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| Parent | Go-Ahead Group |
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| Founded | May 2024 |
| Commenced operation | 23 February 2025 |
| Headquarters | Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire, England |
| Service area | West Yorkshire |
| Service type | Tendered bus services |
| Alliance | East Yorkshire Fourway Coaches |
| Routes | 4 (July 2025) |
| Depots | 1 |
| Fleet | 3 (February 2025) |
| Fuel type | Diesel |
Go-Ahead West Yorkshire is a bus operator running tendered services in the metropolitan county of West Yorkshire, England. It is a subsidiary of the Go-Ahead Group, founded in late 2024 as a part of the East Yorkshire group of coach operators and based at the Fourway Coaches depot in Cleckheaton.
History
[edit]In May 2024, the Go-Ahead Group announced it had purchased the operations of four independent coach companies in Yorkshire and County Durham, with one of these being Fourway Coaches of Cleckheaton. The four coach companies were integrated as independent subsidiaries of Go-Ahead's East Riding of Yorkshire bus and coach operator East Yorkshire. Go-Ahead's purchase of Fourway Coaches took the group into the West Yorkshire bus operating market for the first time, ahead of the rollout of Weaver Network bus franchising across the county's bus network from March 2027 onwards.[1][2]
During late 2024, social media accounts for a new bus operator named Go-Ahead West Yorkshire were set up. It was later announced that Go-Ahead West Yorkshire had been awarded the tender to operate service 571, running between Halifax and Shelf and previously operated by Arriva Yorkshire, from 23 February 2025. Go-Ahead intends for the new operation to be competitive in future tendering for bus franchise contracts across West Yorkshire.[3]
From 21 July 2025, Go-Ahead West Yorkshire will commence operations on two former Station Coaches services: service 112/112A, running between Batley and Ossett, and service 213, running between Dewsbury and Morley.[4]
Fleet
[edit]Go-Ahead West Yorkshire launched in February 2025 with a fleet of MCV Evolution bodied Volvo B7RLEs inherited from East Yorkshire, which are painted in a white, blue and green route-branded livery.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Deakin, Tim (23 May 2024). "Procters Coaches and Fourway among latest Go-Ahead purchases". routeone. Retrieved 13 January 2025.
- ^ Deakin, Tim (14 March 2024). "Bus franchising in West Yorkshire formally adopted as reform path". routeone. Retrieved 13 January 2025.
- ^ a b "Go-Ahead to enter West Yorkshire bus market ahead of franchising". routeone. 13 January 2025. Retrieved 13 January 2025.
- ^ "Go-Ahead West Yorkshire!". East Yorkshire. 15 February 2025. Retrieved 11 July 2025.
External links
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