David Slater (Spoddendale)'s photos with the keyword: Lancashire United

Thursday 27 August 2015 (1543) – Transdev Harrogate and District 1084 (PO51 MTX), a Wright Renown bodied Volvo B10BLE new to Lancashire United in December 2001, seen at Pateley Bridge leaving for Harrogate on the 1545 service 24. On schooldays this service would have started from Nidderdale High School. The houses on the left stand on the former trackbed of the Nidd Valley Light Railway which closed in the 1930s.

Thursday 27 August 2015 (1544) – Transdev Harrogate and District 1084 (PO51 MTX), a Wright Renown bodied Volvo B10BLE new to Lancashire United in December 2001, seen at Pateley Bridge prior to working the 1545 service 24 to Harrogate. The bus layby is much reduced from the days when the bus station and garage owned by the West Yorkshire Road Car Company occupied the site including the ground upon which the houses on the left now stand.

Thursday 27 August 2015 (1543) – Transdev Harrogate and District 1084 (PO51 MTX), a Wright Renown bodied Volvo B10BLE new to Lancashire United in December 2001, seen at Pateley Bridge prior to working the 1545 service 24 to Harrogate. The bus layby is much reduced from the days when the bus station and garage owned by the West Yorkshire Road Car Company occupied the site including the ground upon which the houses on the left now stand.

Sunday 5 July 2015 (1326) – Rosso (Rossendale Transport) 243 (YJ07 PBV) seen in St. James Street, Bacup passing the ‘Yelloway 100’ road run. It is a Wright bodied Volvo B7RLE new to Lancashire United in April 2007 which was working the Rochdale to Accrington service 464.

Sunday 5 July 2015 (1326) – Rosso (Rossendale Transport) 243 (YJ07 PBV) seen in Bacup when working the Rochdale to Accrington service 464. The bus stops for both directions of this service are on the same side of the street (behind the camera on the right). Rochdale bound buses simply travel through the town but Accrington bound buses have first to turn at the roundabout facing back towards Rochdale in order to pickup. Having done so the bus then pulls away making a U-turn in order to continue on its way. It is a Wright bodied Volvo B7RLE new to Lancashire United in April 2007.

Sunday 5 July 2015 (1326) – Rosso (Rossendale Transport) 243 (YJ07 PBV) seen in Bacup when working the Rochdale to Accrington service 464. The bus stops for both directions of this service are on the same side of the street (behind the camera on the right). Rochdale bound buses simply travel through the town but Accrington bound buses have first to turn at the roundabout facing back towards Rochdale in order to pickup. Having done so the bus then pulls away making a U-turn in order to continue on its way. It is a Wright bodied Volvo B7RLE new to Lancashire United in April 2007.

Sunday 5 July 2015 (0940) - Transdev owned Lancashire United 2758 (PJ05 ZWE) seen in Chorlton Street, Manchester. It had arrived as the 0814 service X41 from Blackburn via Accrington and Haslingden. It would return at 0950. A Wright Eclipse Gemini bodied Volvo B7TL new in August 2005 to Burnley & Pendle.

Sunday 5 July 2015 (0939) - Transdev owned Lancashire United 2758 (PJ05 ZWE) seen in Chorlton Street, Manchester. It had arrived as the 0814 service X41 from Blackburn via Accrington and Haslingden. It would return at 0950. A Wright Eclipse Gemini bodied Volvo B7TL new in August 2005 to Burnley & Pendle.

Sunday 5 July 2015 (0940) - Transdev owned Lancashire United 2758 (PJ05 ZWE) seen in Chorlton Street, Manchester. It had arrived as the 0814 service X41 from Blackburn via Accrington and Haslingden. It would return at 0950. A Wright Eclipse Gemini bodied Volvo B7TL new in August 2005 to Burnley & Pendle.

Monday 17 July 1972 - Lancashire United 216 (UTC 768), a 1964 Plaxton Panorama bodied Leyland Leopard, seen in Wellington Street coach station, Leeds when working the 0950 service X98 from Liverpool to Newcastle (due 1655). An LUT drive would have brought it from Liverpool and then returned with the Northern General coach working the southbound service). The LUT coach would then be driven by a West Yorkshire Road Car Company driver up to Newcastle and back to Leeds on the 1800 service due back in Leeds at 2140.

January 1972 - A Lancashire United Plaxton Panorama bodied Leyland Leopard heading eastbound on the M62. It was working the 0950 service from Liverpool to Newcastle (due 1655). After arrival in Newcastle it would work the 1800 service back to Leeds (2140). Currently it would have been being driven by an LUT driver between Liverpool and Leeds (who returned with a Northern General vehicle). From Leeds a West Yorkshire Road Car Company driver would drive Leeds-Newcastle-Leeds. (Photo taken from Broad Lane road bridge (B6194) near Rochdale)

November 1971 - Lancashire United Transport 315 (RTF 848G), a Plaxton Panorama Elite bodied Leyland Leopard, emerges from Clegg Street bus station in Oldham when working a Liverpool bound service of the Tyne-Tees-Mersey Limited Stop Pool service. It was new in May 1969. The property, owned by North Western Road Car Company, also served as the company's Oldham garage.

January 1972 - A Northern General Transport Alexander Y type bodied Leyland Leopard seen heading westbound on the M62 when working the 0900 service X98 from Newcastle to Liverpool (due 1620) - a Tyne-Tees-Mersey Pool service. The vehicle and crew workings for these services held a fascination for me. In this case a Northern General driver would have driven from Newcastle to Darlington (returning back to Newcastle with a West Yorkshire vehicle which had left Leeds at 0815) whereupon a West Yorkshire driver (working the 0815 service ex Leeds) would have driven the NGT coach to Leeds. At Leeds a Lancashire United driver (who had worked the 0950 service from Liverpool) then drove it through to Liverpool. Upon arrival in Liverpool the coach would work the 1850 Liverpool-Manchester service (due 2035) also in the hands of an LUT driver. (Photo taken from Broad Lane road bridge (B6194) near Rochdale)

Monday 17 July 1972 - (approx 1300) - Seen from the former cafe window overlooking the bus station. Going clockwise the vehicles are: North Western Leyland Leopard/Duple Commander (Westbound duplicate service X98); West Yorkshire Bristol RE/Eastern Coachworks (Service 43 to York and possibly Scarborough); West Yorkshire Bristol RE/Eastern Coachworks (dual purpose model); Northern General Leyland Leopard/Marshall (dual purpose model); Northern General 2631 (FCN 631F) Leyland Leopard/Alexander Y type (0900 Newcastle-Liverpool X98 service coach); Northern General 2633 (FCN 633F) Leyland Leopard/Alexander Y type (0910 Newcastle-Coventry 'Ten Cities Express' service coach); then a cream topped Alexander Y type that I believe was a Hebble or Yorkshire Woollen District coach running as the 1320 Leeds-Liverpool service X97); then a pair of West Yorkshire Bristol MW/Eastern Coachworks coaches. Out of shot to the left was Lancashire United 216, the service coach working the 0950 Liverpool-Newcastle X98). The station inspector can be seen in the dark suit at the rear of the NGT Marshall bodied vehicle. Note the West Yorkshire crew walking across the station towards their assigned vehicle, the male driver in short beige dust jacket and the female conductor in the longer version coat - both have the red collar and the coat a red belt.

Holt Brothers (Rochdale) Limited had commenced a service from the industrial towns in the Oldham, Rochdale and Rossendale areas to Blackpool in the 1920s. When Yelloway Motor Services Limited was created from the failed Holts business in April 1932 the services to Blackpool went from strength to strength and the services became a signifcant part of the Yelloway business. In the mid 1950s Yelloway entered pooling arrangements with Ribble, Standerwick, North Western and Lancashire United under the 'Fylde Coast Services' pool.