Brighouse bus station

Bus station in West Yorkshire, England

  • First Calderdale & Huddersfield
  • First Bradford
  • Arriva Yorkshire
  • TLC Travel
ConnectionsBrighouse railway station (660 yards [600 m])HistoryOpenedMay 2009

Brighouse bus station serves the town of Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England. The bus station is owned and managed by West Yorkshire Metro. The bus station is situated in the Brighouse Town Centre and could be accessed from Gooder Street and Ganny Road. The current station was opened from 10 May 2009 on the site of the previous one that dates back from the 1970s.

The new bus station cost £2.38 million and provides passengers with more comfortable and safer enclosed waiting areas, new seating and lighting, real time electronic passenger information, 24-hour CCTV surveillance and additional footpaths and pedestrian access [1] It has six stands.[2]

Services

The main operators that use the station are First West Yorkshire's Bradford and Calderdale & Huddersfield operations, Arriva Yorkshire and Yorkshire Tiger. National Express services go from here daily south to London Victoria Coach Station.

Buses run from the bus station to Bradford, Cleckheaton, Dewsbury, Elland, Halifax and Huddersfield. There used to be a service to Leeds and Saltaire but both were cut.

References

  1. ^ Brighouse bus station now open - Metro (WYPTE) - May 2009[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ "Brighouse Bus Station". West Yorkshire Metro. Retrieved 1 April 2023.
  • Metro's Brighouse bus station page
  • Brighouse bus station (picture from 1985) - geograph SE1422
  • £2.38m bus station ready for business - Brighouse Echo

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