Yorkshire Bus Operations
Yorkshire Bus Operations
First South Yorkshire
Ahead of service changes next weekend, the entire batch of Streetdecks at Rotherham have had their 'X78 Steel Link' headrests replaced with plain blue leather ones as they will no longer be allocated to the X78. They will instead be used on the new X1, for which 15 will be branded as 'Steel Link' in a similar style to the 'Pulse' branding in Leeds and the 'SimpliCity' brand in Glasgow. So far treated is 35135.
Transdev Yorkshire
Metro contract changes in October will see Transdev take over operation of service 948 (Eccleshill Hospital - Apperley Bridge Rail Station), 949 (Apperley Bridge Station - Thorpe Edge Circular) and 967 (Leeds Brand Airport - Otley - Menston) from TLC (however the 948/9 are to be reduced to peak-time operation only), and services 960 (Ilkley - Ben Ryhdding), 961 (Ilkley - Hebers Ghyll), 962 (Ilkley - Otley) and 964 (Otley - Cambridge Estate Circular) from Connexions.
TLC
Despite losing the 948/9/67 to Transdev, the company retain the tenders for the Heddon Bridge and Todmorden local services for 3 years, for which new vehicles are to be acquired for.
First West Yorkshire
13 Scania L94UB/Wright Solars are transferring into the operation from elsewhere - 7 from the now-closed Lowland area of East Scotland for Bramley to replace Volvo B7TL/Alexander ALX400s to Halifax for school work, and the 6 ex-Reading Bus examples from Kernow also to Bramley to replace the remaining B6BLEs and one of the older Scania.