Keighley bus station

Keighley
General information
Location	Bow Street, Keighley City of Bradford England
Coordinates	53°52′02″N 1°54′29″W / 53.8673°N 1.9081°W / 53.8673; -1.9081
Operated by	Metro
Bus stands	17
Bus operators	Keighley Bus Company Burnley Bus Company Yorkshire Tiger
Connections	Keighley railway station (440 yards [400 m])
History
Opened	1940

Keighley bus station serves the town of Keighley, West Yorkshire, England. The bus station is owned and managed by Metro.^[1]

History

The bus station is situated in Keighley town centre next to the Airedale Centre and can be accessed from Bow Street and Towngate. The bus station was opened off Lawkholme Crescent in the town in 1940. Bus shelters were added in 1970 after the Airedale Shopping centre opened up on the south side of the bus station in the late 1960s.^[2] The station was re-built in 2002 by Metro.

In the updated Pevsner's guide to West (Riding of) Yorkshire, Peter Leach made note of the jagged roofline and masonry at each end of the building.^[3]

There are 17 stands at the bus station and the main operators are Keighley Bus Company and Burnley Bus Company with other services run by Jackson's of Silsden and Yorkshire Tiger

Services

Buses run from the bus station around the town of Keighley. They also run as far afield as Burnley (extending to Padiham and Accrington until 2011), Skipton (extending to Grassington until 2011), Ilkley (extended to Otley and Leeds Bradford Airport in 2016), Leeds (extending to Wetherby from 1993 to 1997), Bradford and Hebden Bridge (previously Todmorden until 2007).

Previous bus station

Keighley's previous bus station was constructed in 1940 and the bus shelters were added in 1970. It was closed in 2001 to make way for the current bus station which opened in 2002. It was served originally by West Yorkshire Automobile before 1987 and deregulation. After deregulation, it was served by Keighley & District and First Calderdale & Huddersfield. Between 2001 and 2002 buses waited in the surrounding streets whilst the current bus station was being constructed. In 1997 many services were withdrawn these included through services from Bradford to Haworth, Oxenhope and Oakworth.

References

• "Confusion over bus to hospital times". Keighley News. 21 January 2016. Retrieved 31 January 2016.
• Williamson, Dave; Williamson, David; Jenkins, Wyn; Cooke, Peter; Michael Moreton, Keith (2013). Strategic Management and Business Analysis. Routledge. p. 170. ISBN 9781136362736. Retrieved 31 January 2016.
• Else, David; Atkinson, David; Bainbridge, James; Berry, Oliver; Davenport, Fionn (2009). Great Britain. Lonely Planet. p. Yorkshire Dales National Park - 531. ISBN 9781742203416. Retrieved 31 January 2016.
• Croft, David J (9 March 2013). Bradford Transport (From Old Photographs). Amberley Publishing Limited. ISBN 9781445623269. Retrieved 31 January 2016.
• The Rough Guide to Yorkshire. Rough Guides UK. 3 October 2013. p. 328. ISBN 9781409350552. Retrieved 31 January 2016.
• Berkmoes, Ryan Ver; Berry, Oliver; Elliott, Mark; Garwood, Duncan; Ham, Anthony; Maxwell, Virginia; Schulte-Peevers, Andrea; Williams, Nicola; Wilson, Neil (2013). Lonely Planet Western Europe. Lonely Planet. ISBN 9781743217986. Retrieved 31 January 2016.
• The Commercial Motor, Volumes 127-128. the University of Michigan: Temple Press Limited. 1968. p. 47. Retrieved 31 January 2016.
• TRRL Laboratory Report, Issues 976-995. the University of Michigan: Overseas Unit, Transport and Road Research Laboratory. 1981. p. 470. Retrieved 31 January 2016.

External links

• Media related to Keighley bus station at Wikimedia Commons
• Metro's Keighley Bus Station page

This page was last edited on 17 January 2023, at 13:10