Company history

A West Yorkshire story: from Heavy Woollen tramways to Yorkshire Woollen District motorbuses, through NBC and privatisation into the Arriva era.

Overview

Data-led history for West Yorkshire’s Heavy Woollen District — content loading…

Operator lineage

Depots: Beck Lane (Heckmondwike) & Savile Town (Dewsbury)

We’ll expand these to full depot histories (open/close, allocation eras, engineering) as we source precise dates.

Timeline

Sources & notes

We compile details from PSV Circle fleet histories, LRTA/Crich, West Yorkshire Archive Service, Bus Lists on the Web, and contemporary newspapers. Items marked “to‑verify” will be updated with citations as we locate exact dates or references.