A Lot Has Happened Since GBBTT
fbb is not clever enough to guarantee historical accuracy but only seeks to give a rough background on the First Bus (ex Yorkshire Rider) X84 from 2000 to the present day.
The next piece of documentation is from 2013. There are now three buses an hour from Leeds ...
... xx15 to Otley only, xx35 to Ilkley and xx55 all the way to Skipton. It is clearer on the timetable to Leeds.
Sometime in this process one journey an hour was diverted via Pool-in-Wharfedale (usually simply "Pool" in PTE-speak) ....
... veering off the A65 Leeds Road. Despite route branded buses for the X84 ...
... no livery adjustment was made for the arrival of the X85. This resistance to change was probably prophetic as the revision was short lived. It was replaced by a few occasional journeys numbered 85 ...
... running from Pool to Leeds only.
They didn't last either!
As the map above shows, there was also a change for Skipton journeys. Instead of running hourly through from Leeds, Ilkley to Skipton was served by route 784.
The end result of all this faffing about would appear to have been a simple half hourly X84 between Leeds and Ilkley (NOT via Pool).
Needless to say, during the life of the X84, there have been plenty of livery changes.
Original Barbie ...
... or later "Leeds" with city buiding images ...
... begat an X84 logo with similar graphics incorporated into a large body side route number.
We have already seen a hint of First's express/long distance blue and gold concoction. But it looked smart on the X84 and much better than its predecessor.
The most recent on-line pictures of the X84 show "Leeds City" buses (in green) serving the A65 corridor ...
... with their various city route coloured wedges and diagonals.
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Green was, at least, the colour for local buses via Headingley.
But it was all a bit of a mess over the years. What the travelling public wants; what the travelling public needs; what the travelling public doesn't get ...
... is consistency!
P.S. In First's early pre-Barbie days you could even buses in First's Bradford livery on the X84!
And thus, on Friday we see the antithesis of consistency along the Headingey corridor and spilling over into the tradition service to Otley.
It was not a pretty sight!
Next Expensive blog : Thurs 21st Nov
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