Yorkshire Tiger discussion

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Yorkshire Tiger has registered a 502 Keighley to Halifax from the end of August. I'll believe it when I see it - the current 504 is registered as Keighley to Halifax but only runs Halifax - Denholme.
There's a brief report in the local paper about it.

Return of regular Keighley-Halifax buses welcomed

THE IMPENDING return of a regular bus service between Keighley and Halifax has been welcomed by local politicians.

www.keighleynews.co.uk

THE IMPENDING return of a regular bus service between Keighley and Halifax has been welcomed by local politicians.

Bradford Council Conservative Group this week described the route, which was withdrawn several years ago, as valuable for people getting to jobs and visiting relatives.

Mike Ellis is a councillor representing Bingley Rural, whose villages Denholme, which the bus will travel through. He said the service was due to be reinstated in September.
He said: "My Conservative colleagues and I have campaigned for its reinstatement since the Keighley-Halifax bus route was withdrawn and we have been very heartened in recent times as it has been seriously looked at as a proposal.

[...]

"When it became apparent that the Government was looking to support withdrawn routes with those benefits, we hoped that they could be persuaded that a link between Keighley and Halifax fitted the criteria."

 

[Tetchytyke]

Yorkshire Tiger has registered a 502 Keighley to Halifax from the end of August. I'll believe it when I see it

Fingers crossed, perhaps Transdev dropping the 67 to hourly is the opening Tiger wanted?

 

[Deerfold]

Fingers crossed, perhaps Transdev dropping the 67 to hourly is the opening Tiger wanted?

The newspaper article suggests it's a supported service.

 

[Deerfold]

There's some times for the Keighley - Halifax service online. I suspect they're not quite right.

bustimes.org/services/502-halifax-keighley

Looks to run hourly from Halifax from 0555 to 1655 or 1725 (I suspect only one of those two will run on any given day).

I'd be surprised if there was actually a Sunday service and I think that NS and SO services are both showing for every day. It looks to start nice and early. Good to carry on long enough to provide an evening peak service, but a shame there's no late evening service.

It will serve Cullingworth. It will also serve all the side roads the current 504 serves, so it's quite a bit slower than the old direct 502.

Disappointingly, most hours it looks to run just a couple of minutes off the 67 where the routes are the same. Most hours, the 502 leaves Denholme a minute after the 67 with both services due in Keighley at the same time, with the 67 leaving Keighley 5 minutes before the 502.

Unless of course the 67 is to see a timetable change...

Edit: if the 67 goes back to its pre-Covid timetable there'll be a 25/35 minutes gap out of Keighley, but a 5/55 minute gap going in.

 

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Times for the 502 have stabilised.

No Sunday Service.

Monday to Friday from Halifax 0555 hourly to 1355, 1522, 1555, 1725
Monday to Friday from Keighley 0619 (from Denholme) 0650, 0750, 0855 hourly to 1455, 1620, 1700, 1825

Saturday from Halifax 0755 hourly to 1655
Saturday from Keighley 0855 hourly to 1755


Other changes to Tiger's times appearing on bustimes.org suggest tightening belts. Various very early or late evening trips disappearing on 20, 22, 561/562, 577.