Sightseeing Bus in Leeds

Riponian · Post by **Riponian** » Mon 24 May, 2010 1:41 pm

Trojan- the weather wasn't bad when I went. If not K9 and me would have stayed on dry land.As for throwing up, you must be user of the last 36 on a Friday night then?Noticed the Sightseeing bus did get mentioned on the news. They had the weather for it.

buffaloskinner · Post by **buffaloskinner** » Mon 24 May, 2010 5:19 pm

Well here are the timetables for the bus and the boat, if you really want to go on the triphttp://www.yorkshire.com/features/2010/may/lee ... ightseeing

DOBBO · Post by **DOBBO** » Mon 24 May, 2010 8:07 pm

After the introduction of free bus passes for pensioners (can't remember when) the old number 9 route which did the ring road in its entirety was as good as a sightseeing run as you could get - in fact if you were trying to use it on a sunday getting a seat was damn difficult

pyramar · Post by **pyramar** » Wed 09 Jun, 2010 1:38 pm

Leeds City Transport ran sightseeing tours in the 1960s. There were two main tours: Roundhay Park & Temple Newsam was one tour, the second was Adel Church & Kirkstall Abbey. These were operated by single deckers though LCT also owned one coach (an amzing 37 seater which i once hired). Its limited destination blind included Sighteeing Tour No1 to Sightseeing Tour No6 plus City Tour but you never saw it change from just reading 'Leeds City Transport'LCT had an arrangement with Bradford City Transport which also ran similar sightseeing tours. Lister Park & Cartwright Hall was one of theirs and Bolling Hall was another. LCT were able to run sighteeing tours to these Bradford attractions and - reciprocally - Bradford City Transport ran tours from Bradford to the two Leeds destinations mentioned earlier using Bradford's (very rare and few) single deckers.All thse tours ran once a week in July and August.Additionally, LCT ran City Tours on certain bank holidays. These left Central Bus Station by ordinary double deckers and the route of these tours changed year by year. I remember going on one. A line of buses were parked up Marsh Lane waiting to be summoned into the Bus Station platform E as the previous ones filled up. These tours were a very popular way to see the city.With regard to the sightseeing tour of 2010, it's a shame that this takes precedence over a proper service to Temple Newsam which is a great city amenity denied to the public transport user. So is Lotherton Hall for that matter which featured in later sightseeing tours during the 70s and 80s