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

Extract from the 'ABC Coach and Bus Guide' Winter 1969/1970 showing the Tyne-Tees-Mersey 'Limited Stop' Pool services. The pool operators were Lancashire United Transport, Northern General Transport, United Automobile Services, West Yorkshire Road Car Company and Yorkshire Woollen District.

Extract from the 'ABC Coach Guide' Summer 1951 showing the Tyne-Tees-Mersey 'Limited Stop' Pool services. The pool operators were Lancashire United Transport, Northern General Transport, United Automobile Services, West Yorkshire Road Car Company and Yorkshire Woollen District.

Ribble Motor Services and West Yorkshire Road Car Company operated their joint service X192 during the summer months linking Liverpool and Scarborough by way of many intermediate towns and villages. We lived in Rochdale and my paternal Grandparents (along with aunties, uncles and cousins) lived in Scarborough so we used the service on a regular basis. Sometimes we travelled on a Ribble all-Leyland Royal Tiger and sometimes an it would be an EUG class Eastern Coachworks bodied Bristol LS/MW of West Yorkshire. This timetable was operational from 15 May to 27 September 1964. Between the start date and 29 June the service operated Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays only - each partner operating from their 'native end' on Fridays and Sundays returning home Saturdays and Mondays. From 30 June to 30 September the service ran daily with each partner working out one day and back the next. On Saturdays there was also a St. Helens-Scarborough-St. Helens round trip usually covered by Ribble.

Ribble Motor Services and West Yorkshire Road Car Company operated their joint service X192 during the summer months linking Liverpool and Scarborough by way of many Lancashire and Yorkshire towns and villages. This timetable was operational from 11 May to 30 September 1956. Between the start date and 29 June the service operated Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays only - each partner operating from their 'native end' on Fridays and Sundays returning home Saturdays and Mondays. From 30 June to 30 September the service ran daily with each partner working out one day and back the next. On Saturdays there was also a St. Helens-Scarborough-St. Helens round trip usually covered by Ribble. We lived in Rochdale and my paternal Grandparents (along with aunties, uncles and cousins) lived in Scarborough so we used the service on a regular basis.

Friday 28 August 2015 – A timetable dated 21 July 1930 on display in the Nidderdale Museum in Pateley Bridge showing the service between Pateley Bridge and Ripon operated by Longster Brothers. This was a family run business based in Pateley Bridge that closed sometime during the 1970s or 1980s.

Friday 28 August 2015 – This photograph on display at the Nidderdale Museum in Pateley Bridge shows a line up of coaches operated by Longster Brothers, a company based in Pateley Bridge that closed sometime during the 1970s or 1980s.

Friday 28 August 2015 – West Yorkshire Road Car Company tickets on display in the Nidderdale Museum in Pateley Bridge.

Friday 28 August 2015 – A West Yorkshire Road Car Company timetable on display in the Nidderdale Museum in Pateley Bridge. The company ran most of the bus services in the area and this timetable includes service 23 operated between Pateley Bridge and Harrogate via Ripley, Bishop Thornton and Burnt Yates. However, the main service between the two locations was service 24 via Hampsthwaite, Birstwith, Darley and Dacre which is now the only remaining service in 2015 operated by Harrogate and District. Both the 23 and 24 travelled the same route between Harrogate and Killinghall and between Summerbridge and Pateley Bridge.

Friday 28 August 2015 – This photograph on display at the Nidderdale Museum in Pateley Bridge shows King Street. The site on the right is where the West Yorkshire Road Car Company had a garage and bus station property from the 1950s.

Friday 28 August 2015 – This photograph on display at the Nidderdale Museum in Pateley Bridge shows West Yorkshire Road Car Company JYG 727, a 1951 Eastern Coachworks bodied Bristol LWL5G, on service 22 in the Yorkshire Dales. Initially fleet number 433 it later became SGW10.

Friday 28 August 2015 – This photograph on display at the Nidderdale Museum in Pateley Bridge was taken in 1956 and shows West Yorkshire Road Car Company JWU 875, a 1950 Eastern Coachworks bodied Bristol LL5G, on the opening day of Pateley Bridge bus station. Initially fleet number 405 it later became SGL5. Service 24 is the only remaining service linking Pateley Bridge and Harrogate in 2015 now operated by Harrogate and District.

Friday 28 August 2015 – A display of bus related items in the in the Nidderdale Museum in Pateley Bridge. The left panel shows items relating to Longster Brothers Coaches, a company based in Pateley Bridge that closed sometime during the 1970s or 1980s. On the right are items relating to the West Yorkshire Road Car Company, the big company operator that ran most of the bus services in the area.

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 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 - A United Automobile Services Eastern Coachworks bodied Bristol RE (from the UHN-G batch) seen pulling out of Wellington Street Coach Station, Leeds working the 1155 hrs service X99 to Middlesbrough. Note the 'double lollipop' sign which was a prominent feature of this coach station operated by the West Yorkshire Road Car Company. service X99 forms part of the 'Tyne-Tees-Mersey' Limited Stop pool.

Monday 17 July 1972 - Wellington Street Coach Station, Leeds: From left to right - Ribble 900 (ECK 900E) Leyland Leopard/Marshall (dual purpose model) (Worked in from Southport on service X17 and due to return at 1200); East Yorkshire 879 (RKH 879G) also Leyland Leopard/Marshall (dual purpose model) (Worked in on the 0730 service 46 from Hull due to return at 1205); West Yorkshire Bristol MW/Eastern Coachworks (1205 service X35 to Yeadon Airport); a United Automobile Bristol RE/Eastern Coachworks (UHN-G batch) (1155 X99 service to Middlesbrough).

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.

August 1973 - West Yorkshire Road Car Company ERG4 (AWR 401B), a 1964 Eastern Coachworks bodied Bristol RE, seen at Lower Mosley Street Bus Station, Manchester when working between Liverpool and Newcastle on a 'Tyne-Tees'Mersey' Limited Stop Poll service X98.