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New to K Line and facing an uncertain future with the impending demise of Yorkshire Tiger, YJ07JVL sets out on the fairly recently re-introduced through service to Keighley via Denholme. Arriva will close Yorkshire Tiger later in July, with services to be taken over by new Transdev business, Team Pennine. Transdev will take on the staff, premises, and 61 vehicles.
On our second day in Halifax for the Unison Choruses Festival, I started the day with a short walkabout in the downtown and waterfront prior to the start of the event as I had some time to kill before festival delegate registration began. There weren't any actual festival concerts until the evening, but I needed to connect with the organizers ahead of the busy days to come.
Halifax, an Atlantic Ocean port in eastern Canada, is the provincial capital of Nova Scotia. A major business centre, it’s also known for its maritime history. The city’s dominated by the hilltop Citadel, a star-shaped fort completed in the 1850s. Waterfront warehouses known as the Historic Properties recall Halifax’s days as a trading hub for privateers, notably during the War of 1812. (wiki)
Big news today as it was announced that Arriva is to sell subsidiary Yorkshire Tiger to Transdev, with the sale being expected to complete in summer. The sale includes the staff and premises at Elland and Waterloo, Huddersfield, and approximately 60 vehicles. Two Wakefield routes will remain with Arriva.
The move brings Transdev into eastern Calderdale and South Kirklees for the first time, with a network of local routes and some interurban work. The depot at Waterloo was previously operated by Huddersfield Bus Co, an Arriva/Centrebus Holdings joint venture, and before that, for a brief period, Stagecoach following its purchase of Yorkshire Traction. Long before that, in pre NBC days, the depot was operated by County Motors, itself a jointly owned business in which Yorkshire Traction held a share.
Since Arriva's buying out of the Centrebus Holdings share in 2013, and relaunching the business as Yorkshire Tiger, it has seen mixed fortunes. It won some local work in Bradford, and also briefly operated some services from Wombwell, near Barnsley. It invested in new vehicles for the Flying Tiger Leeds-Bradford Airport shuttles, and some new Optare Solo SRs for some branded local services in Calderdale.
However, in 2020 Tiger did not apply to renew its airport contract, which went to - erm - Transdev. It lost its Bradford local work, and soon pulled out of Wombwell. Since then the vehicles have begun to look decidedly careworn, and it seemed clear that Arriva had lost interest, so this sale is hardly a surprise.
Hopefully Transdev will do its usual reboot on taking over a tired operation. It will be interesting to see which vehicles transfer, and how long they survive - Tiger (and Huddersfield Bus Co before it) has always been supplied with life-expired Arriva vehicles to strengthen fleet numbers. Transdev tends to keep its buses for a long time, but I'm guessing some of the vehicles they will inherit are just about run into the ground.
Interesting times, and hopefully a brighter future for the business. We will see whether it is to be renamed, and where it is to be managed from.
Pictured is YJ15AXK, one of the aforementioned SRs, seen here in Claremount, high above Halifax, giving a good indication of the local geography.
A bus with history - see tags! Now with Coach Travel Services, Huddersfield. Seen here on duty for Crossley Heath School, Halifax.
New to Reays, I believe YJ62JWL is now owned by Arriva Bus & Coach (dealers) and is used by them as a courtesy vehicle to replace vehicles in for work to be done. Here it is in a misty Halifax Bus Station about to work an early Halifax-Dewsbury service for Arriva Yorkshire, who have had this vehicle on loan before.
Halifax Harbour is a large natural harbour on the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia, Canada.
Located in the Halifax Regional Municipality, Halifax Harbour is considered to be the second largest ice free harbour in the world, although this claim is also contested by roughly a half dozen other harbours, depending upon how harbour limits are delineated.
The harbour is called chebucto by the Mi'kmaq Nation and runs in a northwest-southeast direction.
Based on average vessel speeds, the harbour is strategically located approximately one hour sailing time north of the Great Circle Route between the Eastern Seaboard and Europe. As such, it is the first inbound and last outbound port of call in eastern North America with trans-continental rail connections.
The harbour is largely formed by a drowned river valley which succumbed to sea level rise since glaciation. The Sackville River now empties into the upper end of the harbour in Bedford Basin, however its original river bed has been charted by the Canadian Hydrographic Service throughout the length of the harbour and beyond.
*Wikipedia
Halifax Transit 2012 NovaBus LFS artic #753 is seen finishing a rush hour run on route 52. It is rare to see an articulated Bus out of Ragged Lake on the 52, usually the artics on this route are Burnsides
Halifax Transit 978 is a 1996 Nova Bus TC40-102N.
Photo taken at the Ragged Lake Transit Centre in Halifax, NS.
For my video; youtu.be/Tw5f0FjKuWQ
Named after;
Viola Irene Desmond (July 6, 1914 – February 7, 1965) was a Canadian civil 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.
VIOLA DESMOND (IMO: 8793627) is a Passenger Ship registered and sailing under the flag of Canada. Her gross tonnage is 260 VIOLA DESMOND was built in 2016. The ship is operated by HALIFAX TRANSIT FERRY SYSTEM.
LOA: 24 metres
Beam: 9.45 metres
Depth: 2.89 metres
GRT: 3.14 metres
Vessel Type: Passenger Ferry
Complement: 390 passengers
5 crew – (395 total)
Classification: Minor Waters Class I
Main Engines: 2 x 385 BHP @1800RPM MCR
Propulsion: 2 Voith drives Model# 12R4 EC/75-1
Cruise Speed: 9 knots
Max Speed: 10 knots
Fuel Capacity: 19,800 litres
Water Capacity: 1,500 litres
This HDR is made up of 15 shots with my Canon PowerShot S5 IS mounted on a tripod set to manual exposure and adjusting the shutter speed. The images were combined using Photomatic Basic.
This photo was taken from the dock. Last fall I took a similar photo from the balcony of the ferry terminal.
Operated by: Halifax Transit
Built in: 2010
Manufacturer: Nova Bus
Model: LFS Artic
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W808DWX was among the first First Bradford buses to get the refreshed livery, and was branded for the 620/621 cross-city Bierley-Haworth Road service with several of its fellow batch members. It and some others have now transferrred to Halifax and can be found almost anywhere in the patch. Seen here returning from a Ryburn Valley service at King Cross in a tight spot with new addition BD13YTW which is headed off along the Calder Valley.
CT Plus (Yorkshire) is operating a couple of First services under contract in Calderdale from 1st November. Here is brand new YX71OJJ negotiating Waterhouse Street setting out for Rochdale.
Counting down the last few weeks of Yorkshire Tiger: it's been announced by Transdev that the new name for the business will be "Team Pennine", and Tiger's bright orange will be replaced by a magenta colour scheme. Here is ex Arriva Yorkshire YJ09EYB approaching Halifax Bus Station on the short run down from Claremount.