Huddersfield bus station

53°38′42″N 1°47′10″W / 53.645°N 1.786°W / 53.645; -1.786

Huddersfield
Huddersfield bus Station as viewed from the car park above
General information
LocationUpperhead Row, Huddersfield
Kirklees
Operated byMetro
Bus stands28
Bus operatorsFirst West Yorkshire, Arriva Yorkshire, Team Pennine, Stotts Coaches, stagecoach Manchester, TLC Travel
ConnectionsHuddersfield railway station
(330 yards [300 m])
History
Opened1974

Huddersfield bus station serves the town of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England.

The bus station was opened on Sunday 1 December 1974 and is owned and managed by Metro. It is the busiest bus station in West Yorkshire and is used by more than 33,000 passengers every day.[1][2] The bus station is situated in Huddersfield town centre, underneath the Multi-storey car park. It is bordered by the Ring Road (Castlegate A62) and can be accessed from High Street, Upperhead Row and Henry Street.

There are 25 pick-up and three alighting only stands at the bus station.

Services

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The main operators at the bus station include First West Yorkshire, Arriva Yorkshire and Yorkshire Tiger with other services run by stagecoach Manchester, TLC, team pennine and Stotts Coaches. National Express coaches run nationwide from here. In March 2009, Megabus started to run a coach service, called Megabusplus to London, which involves changing from the coach on to an East Midlands Railway service at East Midlands Parkway.

There are plenty of local services which link Huddersfield with the surrounding areas of the town such as Denby Dale, Golcar, Holmfirth, Lindley, Marsden, Meltham, Milnsbridge, Slaithwaite. In addition to this, there are several services which run to other towns in West Yorkshire such as Batley, Bradford, Brighouse, Cleckheaton, Dewsbury, Elland, Halifax, Hebden Bridge, Heckmondwike, Leeds, Mirfield, Morley and Wakefield, the White Rose Shopping Centre plus the 184 service which links Huddersfield with Oldham.

References

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  1. ^ "Passengers face bus stand changes at Huddersfield Bus Station". Huddersfield Examiner. 1 June 2018. Retrieved 25 February 2019.
  2. ^ Sutcliffe, Robert (30 July 2021). "Huddersfield's 'underwhelming' bus station set for major revamp". YorkshireLive. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
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