Trams & Buses
Brighouse

This Foldout looks at some aspects of transport, trams, trolley-buses and buses in and around Brighouse, Rastrick, Bailiff Bridge, Hove Edge, and Hipperholme.

The Brighouse and Bailiff Bridge districts were served by tram services from Halifax, from Huddersfield, and from Bradford via Odsal Top.

The different track widths prevented the Brighouse services linking directly with the services to and from Bradford and Huddersfield.

• The tram service ran from Halifax to Brighouse terminated by the Brighouse Liberal Club. The route converted to buses in May 1931
• The service from Brighouse to Bailiff Bridge began on 13th October 1904.

  Passengers travelling from Brighouse to Bradford had to travel to Bailiffe Bridge and change trams.

  The Brighouse-Bailiff Bridge section closed in March 1929. This was the first local line to close

• The tram service from Bradford, Odsal Top to Bailiff Bridge began on March 1913 The last tram ran on June 1944
• The tram service from Huddersfield to Brighouse began in 1923. It terminated just south of the George corner in Brighouse.

  Passengers travelling from Halifax to Huddersfield had to disembark at the George corner in Brighouse, cross to the other terminus and change trams.

  Trolley buses replaced the trams in 1940.

  Buses replaced the trolley buses in 1955

Some other related entries

John Herbert Lacy Baldwin Bradford & Shelf Tramways Company Brighouse Bus Station Calder Bus Service Halifax & District Tramways Company Halifax Bus Station Halifax Corporation Tramways Halifax Corporation Tramways Act [1897] Halifax Corporation Tramways Club Halifax Omnibus & Cab Company Limited Halifax Tram Strike Halifax Tramways Depot Halifax Tramways Male Voice Choir Hebble Bus Company Mile Cross

North Bridge Tram Accident [1906] Prescott fountain, Halifax Pye Nest Tram Disaster Michael Holroyd Smith Frederick Spencer Benjamin Stott Todmorden Bus Station Todmorden Buses : A Century of Service Trams & buses: Brighouse Trams & buses: Halifax Trams & buses: Hebden Bridge Trams & buses: Sowerby Bridge Trams & buses: Todmorden Tramways building, Halifax Trolley-bus

This & associated entries use material contributed by David Nortcliffe

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