Parent Craig Temple Service type Bus services Fleet 24 | Headquarters Borough of Harrogate Founded 2002 | |
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Service area North Yorkshire
West Yorkshire Destinations Harrogate, Otley, York and Wetherby Website www.connexionsbuses.com Profiles | ||
Connexionsbuses is a bus operator based in Borough of Harrogate.
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History
Harrogate Coach Travel was established in 2002 by Craig and Julie Temple to operate local services in the York area, to Ripon via Great Hammerton, before expanding to operate tendered services for North Yorkshire County Council and the West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive.
Harrogate Coach Travel also operated the X54 service from York to Harrogate, but that service was withdrawn in August 2010, which left the X52 and X53 services to Ilkley and Guiseley as their only Harrogate services.
In March 2011, the business was rebranded as Connexionsbuses.
In April 2011, route X70 was introduced between Harrogate and Wetherby and several local services in Harrogate under contract from North Yorkshire County Council.
At the same time, the North Yorkshire contract to run buses between York and Ripon was lost, and Harrogate Coach Travel commenced operating joint services from York to Ripon and Wetherby in partnership with Eddie Brown Tours.
In August 2013 Connexionsbuses commenced operating routes 780 Knaresborough - Wetherby and 923 Otley - Tadcaster under contract to the West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive, although in late 2016 these services were transferred to Transdev Keighley.
Services
Connexionsbuses operate services to York, Boroughbridge, Ripon, Guiseley, Ilkley, Otley, Knaresborough and Wetherby. From August 2010, the company expanded more in the Ilkley and Otley areas of West Yorkshire, when they take over the Ilkley and Otley local services from First West Yorkshire and the 940 service to Holt Park from TLC Travel. The company started more services in the Wetherby area in April 2011, linking the town to Harrogate and York. Late 2013 connexions buses took over services 780 from Wetherby to Knaresborough and 923 from Otley to Tadcaster. Late April 2014 connexions buses services 104/110/111/112 where replaced by X4 to Wedderburn X6 to Pannal Ash X6a to Harlow Carr and X12 to Duchy Road all from Harrogate. When Eddie Browns collapsed connexions stood in on the 142/143 service until January 5th. Then the service was taken over by Transdev York, they also used tp operate the 56/57 Harrogate-Ripon/roecliffe which is now run by Transdev Harrogate.
Fleet
In June 2015 the company has 42 buses not all are operational.