Yelloway Lancashire-London timetable - Summer 1963

The Yelloway Lancashire-London service had its origins with Holt Brothers (Rochdale) Limited. By 1963 the M1 Motorway had been completed south of Leicester and Yelloway took advantage to supplement its original route via Northampton and Dunstable with a Motorway alternative. This involved running two coaches over the Manchester-Leicester section from where one went via the old route and the other via the M1 - a format which Hubert Allen once told me wasn't found to be the best idea. Separate quite distinctive motorway express services were subsequently introduced as was greater use of the motorway for the service south of Derby on the 'traditional' service. Around this time the Yelloway interests over the Derby-Northampton section became part of the joint Yelloway and Premier Travel service from Blackpool/Blackburn via Derby, Leicester and to Cambridge and Clacton-on-Sea.