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

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Huddersfield
Huddersfield bus Station as viewed from the car park above
General information
Location	Upperhead Row, Huddersfield Kirklees
Operated by	Metro
Bus stands	28
Bus operators	First West Yorkshire, Arriva Yorkshire, Team Pennine, Stotts Coaches, First Greater Manchester, TLC Travel
Connections	Huddersfield railway station (330 yards [300 m])
History
Opened	1974

The bus station was opened on Sunday 1 December 1974 and is owned and managed by Metro. It is the busiest bus station in West Yorkshire and is used by more than 33,000 passengers every day.[1][2] 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, TLC, 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 Railway service at East Midlands Parkway. There are plenty 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 Oldham.

Huddersfield bus stations aims To encourage more people to use public transport in Huddersfield and the wider region, these proposals will seek to meet the following objectives:Provide an enhanced customer experience for Huddersfield Bus Station users by upgrading facilities and improving user safety.   Transform the interior and exterior spaces of the bus station to make it a modern and attractive gateway to Huddersfield. Make Huddersfield Bus Station more accessible for all users and better connected with the town centre to increase numbers of people travelling by bus. Make the bus station a greener, more energy efficient and environmentally friendly facility by adding solar panels and increasing green landscaping. Improve the access routes to the bus station to make walking and crossing roads safer for people. Make the bus station a more secure facility, to improve personal safety and encourage more people to travel by bus.[3]

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Huddersfield bus station.

• Metro's Huddersfield bus station page
• Huddersfield Bus Station and Multi Storey Car Park - Geograph