West Yorkshire network changes Feb 2024
From 18 February 2024
We are making some changes to our bus services across West Yorkshire from 18th February.
There will be changes to some routes and timetables from 18th February. Key features of these changes include:
- Extra evening trips on services 106, 126, 148/149, 189, 195/196, 268, 444/446 and 496. At the moment we run a bus every hour each evening on these routes, but we’ll be doubling that with a bus every 30 minutes each evening from 18th February.
- Lots of timetables are changed to reflect the latest traffic volumes, helping to improve our punctuality.
- Due to Safety concerns, service 174 is no longer able to serve Bottom Boat Road.
- Due to very low demand, evening and Sunday trips on service 260, and Monday to Saturday evening trips on service 261 are withdrawn. Also due to very low demand, school services KH1 and RA1 will no longer run.
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The full list of timetable changes is below.
102/103 Wakefield – Eastmoor – City Fields - Pinderfields
Some changes are made to the timetable to improve the punctuality of the service.
104 Wakefield – Flanshaw – Alverthorpe
Some changes are made to the timetable to improve the punctuality of the service. In Alverthorpe, buses will run in an anti-clockwise loop serving Batley Road direct to Alverthorpe terminus, before returning via Flanshaw Lane and Flanshaw Road.
105 Wakefield – Belle Isle – Portobello Estate
Some changes are made to the timetable to improve the punctuality of the service.
106 Wakefield – Belle Isle – Kettlethorpe – Crigglestone – Hall Green
NEW! Extra evening trips introduced!
Major changes are made to the timetable to improve the punctuality of the service, and additional evening journeys are introduced. The service will still operate up to every 15 minutes Monday to Saturday daytime, up to every 30 minutes Sunday daytime, and it will now run up to every 30 minutes each evening.
107 Wakefield – Thornes – Calder Park – Durkar
Some changes are made to the timetable to improve the punctuality of the service.
110 Leeds – Robin Hood – Lofthouse – Outwood – Wakefield
Major changes are made to the timetable to improve the punctuality of the service. The service will still operate up to every 15 minutes Monday to Saturday daytime, up to every 30 minutes Sunday daytime, and up to every 30 minutes each evening.
111 Wakefield – Pinderfields Hospital
Some changes are made to the timetable to improve the punctuality of the service.
118 White Rose – Middleton – East Ardsley – Junction 41 – Outwood – Wakefield
Some changes are made to the timetable to improve the punctuality of the service.
122 Gawthorpe – Ossett – Lupset – Wakefield
Some changes are made to the timetable to improve the punctuality of the service.
126 Wakefield – Horbury – Ossett – Chickenley – Dewsbury
NEW! Extra evening trips introduced!
Major changes are made to the timetable to improve the punctuality of the service, and additional evening journeys are introduced. The service will still operate up to every 15 minutes Monday to Saturday daytime, up to every 30 minutes Sunday daytime, and it will now run up to every 30 minutes each evening.
148/149 Wakefield – Featherstone – Pontefract – Ferrybridge – Knottingley
NEW! Extra evening trips introduced!
Major changes are made to the timetable to improve the punctuality of the service, and additional evening journeys are introduced. The service will still operate up to every 15 minutes Monday to Saturday daytime, up to every 30 minutes Sunday daytime, and it will now run up to every 30 minutes each evening.
Buses will now wait time at the Agbrigg Corner bus stop in both directions, instead of Warmfield Common.
156 Castleford – Airedale – Ferry Fryston
Some changes are made to the timetable each evening and on Sundays.
163 Leeds – Cross Gates – Garforth – Kippax – Castleford
The 2305 trip from Leeds to Kippax will now continue along the full route to Castleford.
174/175 Wakefield – Outwood/Stanley – Woodlesford – Garforth – Wetherby/Castleford
Major changes are made to the timetable to improve the punctuality of the service.
Unfortunately, our drivers have been having trouble serving Bottom Boat Road due to inconsiderate car parking. When our buses cannot pass the cars to reach the terminus, that puts our drivers in a difficult predicament as the road is then blocked. We have been discussing this issue with Wakefield Council for over a year, but regrettably the problem has continued. On Safety grounds, we now have no choice but to withdraw our 174 service from Bottom Boat Road. We will run direct via Aberford Road instead.
189 Wakefield – Normanton – Castleford
NEW! Extra evening trips introduced!
Some changes are made to the timetable to improve the punctuality of the service, and additional evening journeys are introduced. The service will still operate up to every 15 minutes Monday to Saturday daytime, up to every 30 minutes Sunday daytime, and it will now run up to every 30 minutes each evening.
195/196 Wakefield – Belle Isle – New Crofton – Ryhill – Newstead/Hemsworth
NEW! Extra evening trips introduced!
Major changes are made to the timetable to improve the punctuality of the service, and additional evening journeys are introduced between Wakefield and Ryhill. Existing evening journeys to Newstead are extended to Hemsworth via South Hiendley as new variant 195A.
The combined service will operate as follows:
• Between Wakefield and New Crofton up to every 15 minutes Monday to Saturday daytime, up to every 30 minutes Sunday daytime, and it will now run up to every 30 minutes each evening.
• Between Wakefield and Newstead up to every 30 minutes Monday to Saturday daytime, up to every hour Sunday daytime and each evening.
• Between Wakefield and Hemsworth via South Hiendley up to every hour Monday to Saturday daytime, and it will now run up to every hour Sunday daytime and each evening.
200/201 Leeds – White Rose Shopping Centre – Morley – Cleckheaton/Batley – Heckmondwike
Some changes are made to the timetable to improve the punctuality of the service.
202/203 Leeds – White Rose Shopping Centre – Dewsbury – Mirfield – Huddersfield
Major changes are made to the timetable to improve the punctuality of the service. Evening journeys to Leeds will now alternate between the 202 and 203 routes.
212 Dewsbury – Dewsbury District Hospital - Batley – Alverthorpe - Wakefield
Major changes are made to the timetable to improve the punctuality of the service.
229 Leeds – Gildersome – Birstall – Heckmondwike – Roberttown – Huddersfield
Some changes are made to the timetable to improve the punctuality of the service.
230/230A Dewsbury – Ouzelwell – Whitley – Grange Moor
Some changes are made to the timetable to improve the punctuality of the service.
231/232 Huddersfield – Waterloo – Lepton – Sitlington – Horbury – Wakefield
Some changes are made to the timetable to improve the punctuality of the service.
250 Heckmondwike – Dewsbury Moor - Dewsbury
Some changes are made to the timetable to improve the punctuality of the service.
254/255 Leeds – Drighlington – Gomersal – Cleckheaton – Brighouse/Halifax
Some changes are made to the timetable to improve the punctuality of the service.
260 Cleckheaton – Roberttown – Colne Bridge – Kirkheaton – Dalton – Huddersfield
Due to very low demand, evening and Sunday trips are withdrawn.
261 Heckmondwike – Roberttown – Mirfield – Kirkheaton – Dalton – Huddersfield
Due to very low demand, Monday to Saturday evening trips are withdrawn. Sunday evening trips which are run with funding under contract to West Yorkshire Combined Authority will continue to run.
268 Bradford – Low Moor – Cleckheaton – Heckmondwike – Dewsbury – Wakefield
NEW! Extra evening trips introduced!
Major changes are made to the timetable to improve the punctuality of the service, and additional evening journeys are introduced. The service will still operate up to every 15 minutes Monday to Saturday daytime, up to every 30 minutes Sunday daytime, and it will now run up to every 30 minutes each evening.
271 Cleckheaton – Gomersal – Heckmondwike – Carlinghow – Batley
Due to very low demand, the 1453 trip from Whitcliffe Mount School to Heckmondwike is withdrawn.
280 Dewsbury – Thornhill
Some changes are made to the timetable to improve the punctuality of the service.
281/283 Bradford / Birstall Retail Park – Birstall – Batley – Dewsbury
Some changes are made to the timetable to improve the punctuality of the service.
377/378 Huddersfield – Marsh – Oakes – Quarmby – Mount
Some changes are made to the timetable to improve the punctuality of the service.
425 Bradford – Drighlington – Gildersome – Morley – Wakefield
Some changes are made to the timetable to improve the punctuality of the service.
444/446 Leeds – Rothwell – Stanley – City Fields – Wakefield
NEW! Extra evening trips introduced!
Major changes are made to the timetable to improve the punctuality of the service, and evening journeys are introduced on the 444 route. The combined service will still operate up to every 15 minutes Monday to Saturday daytime, up to every 30 minutes Sunday daytime, and it will now run up to every 30 minutes each evening, alternating between the 444 and 446 routes.
There will now only be one double decker bus to extend to and from St Thomas a Becket school, but additional trips from and to Wakefield are being provided on the new 106 and 195/196 timetables.
496 Wakefield – Fitzwilliam – Hemsworth – South Elmsall – Upton
NEW! Extra evening trips introduced!
NEW! Extra Sunday trips introduced!
Major changes are made to the timetable to improve the punctuality of the service, and additional evening and Sunday journeys are introduced. The service will still operate up to every 15 minutes Monday to Saturday daytime between Wakefield and South Elmsall, up to every 30 minutes to Upton, and it will now run up to every 30 minutes across the full route each evening and on Sundays too.
571 Halifax – Southowram – Brighouse – Lightcliffe – Hipperholme – Shelf
Some changes are made to the timetable to improve the punctuality of the service.
KH1 Kettlethorpe High School
This service will no longer run due to very low demand, but services 106 and 107 continue to serve the school.
RA1 Rodillian Academy
This service will no longer run due to very low demand.
WF1 Wakefield College Castleford Campus
The morning trip which leaves Wakefield at 0814 will now run 10 minutes later at 0824.