Wakefield bus station
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Wakefield bus station serves the city of Wakefield
, West Yorkshire
, England
. The bus station is owned and operated by Arriva Yorkshire
.
The bus station is situated at next to Marsh Way A61
and the city's new market and can be accessed from both Marsh Way and Union Street.
The bus station was rebuilt in 2001 with a main passenger concourse and 24 bus stands.
, First West Yorkshire
, M Travel, Ross Travel and Stagecoach Yorkshire
. National Express
coach services also running nationwide from Wakefield.
Buses run from the bus station around the Wakefield area and run as far a field as Barnsley
, Doncaster
, Selby
, Leeds
, Bradford
, Halifax
, Huddersfield
and Holmfirth
.
The Wakefield freecitybus, operated by Star Travel, connects the bus station with both the Wakefield Westgate
and Kirkgate
railway stations.
The bus services that use Wakefield Bus Station and its Stand Letter are:
(Places in bold are where services terminate)
Notes:
Wakefield
Wakefield is the main settlement and administrative centre of the City of Wakefield, a metropolitan district of West Yorkshire, England. Located by the River Calder on the eastern edge of the Pennines, the urban area is and had a population of 76,886 in 2001....
, West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county within the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England with a population of 2.2 million. West Yorkshire came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972....
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. The bus station is owned and operated by Arriva Yorkshire
Arriva Yorkshire
Arriva Yorkshire is a division of Arriva which operates bus services around West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, East Riding of Yorkshire and the southern areas of North Yorkshire in England.-History:Arriva Yorkshire was formed as a combination of mergers of previous...
.
The bus station is situated at next to Marsh Way A61
A61 road
The A61 is a major trunk road in England. It runs from Derby to Thirsk in North Yorkshire. From Derby, it heads north via Alfreton, Clay Cross, Chesterfield, Sheffield, Barnsley, Wakefield, Leeds, Harrogate and Ripon...
and the city's new market and can be accessed from both Marsh Way and Union Street.
The bus station was rebuilt in 2001 with a main passenger concourse and 24 bus stands.
Services
The main operator at the bus station are Arriva Yorkshire with other services run by Huddersfield Bus CompanyCentrebus Holdings
Centrebus Holdings is a bus company in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. It is a partnership between Arriva and Centrebus, created in May 2008 to purchase both K-Line Travel and Stagecoach Yorkshire's Huddersfield operations.-Stagecoach:...
, First West Yorkshire
First West Yorkshire
First West Yorkshire is the trading name of the four First bus companies serving the area of West Yorkshire, England. It forms part of FirstGroup, a company operating transport services across the British Isles and in North America...
, M Travel, Ross Travel and Stagecoach Yorkshire
Stagecoach Yorkshire
Stagecoach Yorkshire is an operating division of Stagecoach UK Bus.It was formed in 2005 to take over the former Traction Group fleets in Yorkshire by Stagecoach Group, which took over Traction from Frank Carter on 14 December 2005; Yorkshire Traction, Yorkshire Terrier and Barnsley & District....
. National Express
National Express
National Express Coaches, more commonly known as National Express, is a brand and company, owned by the National Express Group, under which the majority of long distance bus and coach services in Great Britain are operated,...
coach services also running nationwide from Wakefield.
Buses run from the bus station around the Wakefield area and run as far a field as Barnsley
Barnsley
Barnsley is a town in South Yorkshire, England. It lies on the River Dearne, north of the city of Sheffield, south of Leeds and west of Doncaster. Barnsley is surrounded by several smaller settlements which together form the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, of which Barnsley is the largest and...
, Doncaster
Doncaster
Doncaster is a town in South Yorkshire, England, and the principal settlement of the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster. The town is about from Sheffield and is popularly referred to as "Donny"...
, Selby
Selby
Selby is a town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. Situated south of the city of York, along the course of the River Ouse, Selby is the largest and, with a population of 13,012, most populous settlement of the wider Selby local government district.Historically a part of the West Riding...
, Leeds
Leeds
Leeds is a city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. In 2001 Leeds' main urban subdivision had a population of 443,247, while the entire city has a population of 798,800 , making it the 30th-most populous city in the European Union.Leeds is the cultural, financial and commercial...
, Bradford
Bradford
Bradford lies at the heart of the City of Bradford, a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, in Northern England. It is situated in the foothills of the Pennines, west of Leeds, and northwest of Wakefield. Bradford became a municipal borough in 1847, and received its charter as a city in 1897...
, Halifax
Halifax, West Yorkshire
Halifax is a minster town, within the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale in West Yorkshire, England. It has an urban area population of 82,056 in the 2001 Census. It is well-known as a centre of England's woollen manufacture from the 15th century onward, originally dealing through the Halifax Piece...
, Huddersfield
Huddersfield
Huddersfield is a large market town within the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire, England, situated halfway between Leeds and Manchester. It lies north of London, and south of Bradford, the nearest city....
and Holmfirth
Holmfirth
Holmfirth is a small town located on the A6024 Woodhead Road in the Holme Valley, within the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. Centred upon the confluence of the Holme and Ribble rivers, Holmfirth is south of Huddersfield and from Glossop. It mostly consists of...
.
The Wakefield freecitybus, operated by Star Travel, connects the bus station with both the Wakefield Westgate
Wakefield Westgate railway station
Wakefield Westgate railway station is the mainline railway station for the city of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England. It is located on the western edge of the main city centre, on the opposite side from Wakefield's other station, Kirkgate.-Services:...
and Kirkgate
Wakefield Kirkgate railway station
Wakefield Kirkgate railway station is a railway station in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. Unlike the nearby Wakefield Westgate railway station, Kirkgate is unstaffed and served mostly by local trains...
railway stations.
The bus services that use Wakefield Bus Station and its Stand Letter are:
(Places in bold are where services terminate)
| No. | |Operator | |Destination | |Stand | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monday to Saturday daytime | Evenings and Sundays | |||
| WCB | Star Travel | FreeCityBus | 1 | - |
| 59 | Stagecoach Yorkshire | Barnsley via Royston | 18 | - |
| Arriva Yorkshire | Royston | - | 18 | |
| 100 | Arriva Yorkshire | Eastmoor | 7 | - |
| Kirkhamgate | 19 | - | ||
| 101 | Arriva Yorkshire | Eastmoor | 7 | - |
| Wrenthorpe | 19 | - | ||
| 102 | Arriva Yorkshire | Portobello | 4 | |
| Healey via Lupset and Ossett | 5 | |||
| 103 | Arriva Yorkshire | Junction 31 Business Park | 19 | - |
| 104 | Arriva Yorkshire | Alverthorpe Alverthorpe Alverthorpe is a suburb of, and former village in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England.-History:After the start of the Industrial Revolution woollen and worsted yarns were spun and woollen and worsted cloth woven in... |
Services 114, 115 | 6 |
| Eastmoor | 7 | |||
| 108 | Arriva Yorkshire | Bottomboat | 191 | - |
| 110 | Arriva Yorkshire | Hall Green via Kettlethorpe | 11 | |
| Leeds City bus station via Outwood | 20 | |||
| 113 | Arriva Yorkshire | Junction 41 Business Park | 231 | - |
| 114 | Arriva Yorkshire | Wrenthorpe | 6 | Service 104 |
| Eastmoor | 7 | |||
| 115 | Arriva Yorkshire | Silkwood Park | 6 | |
| Eastmoor | 7 | |||
| 117 | Arriva Yorkshire | Leeds City bus station via Ossett and White Rose Centre | 8 | |
| 119 120 |
Arriva Yorkshire | Batley via Ossett | 3 | 32 |
| 125 | Ross Travel | Castleford via Wakefied Europort, Castleford and Airedale Magnet | 2 | - |
| 126 127 |
Arriva Yorkshire | Dewsbury via Ossett | 10 | |
| 128 | Arriva Yorkshire | Dewsbury via Horbury, Overton and Grange Moor | 9 | - |
| 145 148 149 150 |
Arriva Yorkshire | Knottingley via Featherstone and Pontefract | 16 | |
| 147 157 |
Arriva Yorkshire | Pontefract via Pinderfields Hospital, Normanton and Featherstone | 2 (147) | 2 (157) |
| 150 | Arriva Yorkshire | Selby via Pontefract, Ferrybridge, Hensall and Brayton - does not serve Knottingley | 16 | - |
| 173 174 |
Arriva Yorkshire | Wetherby via Woodlesford, Garforth, Micklefield (174) and Aberford | 3 | - |
| 175 | Arriva Yorkshire | Castleford via Woodlesford, Garforth and Micklefield | 3 | - |
| 183 | M Travel | Pontefract via Normanton, Castleford and Junction 32 Outlet | 14 | Service 188 to Castleford |
| 184 185 |
Arriva Yorkshire | Pontefract via Normanton, Castleford and Airedale Magnet | 15 | |
| 187 188 |
Arriva Yorkshire | Knottingley (188) via Normanton, Castleford, Airedale Magnet (188) and Ferrybridge (188) | 14 | 14 (188 only) |
| 189 | Arriva Yorkshire | Leeds City bus station via Normanton, Castleford and Methley | 15 | |
| 194 | Arriva Yorkshire | Barnsley via Ryhill, Newstead and Royston | 12 | |
| 195 196 |
Arriva Yorkshire | Hemsworth via Ryhill, Newstead (196) and South Hiendley (195) | 12 | 12 (195 only) |
| 212 | Arriva Yorkshire | Dewsbury via Batley | 3 | |
| 223 | Arriva Yorkshire | South Elmsall via Hemsworth | 13 | Service 496 |
| 231 232 |
Huddersfield Bus Company | Huddersfield via Horbury, Netherton (231), Middlestown (232), Flockton, Emley (232), Grange Moor (231) and Waterloo | 9 | - |
| Arriva Yorkshire | - | 93 | ||
| First West Yorkshire | - | 94 | ||
| 253 | Arriva Yorkshire | Bradford via Dewsbury, Mirfield and Cleckheaton | 8 | Service 278 to Mirfield |
| 254 | Arriva Yorkshire | Leeds City bus station via Dewsbury, Heckmondwike, Gomersal and Cleckheaton | 8 | Service 278 to Dewsbury |
| 278 | Arriva Yorkshire | Halifax via Dewsbury, Mirfield, Brighouse and Elland | 8 | |
| 425 427 |
Arriva Yorkshire | Bradford via Morley and Drighlington | 22 | |
| 435 436 |
Huddersfield Bus Company | Holmfirth via Clayton West (436), Scissett, Skelmanthorpe (435), Denby Dale and New Mill | 17 | |
| 443 | Arriva Yorkshire | Woolley Village via Crigglesthorne and Hall Green | 17 | |
| 444 | Arriva Yorkshire | Hall Green via Calder Grove | 17 | Service 443 |
| Leeds City Square via Pinderfields Hospital and Rothwell | 21 | |||
| 446 | Arriva Yorkshire | Leeds Infirmary Street via Pinderfields Hospital and Woodlesford | 21 | |
| 481 | Arriva Yorkshire | Leeds City bus station via East Ardsley, Middleton and Hunslet | 19 | |
| 485 | Arriva Yorkshire | South Elmsall via Ackworth | 13 | |
| 496 | Arriva Yorkshire | Doncaster via Hemsworth, South Elmsall and Upton | 13 | |
| 870 | Arriva Yorkshire | Ilkley via Outwood, Leeds, Headingley and Otley | Service 110 to Leeds | 233 |
| X41 | Arriva Yorkshire | Leeds General Infirmary via Pinderfields Hospital and Lofthouse | 235 | Service 110 to Leeds |
| Coaches | National Express | National Express coach services | 246 | |
Notes:
| 1 | Weekdays only |
|---|---|
| 2 | Monday-Saturday evenings only |
| 3 | Sunday daytime only |
| 4 | Evenings only |
| 5 | Weekday mornings only |
| 6 | Coach services stop at stand U1 on Union Street when bus station is closed |