Yelloway/National Express joint service X65 timetable - Summer 1976

Originally passengers heading for the south west of England from the Burnley and Blackburn area had a choice of either travelling to Preston to then take the Ribble coach services south or to travel to Manchester to take the Yelloway 'Devonian' service. Ribble and Yelloway had had a close working relationship for many years working together on their pool services from Oldham and Rochdale to the Fylde Coast established in the 1950s. In the late 1960s Yelloway and Ribble established the X65 service from Colne to Torbay. Ribble became a National Bus Company subsidiary and with the creation of National Travel their express services were then branded under the National name. Under the agreement for Yelloway and National Travel to exchange services during 1976 service X65 became solely operated by Yelloway.