Bus UK Yelloway Motor Services of Rochdale.

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About Bus UK Yelloway Motor Services of Rochdale.

Yelloway Motor Services. A once proud,respected and well established company .
Who found deregulation too much and disappeared off the bus & coach scene.
A very sad end to such a fine company !!

Yelloway Motor Services Ltd, often shortened to just Yelloway, was a coach company that was based in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England. It operated from 1932 to 1988, and only ever bought British manufactured coaches, predominantly the AEC Reliance. It was a very popular coach company in the North-West, running scheduled coach services to the South West, East Anglia, North Wales and the North West, particularly Blackpool and Fleetwood. The manager of the company was Hubert Allen. The main office, bus station and maintenance garage were situated on Weir Street, Rochdale, Greater Manchester.

Some of the Yelloway Express services.

X5 Rochdale- Torbay
X9 Middleton-Blackpool
X15 Middleton-Torbay
X25 Rochdale-Plymouth
X29 Middleton- Blackpool
X35 Bury-Torbay
X39 Middleton - Blackpool
X41 Rochdale- Bournemouth
X42 Rochdale- Portsmouth
X43 Rochdale-Ilfracombe
X44 Rochdale-Newquay
X49 Glossop- Fleetwood
X50 Oldham- Morecambe
X59 Oldham- Blackpool
X65 Colne- Torbay
X69 Oldham Fleetwood
X79- Oldham- Fleetwood
X89 Oldham- Blackpool
X99 Rochdale- Blackpool.
Service
70 Rochdale-Ipswich
77 Blackburn- Clacton
78 Blackpool- Clacton .
The North Wales service did not have a route number. These are the pre National express routes that i can remember. To assist my failing memory I consulted a copy of "The Yellow Road" but found some mistakes in its list of routes. You have to bear in mind that some of these services only ran at peak Summer and the Fylde Coast services criss crossed North Manchester. The odd one was a joint service like the N Wales and X50 but I have included them . Some like X15 would only operate as a feeder say to Hanley until the real peak season started when it would go through to Paignton. I will try to answer any questions anyone may have about individual services but I can only go back to the mid seventies by which time services like the London's were history.
With Thanks to "weir st"
The Alfreton-Derby-London 'Derbyshire Express' service MX4. Yelloway worked this service jointly with Trent, Midland General and United Counties

Yelloway Lancashire-London services timetable 1973

The timetable for the 1973 Yelloway London services which operated between Easter and late October (also for a period over Christmas). The services comprised the ‘basic service’ as we referred to the Blackpool-Manchester-London day service (service M) and the Haslingden-Rochdale-Manchester feeder service (service X); and the Rochdale and Manchester to London motorway express ‘flyer’ down to London in the mornings returning from the capital at 1730 (service A). The overnight services were of a similar pattern to the day services M and X - although both night services lettered service N) - operating nightly during the main summer period but otherwise on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. There were additional services during the main summer period on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays including an afternoon Rochdale-Manchester-London ‘flyer’ south (returning north the following days) (service C); and a Saturdays only ‘flyer’ (in both directions) between Blackpool/St Annes/Preston and London (service B). The newest addition was the Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays (in both directions) between Bacup/Bury/Bolton and London which started on 25 May that year (service 1R). Rather late in the scheme of things the overall London services became numbered service 1 supplemented with the appropriate service letter (1M, 1X etc) but ‘1R’ was the only one that seemed to get mentioned thus in the timetable.
Thanks to Spoddendale