Green LCT Buses

The Parksider · Post by **The Parksider** » Sun 16 Mar, 2008 10:40 pm

Apologies if it has been done before but my mate an I had an impromtu quiz after I had to confessed to reading an LCT bus timetable from the 1960's at an ephemeraa fair at Pudsey Civic Hall.We each threw numbers at each other and had to "name that route".Prize for anyone who can do.....9, 28 and 45?"name that route"................Now I recall saturday afternoons for the 67 bus from Monkswood Gate to Town. plenty going shopping, plenty off to Elland Road. The buses were every 5 minutes and there was no point running for one because if one dissapeared from the stop down Boggart Hill, you just looked up the road and saw the top of the next one.Years later I went with a mate to the Town and Counry club and we thought for a novelty we'd get a bus from Tinshill top.Bu&&er all buses came for best part of an hour except ones with the lights turned off racing back to town or the bus depot or wherever.

drapesy · Post by **drapesy** » Sun 16 Mar, 2008 10:44 pm

I remember the 45 - it was a strange route that seemed to take for ever. I know it took in Wortley, on Lower Wortley Lane - Kirkstall Bridge Road, Shaw Lane in Headingley and Lidgett Lane in Moortown. exactly where it started and finished I've no idea!!! I think it later becme the 95 - perhaps with a modification to the route?

zip55 · Post by **zip55** » Sun 16 Mar, 2008 10:46 pm

The 45 route would be a shocker to remember, except i used to take it in both directions from Oakwood Lane / Easterley Rd. One up to Stanks, and the other to Cardigan Rd. Headingley.

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Sun 16 Mar, 2008 11:21 pm

The LCT buses that ran to Morley (I can just remember them being blue) were the 52, 53 and 55. The 52 went to Tingley Mill and then up Brtiannia Road and down Fountain Street and back to Meanwood via Elland Road and Meadow Lane, the 53 did the same only it went to up Fountain Street and the other way on Britannia Road. The 55 was run jointly with Yorkshire Woollen, it left Sovereign Street, went up Swinegate, under the Dark Arches and then up Dewsbury Road, Wide Lane, High Street to Bruntcliffe, where it turned around and went back to Leeds.There were also any number of "Duplicates" which ran from the Fountain Inn. Also on Saturdays Football Specials to Elland Road. There were never specials to Headingley. You caught the bus to Headingley next to the Post Office in City Square. The traditional Boxing Day 11-00am kick off against Wakefield was the big fixture for me (I was a Wakey fan in those days - don't ask) unfortunately until the under-soil heating was installed at Headingley it was invariably cancelled.

String o' beads · Post by **String o' beads** » Mon 17 Mar, 2008 12:44 am

The 28 went to Long Causeway I think.

Laz · Post by **Laz** » Mon 17 Mar, 2008 8:36 pm

The Parksider wrote: Apologies if it has been done before but my mate an I had an impromtu quiz after I had to confessed to reading an LCT bus timetable from the 1960's at an ephemeraa fair at Pudsey Civic Hall.We each threw numbers at each other and had to "name that route".Prize for anyone who can do.....9, 28 and 45?"name that route"................Now I recall saturday afternoons for the 67 bus from Monkswood Gate to Town. plenty going shopping, plenty off to Elland Road. The buses were every 5 minutes and there was no point running for one because if one dissapeared from the stop down Boggart Hill, you just looked up the road and saw the top of the next one.Years later I went with a mate to the Town and Counry club and we thought for a novelty we'd get a bus from Tinshill top.Bu&&er all buses came for best part of an hour except ones with the lights turned off racing back to town or the bus depot or wherever. The 45 was "the longest bus ride in the world" - it went fron Stanks through Seacroft and then wound it's way across the northern part of the city - ending up in Farnley or some far off western enclave like that.The 9 was also a long distance jobby - it was the "ring road bus" stating at Whitkirk and going all the way around to Pudsey - ish ( I think)I don't remember the 28 but the 67 was my own oft used bus into Town. The 11.20 pm return on a Friday and Saturday night was always a lively affair and we often had a good old sing song on the top deck.

fevlad · Post by **fevlad** » Mon 17 Mar, 2008 8:42 pm

28 still goes up long causeway

iansmithofotley · Post by **iansmithofotley** » Mon 17 Mar, 2008 10:15 pm

Hi Parksider,Here is the information:Route No. 9 (Ring Road).Ring Road Halton to Ring Road Farsley.Route No. 28 (Central Bus Station to Long Causeway).Eastgate, The Headrow, Woodhouse Lane, Otley Road, Weetwood Lane, Long Causeway. Inwards buses via Cobourg Street and the Merrion Centre.Route No. 45 (Stanks to Wortley).Pendas Way, Stanks Drive, Stanks Lane North, York Road, North Parkway, Seacroft Avenue, Seacroft Crescent, Brooklands Avenue, Bailey’s Lane, North Parkway, Kentmere Avenue, Boggart Hill Drive, Easterly Road, Roundhay Road, Gledhow Valley Road, King Lane, Stonegate Road, Monkbridge Road, Shaw Lane, Otley Road, North Lane, Kirkstall Lane, Bridge Road, Wyther Lane, Armley Ridge Road, Cockshott Lane, Stanningley Road, Armley Ridge Road, Wortley Road, Whingate, Upper Wortley Road, Dixon Lane, Whitehall Road. On reverse route, buses ran from Gledhow Valley Road to Roundhay Road via Harehills Avenue and Harehills Lane and via Pendas Way, Kelmscott Crescent and Kelmscott Green.I won’t accept the prize because I cheated – I have a list of 1960's Leeds Bus Routes in a 1968 edition of Austick's ‘Tellway’.Ian.

electricaldave · Post by **electricaldave** » Tue 18 Mar, 2008 7:43 pm

I remember back in the '80's when they had the cheap al day fare I took a Yorkshire Rider bus that got me all the way from Shipley, Yeadon, Horseforth, right to Seacroft.This bus went in and out of load of little roads and estates along Rawdon RoadIt took absolutely ages, bit I'd had to use it instead of the usual one into Leeds and change because of the time constrain on the dayrover fares, once you were on the bus and the clock changed, you were ok as long as you had a valid ticket for the hour that you purchased it.I've no idea of the bus number, but I never took that route again.

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Tue 18 Mar, 2008 9:48 pm

The Number 9 was balanced by the Number 8 which ran the southern half of the Ring Road Route.As a matter of interest, when did the 45 stop running? I've lived in Seacroft and Swarcliffe for most of my life and don't remember it!The period after deregulation saw all manner of oddball and quirky routes spring up, although many were short lived.The 16 (Bramley - Leeds - Seacroft) was briefly extended out to Barwick in Elmet once an hour, although it didn't last long - the core route remains more or less the same to this day as it was in the 70's.Similarly the 15 (Seacroft - Leeds - Pudsey I think!) was extended at the other end right out to Bradford. Then the Leeds - Seacroft section was dropped although the Leeds - Bradford section remains.I can remember the 11 to Troydale - in the innocent days of my youth that seemed an exotic place a million miles away (until I went there on a Dayrover!)