Huddersfield bus station

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Huddersfield
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Huddersfield bus Station as viewed from the car park above
Location Upperhead Row, Huddersfield
Kirklees
Operated by Metro
Bus stands 28
Bus operators First West Yorkshire, Arriva Yorkshire, Yorkshire Tiger, Tiger Blue, Stotts Coaches, First Greater Manchester
Connections Huddersfield railway station (300 metres)
History
Opened 1974

Huddersfield bus station serves the town of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England.

The bus station was opened on Sunday 1 December 1974 and is owned and managed by the Metro (West Yorkshire PTE). It is now the busiest bus station in West Yorkshire. The bus station is situated in Huddersfield town centre, underneath the Multi-storey car park. It is bordered by the Ring Road (Castlegate A62) and can be accessed from High Street, Upperhead Row and Henry Street.

There are 25 pick-up and three alighting only stands at the bus station.

Services

The main operators at the bus station include First West Yorkshire, Arriva Yorkshire and Yorkshire Tiger with other services run by First Greater Manchester, Tiger Blue and Stotts Coaches. National Express coaches run nationwide from here.

In March 2009, Megabus started to run a coach service, called Megabusplus to London, which involves changing from the coach on to an East Midlands Trains service at East Midlands Parkway.

There are plently of local services which link Huddersfield with the surrounding areas of the town such as Denby Dale, Golcar, Holmfirth, Lindley, Marsden, Meltham, Milnsbridge, Slaithwaite. In addition to this, there are several services which run to other towns in West Yorkshire such as Batley, Bradford, Brighouse, Cleckheaton, Dewsbury, Elland, Halifax, Hebden Bridge, Heckmondwike, Leeds, Mirfield, Morley and Wakefield, the White Rose Shopping Centre plus the 184 service which links Huddersfield with Manchester and Oldham in Greater Manchester.

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