driveway to a beautiful secluded home.
Halifax Borough Market, a stunning Victorian indoor covered market with breathtaking Victorian ironwork.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
8th July 2014., Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Sailboat Mar passes McNabs Island and Maugher Beach lighthouse
Interesting story from the Halifax Magazine about this boat and its owners here
I thought the Marshall Darts were on their way out...not yet! Is this the oldest bus so far in the Calderdale fleet to receive the refreshed livery?
Olympian survivor S211LLO makes its way through Dean Clough with the once weekly 505 Halifax-Bradford Four Lane Ends service via Causeway Foot & Thornton. A Bradford-Halifax service runs once daily M-F mornings, but there is only one return working each week, at 12.30 on Mondays.
YJ06XLZ climbs the inclined roundabout from North Bridge to join the eastbound A58 as it swoops down behind on the flyover. Visible right is part of Dean Clough Mills, one time home of Crossley's Carpets, now a vast business park, home to many big and small businesses. The venture was the brainchild of local entrepeneur and concert pianist Sir Ernest Hall, who, it has to be said, has made a thumping success of it, ensuring that the historic mills continue to be occupied in a meaningful way. It also happens to be my workplace.
A battered looking YJ07JWC, new to K Line, heads through Dean Clough on its approach to Halifax Bus Station. Yorkshire Tiger is to be sold to Transdev later in 2021, along with premises at Huddersfield and Elland, the staff, and 61 vehicles. How would Transdev like this one, I wonder?
Summer term has ended, and, with it, I believe, the Olympian era in Halifax. At a time when previously they would have been out on the morning school run, R629JUB and R620JUB sit at the back of Elmwood Garage, awaiting their fate.
Post script: They didn't have to wait long. I believe that, later the same day, these vehicles were driven by First drivers to PVS, Barnsley, where they were immediately scrapped.
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.
In September 1973, before West Yorkshire municipal operators were swallowed up into the West Yorkshire PTE.
A PD2 stands at Halifax bus station on one of the joint routes to Bradford. A Bradford Corporation bus stands behind.